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11 January, 2012
Ultrabooks Focus on Security with Included Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
This week at the gargantuan Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the spotlight has shone brightly on a new category of PCs: ultrabooks. These thin, lightweight notebook PCs have powerful processors, regular-sized keyboards, fast start-up - and a focus on security, with inclusion of the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
Industry expert and Endpoint Technologies' analyst Roger Kay notes some of these intros in his Forbes.com post @ http://t.co/xaHyHSMP.
With data breaches, identify theft and malware increasingly impacting consumers, the computing community is leading with security as a feature these days.
From another blog highlighting the category,
"...Security: Hardware and software based security is probably at the top of the list. Pre-boot authentication and finger-print scanners will be common. Data protection will be enhanced with hardware such as embedded security in a hardware security chip, called the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). TPM specifications have been developed by the Trusted Computing Group. Ultrabooks / ultrathins will commonly incorporate anti-theft, anti-malware, and identity protection."
TCG members with new ultrabooks this week include Dell, HP and others. Many of these new PCs are positioned as business models, tapping into the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend - which also brings up a number of security issues, which can be supported with the TPM. The TPM is being used in these systems for BitLocker data encryption as well as for protecting passwords and supporting various secure authentication approaches. Other new ultrabooks are being positioned as consumer devices, bringing the TPM benefits to more users.
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