October 2nd, 2010 at 02:24pm Under TNC
I’m a bit baffled by exactly what the benefit is regarding the recent announcement by Triumfant that they have worked with Juniper Networks to integrate TNC into SCAP. I’ve read the article twice and followed all the links, but I’m sadly not much the wiser! Perhaps this is the key: It may sound elemental, but [...]
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October 2nd, 2010 at 02:06pm Under TNC
There’s been an update to the Trusted Network Connect workgroup’s IF-MAP (Interface for Metadata Access Points) protocol to add a new notify feature, according to a post on the official Trusted Computing Group blog. Some of the things being done with the specification are integrating network authentication with physical presence, tracking IT assets, and integrating [...]
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October 1st, 2010 at 04:15pm Under Storage
The official Trusted Computing Group blog recently published a handy list of the various drives, both traditional and solid state, that support the full disk encryption Opal standard from the TCG, plus software packages that help you manage the drives.
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October 1st, 2010 at 04:09pm Under Storage
An interesting bit of news from itBusiness.ca has been that Seagate’s Momentus range of self-encrypting hard drives have been awarded FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 certification, meaning that they can now sell these Trusted Computing Group Opal-compliant drives to US and Canadian federal agencies and other governmental bodies that require FIPS certification on the [...]
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September 29th, 2010 at 04:09pm Under TPM
I’m following the Google Chromium OS issue database to try to find out what they are up to regarding their new OS and trusted computing, so I was amused to see this entry today: Currently the scary boot screen says "This copy of Chrome OS is untrusted. Press SPACE to begin recovery." Sumit pointed out [...]
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September 29th, 2010 at 04:02pm Under TPM
A move by PricewaterhouseCoopers away from software-based certificates to Trusted Platform Module hardware-based certificates was reported on by Computerworld. They are in the progress of migrating around 150,000 users, helped by Wave System’s management tools to handle turning on the TPMs and provisioning certificates, etc. From a cost point of view, there’s this interesting figure: [...]
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September 29th, 2010 at 03:46pm Under Advocacy
This month Wave Systems have published four videos, a white paper and a case study on Bitpipe.com on various TPM-related topics, namely: Trusted Computing: What the Future Looks Like Trusted Computing: Deploying in a Mixed Environment Trusted Computing: How The Government Is Leading Adoption Trusted Computing: Considerations for Deploying in the Enterprise Network Security: How [...]
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September 28th, 2010 at 04:01pm Under Advocacy
Computerworld recently reported on the recent NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition in Orlando, in particular about how a slow accreditation process is causing problems. In a very detailed article many of the advances in trusted computing for the National Security Agency are outlined, but as Bill Ross from General Dynamics pointed out: "The rapidly [...]
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September 27th, 2010 at 03:55pm Under General
There was a quite amusing article from Ellen Messmer of Network World, who attended the NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition at Florida as a member of the press, and although she was only allowed to attend basically one of the three days, she managed to get a ticket to an evening party, only to [...]
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September 27th, 2010 at 03:49pm Under General
There was a bunch of posts to the TCG official blog regarding the recent NSA Trusted Computing Conference held in Orlando, Florida. Here is a recap: In the Exhibit Area TCG In Action part 1 and part 2 Day 2 of TCG in Action Finally, a panel discussion recap I wish I could have found [...]
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