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Dell opts out of Microsoft's Pluton security for Windows

https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/dell_pluton_microsoft/

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This doesn't align with our approach, PC giant tells us

Yet another top-tier PC maker seemingly isn't interested right now in Microsoft's vision of hardware-level security for Windows 11 systems.

Dell won't include Microsoft's Pluton technology in most of its commercial PCs, telling The Register: "Pluton does not align with Dell's approach to hardware security and our most secure commercial PC requirements."

Dell laptops coming soon with 12th-Gen Intel Core processors will therefore not use Pluton for their TPMs. The modules they will use, we're told, are certified by the Trusted Computing Group, and satisfy the FIPS 140-2 standard set by NIST.

The big concern among users is the presence of a Microsoft chip in a PC, and the concept of "chip-to-cloud security," which could help the software maker exert more control of systems across the entire stack. Pluton security features can be keep updated through Windows Update.
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It looks like the TPM is the 'go to chip' in hardware security, and why all the 2,000,000,000 TPMs in organizations have not been activated is bewildering especially when the TPMs are already paid for, and all that they can accomplish in the way of security with Wave software!!
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