If you liked that, you'll love this! LOL Come on, turn those TPM's on, Army, Air Force, in fact the whole DOD!!
Remember: Waves' EEE (Embassy Endpoint Enforcer)
"The second is to use the Trusted platform module to sign and what the industry calls measure the health certificates of the network access control solution."
& this:
"having Wave's products as part of the solutions being offered, we're in a very unique position today to have built our Embassy Endpoint Enforcer software in a position where we are demonstrating with the market-leading NAC solutions how the TPM properly integrates according to the Trusted Computing Group standards."
So let me switch topics a little bit and talk about the demonstration we did back in May. I think this will be another very significant sector in the market for Wave in relationship to network access control. In May, at the Interop show, we demonstrated the role of the Trusted platform module in connection with both Microsoft and Juniper's network access control strategies. What this in essence does is there are really two key roles for the Trusted platform module in any network access control solution. One is for the TPM to provide the role of strong machine identity. This would be true not only for Microsoft and Juniper but also for Cisco solutions, where the TPM can store a unique key and before any machine is connected to the network, the network switch will verify that key is present and it's an authorized key before that machine is connected. This is how ultimately you can make the statement that only XYZ Corp.'s machines are on XYZ Corp.'s network, and really can provide a tremendous deterrent to someone stealing user IDs and passwords or other access credentials, gaining access to a corporation.
The second is to use the Trusted platform module to sign and what the industry calls measure the health certificates of the network access control solution. So in the case of a machine connecting to the network, what the Trusted platform module does is it collects any measurement data that's done before the machine connects; it signs it, and it prepares what looks like a health report and submits that health report with a request for connection. If the health report is satisfactory, then the network switch will provide an IP address and the machine will be connected. So this is a great way to ensure that every corporate PC is in compliance with corporate IT policies around anti-virus, certain applications, certain types of software needs, either needing to be or not be installed on specific platforms.
The reason this is important for Wave is that we see these technologies packaged in Windows 2008 server. As the Windows 2008 server rolls out across the market over the course of the next few years, this will be one of the huge driving reasons to turn all enterprise TPMs on. So if you look out a number of years, this is one of the applications that will drive the multiple hundreds of millions of endpoints on the network to end up with their Trusted platform modules turned on. By no means the only application, but demonstrating the capabilities, having Wave's products as part of the solutions being offered, we're in a very unique position today to have built our Embassy Endpoint Enforcer software in a position where we are demonstrating with the market-leading NAC solutions how the TPM properly integrates according to the Trusted Computing Group standards.
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