Trusted Computing Group Sponsors Storage Visions

Members Will Demonstrate and Address the Role of Self-Encrypting Drives in Protecting Content

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a worldwide open industry standards organization, will sponsor the Storage Visions 2012 conference January 8-9, Las Vegas, Nev. TCG creates specifications based on the concept of a hardware root of trust for a variety of devices, applications and services and developed the widely-implemented Opal specification for self-encrypting drives (SEDs).

Most major drive manufacturers support the Opal SED specification, and many PCs include the drives.

Storage Visions this year will highlight how digital content is created, protected and stored, with security being a key consideration. In Session B1, "Protecting What We Have," on Sunday, January 8, Jorge Campello, senior manager at Hitachi GST and chair of TCG's Storage Work Group; David Duncan of Imation; Aidan Herbert, advanced research at Wave Systems; and Ben Thiel, Micron will talk about security of stored content with an emphasis on security of data on mobile devices, with Michael Willett of Samsung and TCG moderating the session.

TCG members supporting the Opal specification for notebook PCs will show their products at Storage Visions in Booth #31. Samsung’s solid-state drive (SSD), with Wave Systems’ Trusted Drive Manager (TDM), will demonstrate simple local management of the SSD SED. The demo also will show how customers optionally have used Wave’s centralized EMBASSY Remote Administration Server (ERAS) enterprise management system to roll out thousands of secure notebook PCs containing sensitive and confidential data that is protected during loss or theft. The demo also will illustrate instantaneous “crypto erase” of the drive, which allows the client PC to be repurposed or decommissioned without compromising the data.

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) provides open standards that enable a safer computing environment across platforms and geographies. Benefits of Trusted Computing include protection of business-critical data and systems, secure authentication and strong protection of user identities, and the establishment of strong machine identity and network integrity. Organizations using built-in, widely available trusted hardware and applications reduce their total cost of ownership. TCG technologies also provide regulatory compliance that is based upon trustworthy hardware. More information and the organization’s specifications and work groups are available at the Trusted Computing Group’s website, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org. Follow TCG on Twitter and on LinkedIn.

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Source: Trusted Computing Group