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Intel is using Infosec to push Sandy Bridge security
OPPORTUNISTIC LAPTOP THIEVES beware, as Intel is talking up the levels of protection it is adding to its Sandy Bridge second generation Core processor series.
Although the security will not immolate any thieves, it will let the owner locate, or lock down a stolen system, Chipzilla explained.
According to a report on news site V3.co.uk, businesses, and we assume individuals too, are reeling from losing devices, and are making their accountants work hard to find the £31,148 cost of such a loss.
Intel explained that this cost includes regulatory expenses, forensic investigations, lost intellectual property and of course, the cost of replacing the hardware itself.
Intel expects to turn this situation around with Identity Protection Technology, its own name for the security system that includes support for two-factor authentication as well as remote locking over a mobile network or net connection.
"Say you're at the airport and you turn around and your laptop bag has gone. You can easily call your service provider and report it. They send a message to the PC via the internet or SMS if the PC has a 3G card, and when it receives that message it locks itself down immediately," said Glenn Le Vernois of Intel's Services Programme.
You can read more about Intel's plans for portable security and Sandy Bridge at V3.co.uk. µ
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History repeats itself. Intel dug pit for AMD by ordering to throtle it FloatingPoint. Now its time for Intel to throtle its ownself by installing AV in its CPUs. Many people/gammers just dont install AVs to keep PC faster. AMD can just intriduce GPU accelrated AV. already demonstrated by Kaspersky.
As was pointed out to me in an article from yesterday, "Chipzilla" already has an AES encryption engine built into the CPU, and we have the software to use it (Linux, OpenBSD, etc.). There's our Infosec right there.
The problem is that people aren't using what's already there. And it's not like it's hard anymore. Ubuntu and Fedora both make it very easy to make, for example, encrypted partitions for homedirs and swapspace. Point 'n' click. That should already be corporate policy everywhere by now.
Only one other possibility comes to mind here, and that's a reattempt at a Treacherous Platform Module (TPM) push. They tried it before, and it was unpopular then.
I'm just glad AMD ("Chimpzilla") is around. Their chips might not be as earth-scorchingly fast as Intel's now are, but they're certainly good enough for me. And they don't have that TPM junk.
--SYG