PC Client Work group produces specifications and whitepapers to provide common functionality, interfaces, and a set of security and privacy requirements for PC Client platforms that use TCG components to establish their root of trust. This includes specifications addressing the requirements for PC Client specific TPM’s, PC Client specific platforms, the PC Client TPM interfaces and the interfaces between the different elements of the PC Client platform.
This Work group serves an advisory role by providing information to the TPM Work group and other TCG Work groups on possible architectural and design issues that may impact their work. This Work group also supports other platform Work groups at their request to specify additional TPM interfaces.
PC Client standards refine the definition of a TPM from the TPM Library specification based on the needs and common usage of PC Client platforms. These standards include the PC Client Specific Platform TPM Profile which defines the requirements for the TPM, the PC Client Specific Platform Firmware Profile which defines the platform firmware behavior in the context of a TPM enabled system, and several other specifications which provide interfaces and communication standards between OS present components and the platform firmware for the purpose of using and managing the TPM.
Amy Nelson is an Engineering Technologist and Security Software Technical Planner responsible for Dell Data Protection | Encryption. Amy represents Dell within the Trusted Computing Group, chairing the PC Client Work Group and the Security Evaluation Work Group. Amy has previously been a Security Architect for Dell, with responsibility for Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption hardware, including Dell Data Protection | Hardware Crypto Accelerator, and authentication hardware and software. Amy has participated in assurance activities within FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 201 and Common Criteria for the last five years, serving as an editor for the TCG PC Client Specific Protection Profile for TPM 2.0, chairing working groups performing reviews of TCG specifications for FIPS and CC compliance issues, and presently serving as a Subject Matter Expert in the International Technical Community for the Collaborative Protection Profile for Full Disk Encryption. Amy has 20 years of experience in the PC industry and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.