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ASUS R1F - First Tablet PC from Asus

Security and data protection

The laptop is definitely aimed into the business sphere where confidential data often appears and this of course brings high demands for the data security. No wonder then that we can find the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip here, as well as a fingerprint reader. The reader can protect the system boot and/or Windows password. Generally we can say, that the matter of security was considered very important here and therefore the scale of options is huge. Some of the key issues can be set in the BIOS and the rest and more detailed settings are offered in the SW from Infineon, the producer of this particular TPM chip.

Besides the implied function of the administrator password, BIOS also offers to lock down the HDD and let this settings freeze so that the password cannot be changed afterwards. It is also possible to protect the computer against a possible loss of data by disabling all the interfaces including Secondary Master and that is not very common to see.
The capabilities of the SW mentioned above are really impressive. It can encode emails, files and folders, import and manage security certificates, provide data protection during the migration or backing up data and many others concerning e.g. networking or file management system. Together with the BIOS settings the R1F can protect itself from outside attacks as well as to make you sure that your possible employee will not try any tricks. When all the interfaces are secured and the TPM software appropriately set, the only way to get data out is by photographing the screen.

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