September 27th, 2010 at 03:42pm
Under TCG+ TNC+ Virtualisation
Sorry I’m a bit slow with the news, but the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group (that’s longhand for Cloud Security, basically) has now publically launched! The TCG has also published a white paper on Cloud Computing and Security – A Natural Match, that discusses why you want a TPM in the cloud, [...]
Continue Reading The Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group
Tags: cloud, if-map, trusted multi-tenant
By Ken Y-N
September 15th, 2010 at 03:48pm
Under General
Here’s an interesting press release announcement from Intertrust entitled Intertrust Introduces New Technology for Protecting Secrets, which describes an implementation of their Sushi Marlin client SDK. STMicroelectronics are supplying the hardware side of secure decoder chips, to realise the following: Marlin protects both operator and content provider content during delivery and this protection is ensured [...]
Continue Reading Intertrust announces a security SDK
Tags: actvila, drm, intertrust, marlin, sockeye, stmicroelectronics
By Ken Y-N
September 14th, 2010 at 02:54pm
Under MTM+ Virtualisation
I came across this interesting post on the Building Bridges blog about how mobile virtualisation is a natural evolution from the current situation. I’m not sure of the accuracy of the technical content, but it’s nice to see someone writing about these issues! The top five reasons were identified as: Support for multiple environments Easier [...]
Continue Reading Five reasons for virtualisation in mobile phones
Tags: joe hackman, okl4
By Ken Y-N
August 31st, 2010 at 04:42pm
Under General
David Lacey’s IT Security Blog examined the Intel buy-out of McAfee in detail, but he doesn’t see the sense in it. He paraphrases Intel’s statements on the buy-out with this: In fact the real motivation behind the deal is an initiative to embed more security in hardware. Intel confidently believes that McAfee’s security technology will [...]
Continue Reading Should Intel have bought Wave instead?
Tags: intel, mcafee, wave
By Ken Y-N
August 31st, 2010 at 04:28pm
Under General
Kevin Townsend had a bit of a rant on his blog about McAfee being bought by Intel, a matter which has been covered both here and elsewhere, but I did enjoy the tie in with Cameron Diaz, so it was too good a headline to miss out on. He makes this point: Trusted computing is [...]
Continue Reading Trusted Computing even more dangerous than Cameron Diaz!
Tags: cameron diaz, intel, mcafee
By Ken Y-N
August 24th, 2010 at 04:16pm
Under General
The big news in the Trusted Computing and security world last week was Intel buying McAfee for 7.68 billion dollars. Both companies are members of the Trusted Computing Group, with Intel being a promoter, and from the press release, one of the claimed benefits to Intel of the acquisition is this: Acquisition enables a combination [...]
Continue Reading Intel buying McAfee
Tags: intel, mcafee
By Ken Y-N
August 20th, 2010 at 03:51pm
Under Advocacy
The Guardian recently decided to publish an article from apparently a journalism student entitled We should all be using free software, but the article was not much more than a hastily cobbled-together from Wikipedia overview of Free Software worthy of a third-rank Linux blog, not a national newspaper’s web site. Let’s look at a few [...]
Continue Reading Guardian journalist attacks TPM and everything else
Tags: guardian
By Ken Y-N
August 20th, 2010 at 03:07pm
Under General
I’m sure I’ve mentioned this company before, but I can’t find the story again! Regardless, it’s an interesting development that deserves not just a first but also a second mention. Symbio Technologies have released a new version of their Symbiont Boot Stick, a USB memory stick containing a protected trusted environment that can access a [...]
Continue Reading Symbio’s Trusted Endpoint on a stick
Tags: symbio
By Ken Y-N
August 18th, 2010 at 04:36pm
Under Storage
A recent article sponsored by the Trusted Computing Group and published on Computer Technology Review looked at why self-encrypting drives are almost a legal necessity yet need not be expensive nor painful to introduce and manage. Furthermore, disk drives supporting TCG’s Opal specification for hardware-based encryption are around twice as fast as software-based systems.
Continue Reading Why you need self-encrypting drives
Tags: opal
By Ken Y-N
August 17th, 2010 at 04:07pm
Under Storage
Toshiba have come out with an interesting concept, the self-deleting drive. Basically, a disk compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal full disk encryption standard can be erased instantly by just deleting the key, so what Toshiba has done is to allow the host device administrator to configure when the drive should be erased, such [...]
Continue Reading Self-encrypting Self-deleting Drives
Tags: opal, toshiba
By Ken Y-N