Liberia and Trusted Computing

Posted by Ken Y-N on September 14th, 2009 at 03:23pm

"It’s not very often I write about Liberia" is probably the understatement of the year, but I’ll break my blogging duck regarding that country by telling you about CENTINOL, a proposal from Mr Darren Wilkins to enhance the national security of Liberia through information technology.

The trusted computing aspect appears here:

In Information security, three things are critical: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA). These areas will be addressed when using the proposed Web services. Addressing them would require security models that include new technologies and mechanisms in transport and application layers security. Information leakage in organizations is also a mundane problem that Information Security professionals often encounter. For security organizations that may have sensitive information, this is crucial, especially where the exchange and sharing of information to accomplish tasks is concerned. CENTINOL also addresses this problem by instituting mechanisms using trusted computing technologies both at hardware and application levels.

The above paragraph doesn’t really explain anything new, but it’s nice to see that trusted computing is not just restricted to developed nations.

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