The attacks and hacks keep coming. Atmel, a long-time TCG member and provider of the TPM, has commented in a new blog, “Shouldn’t Security Be a Standard?”. Indeed.
As Atmel says, “…TPM, which stands for Trusted Platform Module, can be thought of as a microcontroller that can take a punch, and come back for more.”
We’ve been saying this for a while. But many IT and security professionals are not getting the message. In fact, the TPM is included -and has been for years – in enterprise PCs and servers. There is widespread support, easy to do, via Windows 7 and 8 and Server. In fact, some key security functions that users are paying for require the TPM.
Atmel sums it up here:
“The TPM is a perfect fit for overall security. So, just how does the TPM increase security? There are four main capabilities:
Read more here from Atmel: http://ow.ly/CSIsP.
More details on the TPM, ideas to use and resources:https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/?e=category.solutionDetail&urlpath=authentication&resource_category_id=8#nav_jump.
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