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March 24th, 2008 at 01:23pm
Under TCG
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) official blog recently described events at the Data Protection Summit in Irvine, CA, held on March 11th to 13th 2008. Around 300 people including enterprise IT, consultants, and vendors were in attendance. One particular focus of the TCG activities was the Mobile Encryption day, where the majority of speakers had [...]
Continue Reading TCG participates in the Data Protection Summit, Irvine, CA
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By Ken Y-N
March 16th, 2008 at 10:10pm
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The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is offering a free half-day set of workshops at the upcoming RSA Conference 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on the 7th of April 2008. Various TCG workgroup chairs will be on hand to discuss their work, along with companies building solutions based on trusted computing, such as [...]
Continue Reading Hands-on workshop on TPM at RSA Conference 2008
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By Ken Y-N
March 16th, 2008 at 03:01pm
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This article mentions the TCG only at the very end, but I thought this was an interesting develoment worthy of reporting. The current issue for intelligence analysts is that to maintain security between multiple tasks and networks and to prevent data leakage, they need one computer per network, filling up their desks with vast quantities [...]
Continue Reading NSA, IBM and General Dynamics and classified data
Tags: general dynamics, ibm, nsa
By Ken Y-N
March 12th, 2008 at 03:42pm
Under TCG
Trusted Computing is a real alphabet soup, as a recent article discussing installing NAC, Network Access Control, in corporations for enforcing security policies demonstrated. The options are TNC, the Trusted Network Connect standard from TCG, the Trusted Computing Group, versus the NEA (Network Endpoint Assessment) from IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), versus Microsoft’s NAP (Network [...]
Continue Reading NAC and TNC
Tags: nac, TNC
By Ken Y-N
March 11th, 2008 at 03:05pm
Under TCG+ TPM
The Trusted Computing Group recently posted to their official blog a short reply to an attack on BitLocker discovered by Princeton University, the EFF, and Wind River Systems. In order to clarify any confusion about the role of the TPM and its security, we have published a new document on our website. The full story [...]
Continue Reading TCG, Princeton, EFF, and BitLocker
Tags: bitlocker, eff, princeton, TCG
By Ken Y-N
March 11th, 2008 at 03:05pm
Under TCG
CNN recently reported on a report from the Aberdeen Group on Trusted Computing, specifically how companies deploying applicatons that use TPM chips show better grasp of compliance, security governance, and risk management. They say: In contrast [to traditional security solutions], trusted computing solutions are based on a “high assurance” model, where the general approach is [...]
Continue Reading Aberdeen Group on Trusted Computing
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By Ken Y-N