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Enhancing IT Security With trusted computing group Standards: An increasingly interconnected global computing environment brings with it myriad threats for enterprises to guard against, including software attacks and theft of both data and physical devices. This paper discusses Trusted Computing Group security standards that can help enable IT organizations to effectively respond to these challenges. Concerns about the...; Tags: Software, IT Security, Information Technology, Trusted Computing Group, Standards, Identity Theft, Quality, Security, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2006-11-01
The trusted computing group Mobile Specification: Securing Mobile Devices on Converged Networks: Mobile workers and consumers alike have increasingly numerous ways to access these networks - via data-enabled cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers UMPCs and notebook computers. In many cases, these same devices can also access the thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots which dot every major metropolitan area. The near term...; Tags: Converged Network, Mobile, Network, Ultramobile PC, Smart Phone, Trusted Computing Group, Specification, Mobile Device, Worker, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing; White papers 2006-09-01
Trusted Network Connect to Ensure Endpoint Integrity: The Trusted Computing Group TCG has extended its efforts in trusted computing to the development and promotion of the TNC architecture and standards, an open architecture to enhance endpoint integrity and network access control that establishes and enforces security policies before endpoints connect regardless of connection method in multi-vendor environments....; Tags: Network, Trusted Computing Group, PDAs, Networking, Handhelds, Hardware; White papers 2006-05-01
Microsoft's copyright play and the trusted computing group: Microsoft's copyright play and the Trusted Computing GroupTrusted computing?Gimme a break! You would be a nut to trust Microcrap, the corp. or it's products!BalanceAs you state, balance is the key--if you're going to take something away from consumers, you must make your offering somehow more attractive than what they have...; Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Trusted Computing Group, content company, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management; Discussion threads 2005-08-31
Microsoft's copyright play and the trusted computing group: Bruce Schneier wrote this piece "Is Microsoft skirting the issue?" but maybe he should have titled it "I hate hardware TPMs because they enable copy protection". It's not that I necessarily disagree with Bruce over the issue that the new copy protection features in Windows Vista are a little...; Tags: hardware; Blog posts 2005-08-31

Trusted Platform Modules Strengthen User and Platform Authenticity: The TPM is widely deployed in a number of notebook and desktop systems. How does this chip work, and what does it enable? This document reviews key features of the TPM, its capabilities, and how it can be used in the enterprise.; Tags: Trusted Computing Group, TPM, Desktops, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking; White papers 2005-01-01
How to Use Trusted Computing in Your Enterprise: A Guide to Applications and Products: You can use Trusted Computing today to protect systems, data and transactions in your enterprise. This guide will review how Trusted Computing can be used and where to get the products that you can implement.; Tags: Trusted Computing Group, Trusted Computing; White papers
Trusted Computing – Getting Started In Three Easy Steps: It is a reality in today’s business environment that enterprise and government data is vulnerable to attack. Critical incidents are reported by the media daily including identity theft, information leakage, data destruction, sensitive data exposure due to lost or stolen computers, and unauthorized access to corporate networks. With the increased...; Tags: Trusted Computing Group, Trusted Computing, Wave Systems Corp., Security Chip, Information Technology Industry, Identity Theft, Quality, Security, Business Operations; White papers
Open Standards for Integrity-based Network Access Control: Learn how to integrate the trusted hardware of the TPM into a network access control framework with the unprecedented security of the Trusted Network Connect architecture. The TPM enables detection of any unauthorized software including kernel rootkits, platform authentication, protected storage, and other substantial benefits. In addition to this...; Tags: Open Standard, Network, Trusted Computing Group, Access Control, TPM, Rootkits, Networking, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware; White papers

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RIM's Lazaridis on why Qwerty's still working: RIM's co-CEO tells Silicon.com why he believes smartphones are the future, why Qwerty is so exciting, and why the Bold has nothing to do with the iPhone. BlackBerry maker RIM has been very busy this week hosting the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando, Fla. One of the announcements...; Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Research In Motion Ltd., Phone, Smart Phone, RIM BlackBerry, Qwerty, Keyboards, Smart Phones, Monitors & Displays, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Components, Silicon.com, Consumer electronics; News items 2008-05-16
Automatic eyeglasses prescriptions?: For its space missions, NASA wants astronauts with excellent vision without corrective lenses or glasses. This doesn't prevent its Vision Science and Technology Group to study human vision of ordinary people like you and me. Two members of this group recently discovered that a new formula connecting optical quality with...; Tags: NASA, Vision, Model, Metric, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2008-05-16
US cable companies added 1.19 mln new broadband subscribers in Q1 2008: Largest cable companies in the US added 1.19 mln broadband subscribers in Q1 2008, according to Leichtman Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 mln DSL customers in Q1 2008. Since Q3 2004, phone companies had been adding subscribers faster than cable, closing in on cable’s lead in total subscribers. But...; Tags: Phone, Telephone Company, Cable Company, Broadband, Cable, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, AM; Blog posts 2008-05-16
News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Frenemies: Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is â€˜Frenemies'...; Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Introduction to BIT: This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...; Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?: Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...; Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-15
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It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO: Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...; Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand: Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15