April 30th, 2010 at 04:42pm
Under TNC
The official Trusted Computing Group blog recently announced that the certification program for Trusted Network Connect is now up and running. The first products to get certified are two devices from Juniper Networks and the TNC@FHH open source implementation of the TNC protocol. I think it’s great from not just a purely technical viewpoint that [...]
Continue Reading TNC certification program announced
Tags: juniper, tnc@fhh
By Ken Y-N
April 26th, 2010 at 04:24pm
Under Storage
A recent press release from Origin Storage announced the release of their Enigma SED (Self-Encrypting Drive), which is based around an Opal-compliant 2.5" hard drive from Toshiba with some added-value on top that doesn’t seem to be described too clearly. I think it is that they also provide cloning software to allow existing drives to [...]
Continue Reading Enigma Self-Encrypting Drive announced
Tags: enigma, opal, origin storage
By Ken Y-N
April 23rd, 2010 at 03:52pm
Under General
An article from TMCnet.com (translated from the Chinese source, it seems) discussed the growth in the Chinese security market, describing a predicted growth of 21.5% on average over the next three years. The growth sectors were listed as: [M]obile Internet security, mobile cloud computing security, trusted computing, trusted network, security authentication, security management, data security, [...]
Continue Reading Information security market in China to grow by over 20% annually
Tags: china
By Ken Y-N
April 23rd, 2010 at 03:38pm
Under General
A report from Vivek Kunda, the USA’s Chief Information Officer, regarding the release of new FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) guidance, was published on the Gov Monitor web site. Although the article says that this guidance was published on the same day as the column, there’s no link and Google doesn’t return anything useful. [...]
Continue Reading Guidance for FISMA compliance issues
Tags: fisma, gov monitor
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2010 at 04:49pm
Under General
I picked up an interesting post about a new service from Beyond Oblivion Inc, which will offer social networking plus unlimited access to Digital Rights Managed music. There are two backers announced, providing a total of $10 million in funding; first is Allen & Co, an investment bank that specialises in the entertainment business, and [...]
Continue Reading Beyond Oblivion – another new DRM-protected music service
Tags: beyond oblivion, drm, intertrust
By Ken Y-N
April 21st, 2010 at 04:20pm
Under TNC
The Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect working group held their fifth annual plugfest, where fourteen TNC implementations were tested over three days to see how well they played together. Read the linked full report on the TCG web site to see how they all got on.
Continue Reading TNC’s latest plugfest report
Tags: plugfest
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 04:13pm
Under Virtualisation
The curiously-named ElasticVapor blog from Reuven Cohen talked about his company, Enomaly, launching their ECP (perhaps Enomaly Cloud Platform) HAE (High Assurance Edition). The article describes the platform helps establish a trusted cloud platform by doing the following: The end customer uses Enomaly’s ECP HAE client, which uses our patented technology to verify the integrity [...]
Continue Reading Enomaly ECP HAE for Trusted Cloud Computing
Tags: cloud computing, enomaly, remote attestation
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2010 at 03:57pm
Under TNC
Network World recently published an article by Andreas M. Antonopoulos looking at how security works (or doesn’t) in the cloud. The basis will be NAC, Network Access Control, as: With NAC you have endpoints (laptops, smartphones, desktops, printers) connecting to switches ad-hoc and in a transient fashion. Security must be coordinated between the stuff that [...]
Continue Reading NAC, virtualisation and cloud security
Tags: cloud computing, nac, network world
By Ken Y-N
April 2nd, 2010 at 03:00pm
Under Storage
Browsing through Wikipedia, I came across some rather bizarre text on Hardware-based full disk encryption. A paragraph reads: Currently there is an effort by Microsoft, that has a software FDE product called Bitlocker to block TCG commands through their Windows Operating System. This effort is in the IEEE 1667 group that was founded by Microsoft [...]
Continue Reading IEEE 1667 versus TCG’s Opal
Tags: ieee 1667, opal, wikipedia
By Ken Y-N
March 27th, 2010 at 02:10pm
Under TPM
Following on from a previous post on TPM integration into Chrome OS from Google, I see that just three days after I posted on the 19th of March there were five new TPM-related firmware test issues added, then on the 23rd of March another fifteen new test issues were added to the Chrome issues database. [...]
Continue Reading More on the TPM in Chrome OS
Tags: chrome, chromium, google
By Ken Y-N