April 20, 2015, Trusted Compute Group, San Francisco—A panel moderated by Rich Nass of Open Systems Media and comprised of panelists Stacey Cannady from Cisco, Chuck Benson from the University of Washington, and Darin Anderson from Cyber United looked at security in the Internet of things (IoT). The fundamental issue is that the billions of…
April 20, 2015, Trusted Compute Group, San Francisco—Paul Roberts from the Security Ledger talked with Amy Nelson from Dell and David Bossio from Microsoft about implementing the trusted processor modules (TPM) into products. Although the technology has been around for a while, the implementations and adoptions are still nascent. Use at Dell and programming different…
February 25, 2014, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Wave Systems (www.wave.com) is combining features of the Trusted Platform Module and some software to create functionality of a smart card without any physical devices. The package stores authentication credentials in TPM containers, so they can offer security comparable to that of a smart card or other physical media….
February 24, 2014, RSA Conference, Trusted Computing Group, San Francisco—A panel considered the challenges in implementing TPM. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Panelists were Monty Wiseman from Intel, Dustin Ingalls from Microsoft, and Gal Shpantzer from SANS. The industry has reached an inflection point in the technology, moving towards greater adoption…
September 2013, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Bill Futral described the latest implementations of the Trusted Computing Group’s trusted platform module. The latest TPM specification 00.99 was released in August 2013. {edcs007} The TPM is an embedded microcontroller that stores keys, passwords, and certificates that is attached to a motherboard. The separate module is more secure…
February 25, 2013, TCG Security Sessions, San Francisco—A panel considered the implications of advanced persistent threats (APT) with respect to the NIST 800-147 and -155 standards. Paul Roberts from The Security Ledger moderated the panel. Members were; Frank Molsberry from Dell, Stacy Cannady from Digital Management, Sunil Gottumukka from Microsoft, and Robert Thibadeau from Wave…