Trusted Computing Group News

October 2010

Welcome to the Trusted Computing Group's newsletter! Stay current with TCG activities, including recent case study releases, news items and upcoming events.

In This Issue

Data Protection Solutions

Featured Whitepaper

Industry News

Trusted Computing Resources

Featured Press Release

Upcoming Events

Data Protection Solutions

Self Encrypting Drive Benefits
Self-encrypting drives based on open industry standards from the Trusted Computing Group provide a dramatically improved 'data at rest' solution for data protection... Read More.

Featured Whitepaper

TNC and SCAP: An Integrated Solution for Automating Security

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NIST's SCAP was created as a community effort to create a common set of standards to help express and automate configuration management. The SCAP standards provide a common language for organizations to perform continuous monitoring and assessment of the endpoint population in regards to compliance with required configurations and the existence of known vulnerabilities for the ultimate purpose of minimizing the attack surface of each endpoint...Read the full whitepaper here.

Industry News

PwC lauds Trusted Platform Module for Strong Authentication

Auditing and business-services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today said it's built its next-generation authentication system by swapping out employees' older software... Read More.

NSA Product Accreditations Lag Behind IT Security Advances

The National Security Agency wants to use commercially-built security products and the latest virtualization software. But the slow pace of getting products certified through NSA channels... Read More.

Trusted Computing Group Eyes Cloud Security Framework

Known as the Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Work Group, there are about 50 TCG members participating, including HP, IBM, AMD and Microsoft. The group also will receive input from U.S. Defense Department... Read More.

Trusted Computing Solutions

Published Specifications Developer Tools
Authentication Solutions Vertical Industries

Network Security Solutions Media Room

Data Protections Solutions Membership Overview

Featured Press Release
Trusted Computing Group Extends Trust-Based Security To Cloud Computing Announces Updates To IF-MAP (Metadata Access Protocol) For Security Information-Sharing

Trusted Computing Group (TCG), which develops industry standards for security, announced today a significant effort to extend the concept of trust to cloud-based computing. The effort will be led by the organization's new Trusted Multi-Tenant Infrastructure work group."TCG already has a number of specifications and efforts to protect clients, networks and systems, and many of those are applicable to multi-tenant infrastructure," noted Scott Rotondo, TCG president.