Security in Windows 7

Posted by Ken Y-N on April 22nd, 2009 at 02:32pm

DarkReading recently described the new security features in Windows 7, as presented by Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, in a keynote at the RSA Conference 2009.

One excellent feature (it will be interesting to see how exactly it is implemented), is BitLocker To Go, using the TPM, if present on the system, to automatically encrypt USB drives, SD cards, and other removable media. Perhaps it will be for a third party to develop, but given encrypted cards, it would be great if two systems could authenticate with each other and share keys through their mutual TPMs to allow removable media sharing between just these two parties.

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