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TCG: Letter from the President

This month marks an important milestone in the history of the Trusted Computing Group. We're expanding the list of Promoter members for the first time in about two years. And we're adding not just one new Promoter, but two. I'm very pleased to welcome Seagate Technology and Wave Systems Corp. as new TCG Promoters. Both companies currently hold elected positions on the TCG Board of Directors, and they have been active leaders in the organization for some time. I look forward to their continued contributions in helping to lead TCG for years to come.

If you haven't done so already, please register for the TCG Members Meeting to be held soon in Nice, France. Our summer meetings in Europe are usually well-attended, and I expect that this will be no exception. Come for the meeting, and plan to stay a few extra days to see everything that the South of France has to offer.
Scott Rotondo
TCG President & Chairman

New Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Work Group IF-MAP 1.0 Specification Announced And Demonstrated At Interop 2008 To Critical Acclaim
To solve current and emerging problems in network security, a wide variety of systems are required to share data about users, devices, policies and behavior - so called network "metadata" - in order to make effective decisions and take appropriate actions to enforce policies. Today, gathering and sharing metadata among disparate systems is complex and costly, and often requires ad-hoc system integration.

IF-MAP Enables NAC 2.0 and Other Applications

On April 28th, TNC Work Group announced new extensions to the TNC Architecture, captured in Version 1.3, which defines the necessary components to meet use-cases for NAC 2.0 including the securing of non-PC devices such as phones, cameras and inventory control devices which are connecting to TCP/IP networks. The technical corner stone of TNC's NAC 2.0 architecture is the IF-MAP 1.0 specification. IF-MAP is a new core network service, analogous to DNS, that allows virtually any system to share and receive meaningful information essential to bolstering network security. This may eventually enable network location services, supply chain visibility and other applications, to name a few.

Interop 2008 (Las Vegas) IF-MAP Demonstration Successful

As part of the announcement, TCG members and early IF-MAP adopters including ArcSight, Aruba Networks, Infoblox, Juniper Networks, Lumeta Corporation and nSolutions, Inc. participated in a four day live IF-MAP demonstration at Interop 2008 which generated tremendously positive reactions and interest from show attendees, technical press and many non-TCG member companies. As evidence of the ease of adopting IF-MAP, several of the TCG member companies participating in the demonstration were able to integrate IF-MAP into their solutions within the two weeks preceding the tradeshow. Contact information from several hundred attendees was collected at the new TCG tradeshow booth where the IF-MAP demonstration was held and several hundred Interop participants were made aware of IF-MAP during the pre-conference NAC Day tutorial. The specification, whitepapers and related press activity from this event can be obtained from the Interop Las Vegas 2008 page on the TCG website.
TCG Expands Promoter Membership

The TCG Board of Directors would like to congratulate Seagate Technology and Wave Systems Corp. for being invited to join AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel Corporation, Lenovo Holdings Limited, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems as Promoter members of the Trusted Computing Group. Dr. Robert Thibadeau of Seagate Technology and Brian Berger of Wave Systems Corp. will serve as their company’s Board of Directors representative. Congratulations to these companies for their outstanding dedication and efforts to further Trusted Computing.
Trusted Computing: Tune In, Turn It On

A new research report entitled, "Trusted Computing: Tune In, Turn It On" published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE:HHS), reveals that organizations that have deployed applications based on trusted computing infrastructure exhibit superior capabilities in security governance, risk management and compliance compared to other respondents. The term "trusted computing" refers to applications that leverage hardware-based "roots of trust" at the edge of the network and at the endpoints - sometimes referred to as "hardware anchors in a sea of untrusted software" - for higher assurance.

…”more than 50% of existing desktop PCs and laptop PCs, and more than 75% of existing network endpoints and policy enforcement points, can support trusted computing as currently deployed…”

Excerpt from "Trusted Computing: Tune In, Turn It On, a research report by Aberdeen Group.
TCG Specifications Announced

The TCG has announced the availability of the following new specifications:

PC Client Work Group:

· TCG Platform Reset Attack Mitigation Specification, Version 1.0, Revision 1.0
TNC Work Group:

· TCG Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Architecture for Interoperability Specification, Version 1.3, Revision 6
· TCG Trusted Network Connect (TNC) IF-MAP Binding for SOAP Specification, Version 1.0, Revision 25
To view all of the TCG’s specifications, visit the Specification page.
TCG Resources

Specifications

· Trusted Network Connect (TNC) IF-MAP Announcement FAQ
· Network Industry and IT Support for Trusted Network Connect (TNC) and its IF-MAP Specification
· Trusted Network Connect (TNC) - Spring 2008 Update
White Papers

· Trusted Platform Module (TPM) Summary
· Enterprise Security: Putting the TPM to Work
· The Trusted Platform and How to Use It In the Enterprise
· Controlling Network Access and Endpoints
Trusted Computing Helpful Information

· TCG Open Source Resources and References
· Trusted Computing: Tune In, Turn It On - Aberdeen Group
· A Practical Guide to Trusted Computing - Written by David Challener, Kent Yoder, Ryan Cathermann, David Safford and Leendert van Doorn
More Companies Join the TCG

TCG continues to attract participation from computing industry leaders world-wide. The following new members have joined the TCG in support of open industry architectures and Trusted Computing:

· ArcSight, Inc.
· Big Fix, Inc.
· Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik
· CMS Products
· Great Bay Software, Inc.
· Lumeta Corporation
· Mobile Armor
· Nanjing Byosoft, Ltd.
· nSolutions, Inc.
· Rohati Systems
· Siemens AG
· Thales Communication
TCG now has more than 135 members; for a complete list visit: https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/about/members/.
Become a Proud Member of the TCG

Is your company interested in joining the Trusted Computing Group? To learn more about the benefits of a TCG membership, please visit the Join Us section on the TCG website or contact TCG Administration to request a Membership Agreement.