Why Isn’t Trusted Computing taking off?

Posted by Ken Y-N on August 19th, 2008 at 03:23pm

I’ll directly steal the title from an article on the Dark Reading blog looking at why Trusted Computing is not taking off.

The article points out that a Trusted Platform Module, as available on many enterprise PCs, can do lots of things like access control, encryption, etc in hardware, making it much harder for the hacker to break the system. In addition, full-disk encryption and secure encryption key storage is realised, and then adding network access control on top the state of a client can be authenticated. Finally, it moves the security away from the end-user so they cannot either accidentally or deliberately (important in a corporate environment) disable the security features.

So why isn’t Trusted Computing taking off?

To try to find out, the Computer Security Institute, the people being Dark Reading, will be conducting a survey this month (August) of its members into what they are actually doing regarding Trusted Computing.

I await the results, and I’ll be sure to post them once they appear.

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