August 17th, 2010 at 03:59pm
Under Storage
According to this post on the Trusted Computing Group’s official blog, Gartner have recently published two reports on self-encrypting drives, with a lot of space devoted to the TCG’s efforts regarding the Opal specification. The author predicts in one report that within five years all drives will ship with encryption as standard, and their testing [...]
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Tags: gartner, opal
By Ken Y-N
August 16th, 2010 at 03:59pm
Under Advocacy
Next month, on September 14th to 16th 2010, the National Security Agency will be hosting a Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition in Orlando, Florida, and naturally the TCG will be there as one of the Bronze Sponsors. To whet your appetite, first there is the TCG’s press release describing how the NSA’s High Assurance Platform [...]
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Tags: nsa
By Ken Y-N
August 16th, 2010 at 03:46pm
Under MTM
Here’s an interesting post from the Security Engineering Research Group blog, a research group based in Pakistan that specialises in Trusted Computing issues, where they have an in-depth look at the history of MAC, Mandatory Access Control, from the very beginnings in 1967 to the present day, where the Trusted Computing Group is one player, [...]
Continue Reading The history and evolution of Mandatory Access Controls
Tags: mac
By Ken Y-N
August 14th, 2010 at 04:25pm
Under Virtualisation
I recently came across an interesting article on security issues in Cloud Computing, which outlined the key security issues associated with Cloud Computing, and suggests the two key methods of securing these systems are first data tagging to stop data going where it shouldn’t, and second, having a hardware root of trust like the Trusted [...]
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Tags: cloud computing
By Ken Y-N
August 1st, 2010 at 03:51pm
Under TNC
An interesting article on the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Infrastructure-Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) specification has the curious quote that I have used as the title for this article: "IF-Map is Facebook for endpoint devices," said Matt Webster, product management director at Lumeta and cochair of TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) workgroup, which developed the IF-MAP [...]
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Tags: george lawton, if-map
By Ken Y-N
July 26th, 2010 at 04:26pm
Under Storage
A recent article by Thomas Coughlin for the Gerson Lehrman Group discussed a few reasons why the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification for self-encrypting drives is also applicable to solid state (Flash) drives. Two benefits that I hadn’t realised were available are 1) the cryptographic secure erasure feature of Opal, zapping the decryption keys in [...]
Continue Reading Further benefits of Opal on Solid State Drives
Tags: gerson lehrman group, opal, thomas coughlin
By Ken Y-N
July 21st, 2010 at 04:17pm
Under Virtualisation
Here’s a keynote speech from Brian Berger of Wave Systems and the Trusted Computing Group talking on issues surround Trusted Cloud Computing, from Cloud Connect 2010. Enjoy!
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Tags: brian berger, cloud connect
By Ken Y-N
July 20th, 2010 at 04:07pm
Under Storage
With solid state drives based around Flash memory becoming more and more popular in not just portable computers but also in desktops, the question of securing them also becomes more and more important. On Monday 16th of August 2010 there will be a Flash Security Workshop as a pre-conference event at the Flash Summit in [...]
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Tags: flash
By Ken Y-N
July 6th, 2010 at 04:01pm
Under Advocacy
There’s an interesting blog post that came to my attention, where Mister Reiner decides to visit the Trusted Computing Group’s web site, but finds he doesn’t like it. I agree with most of his criticisms, and I’ve chucked in my two cents. Please pay him a visit too.
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Tags: mister reiner, web site
By Ken Y-N
July 2nd, 2010 at 03:17pm
Under MTM
The site Mobile Dev and Design recently published an article describing a collaboration between Open Kernel Labs and Sirrix Security Technology to produce a secure mobile computing environment. The outline of the platform says: The joint prototype will run on readily available N900 mobile hardware and integrate the Sirrix Turaya Security Kernel (encryption, VPN, MTM/attestation, [...]
Continue Reading Open Kernel Labs and Sirrix produce a Mobile Trusted Platform
Tags: okl4, open kernel labs, sirrix
By Ken Y-N