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TCG Continues Popular Hands-On Labs at RSA Conference 2009

https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/blog/

April 8th, 2009 by Brian Berger
By Brian Berger, Wave Systems Corp.

Get your comfy shoes and business cards ready — it’s that time of the year! In less than two weeks, the leading security and computing vendors will gather in San Francisco at the RSA Conference! Four years ago, we here at Trusted Computing Group tried something that was a bit new for us and for the conference: we hosted a session the Monday before the “real” conference to talk to attendees about what then were some really new industry standards for trust in hardware and associated security. To our surprise, we got quite a large crowd (providing lunch might have helped). The folks at RSA thought it was a great idea to have this content available, so we have continued the tradition. Last year, we had to close the doors to additional attendees because the room was beyond capacity and the fire marshal was going to come after us.

This year, we have expanded the idea a bit. “Turning on the Trust: A Developer and End User Lab to Enable Higher Security for Clients, Networks and Storage Devices” session will keep the hands-on element, meaning attendees can touch and feel systems that use Trusted Computing specifications. But because RSA draws an increasing diverse crowd, we are offering sessions targeted to developers and sessions for IT users. This means that people interested in learning how these specifications work and how they can be embedded into hardware and applications can get detailed information and examples, from those in the trenches.

For the IT community that is facing specific challenges such as data protection, authentication, network security and the like, the afternoon sessions will focus on how to USE these products and services. Speakers who have experience deploying network security equipment to control who gets on the network, for example, will talk about what works and what does not. Users who have set up their Trusted Platform Modules in large numbers of clients will talk about their experiences. We hope you will walk away with some good information, ideas and notes on what you can do with Trusted Computing. And trust us, it’s not that hard to take real advantage of equipment and technologies that you probably already have!

Both sessions will run Monday, April 20, in the Orange Rooms 130-133 at Moscone Center North. Full session descriptions and the latest agenda can be seen on the RSA Conference 2009 page. To register to attend the TCG seminar, please visit http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/US/Home.aspx . Because these sessions have been very popular, we encourage you to register in advance.

You can see demos of various TCG technologies also at the TCG booth #2133 during RSA. Safe travels and hope to see you there!