Intel vPro Expert Center Blog

RE: 5 Reasons to look forward to Danbury Technology

snrichar — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:18:05 GMT

Intel(r) Anti-Theft Technology (Intel(r) AT, previous codenamed Danbury) brings a new approach to FDE. Intel AT brings platform hardware and firmware that provides the same advantages that other hardware based approaches, like encrypting HDDs offer, but adds to that the ability to scale out to multiple drives that leverage the same hardware crypto engnine. This means there is no dependence on a particular drive vendor or drive model as you add or replace drives in a system.

In addition, through tight integration with Intel(r) AMT, Intel AT offers the ability for an authenticated admin to access the disk remotely for management purposes, even if the OS is down. This means a machine can, for example, be deployed with FDE, yet still have patches remtotely applied that require multiple reboots - without the user having to authenticate locally. Patches can also be pushed to machines that are powered down at night (no need to leave a local user logged in and the FDE in an "unlocked" state). This is a major improvement on most of today's solutions, in that local authentication does not need to be disabled to facilitate remote management as is done with some of today's products. Instead, you have full local user authentication and the ability to remotely manage - manageability AND security.

Intel AT will be coming to both desktops and notebooks, as many enterprises want to apply encryption policy across all PCs regardless of form factor. While laptops is a major driver for the need for FDE, desktops still provide real risk and should also be protected.

Intel is working with leading security and system management software vendors to deliver solutions that meet the complete set of enterprise needs. Wave, McAfee/SafeBoot and Credant are among are announced partenrs for this technology.

RE: 5 Reasons to look forward to Danbury Technology

Jonathan Lazar — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:26:57 GMT

How does this stack up to FDE HDDs like from Fujitsu, Seagate, Hitachi, etc? I see that currently Secude (http://secude.com) and Wave (wave.com) are already supporting this and it is targeted at laptops, not desktops.

RE: BlogTalkRadio back in action with SCE/SCOM!

fietsverzekering — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:08 GMT

I've downloaded the show today and I'm going to listen to it on my iPod when I'm going to work!

RE: Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

josh.hilliker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:58:26 GMT

Sophia.
I hear tomorrow is the lucky day to see it all come together, the console, the systems and the use cases. I'm looking forward to your impression after you see the technology in action.
Josh H

RE: Relevance of Architecture: Part 3 - How Architecture Can Help

josh.hilliker — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:53:52 GMT

a quick reference to the post that I thought was a good link.

http://www.greenm3.com/2008/07/intel-it-releva.html

RE: Centrino 2 - Highlights

miroyer — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:13:40 GMT

If you did not have the opportunity to see the Centrino2 Launch Keynote in person, you can watch a recorded version of it at the following location: http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/centrino2/index.htm

RE: Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

Sophia.Stalliviere — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:10:58 GMT

People will always come up with different viruses for various different reasons, people are either bored or wants to just ruin things for everyone, so no matter what there will be viruses. That's why it's so great to get a product like this to help out with any issues.

RE: Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

Sophia.Stalliviere — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:03:35 GMT

Whitepaper is a documentation that people been written who researched certain subject.

RE: Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

scorey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:46:33 GMT

Great blog and easy to read too! One question, what is a whitepaper?

RE: Understanding vPro: Chapter 3- Proactive Security- did Intel put a tiny guard dog in my computer???

ntrent — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:40:16 GMT

Wow! I learned a lot just by reading your post! Do you think with the "tiny guard dog" that just about all threats like viruses, adware, etc., would disappear and we wouldn't have to worry about them anymore?