TCG participates in the Data Protection Summit, Irvine, CA

Posted by Ken Y-N on March 24th, 2008 at 01:23pm

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) official blog recently described events at the Data Protection Summit in Irvine, CA, held on March 11th to 13th 2008. Around 300 people including enterprise IT, consultants, and vendors were in attendance.

One particular focus of the TCG activities was the Mobile Encryption day, where the majority of speakers had TCG-related presentations, with the Storage Working Group being a particularly frequent topic for discussion. Full Disk Encryption (FDE) was another key techology which can be realised with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) through the above-mentioned Storage Working Group.

The recently-disclosed Princeton Coldboot Attack on software FDE keys may be alleviated by the use of TPM-based hardware keys for FDE, so the TCG booth found a lot of visitors were interested in this aspect. The booth also had demonstrations from Fujitsu using TPM and Trusted Network Connect (TNC) to illustrate network access control, and Secude, Seagate, and Wave Systems with hardware FDE systems. The boot supervison, Michael Willett from Seagate, was also interviewed for radio as a TCG representitive.

Here’s an interesting quote regarding FDE:

The combination of continuing high visibility data thefts, laptop losses, and ever tougher privacy legislation continues to make data protection one of the most popular conference and IT topics around. It seems that almost no one has to be convinced of the problems, but there is still work to be done in explaining and promoting the solutions, especially the new hardware based approaches being described by the TCG Storage Work Group.

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