Security News > 2020 > May > Why zero trust security needs strong hardware foundations

The Intel vPro® platform is a set of capabilities embedded into the hardware of endpoint systems aimed at businesses and large organisations, covering areas such as security and remote management.

The latest updates to the Intel vPro® platform includes a new security technology called Intel® Hardware Shield.

A customer can then take the system serial number, look it up on the Intel or device manufacturer cloud, and check that it has a valid certificate of trust authorised by Intel or the device manufacturer.

Intel® AMT is a combination of hardware and firmware embedded in the silicon of the Intel vPro® platform that provides an out-of-band connection for remote management below the level of the operating system.

Intel® Hardware Shield also provides the ability to detect and protect against threats through a new set of hardware acceleration capabilities aimed at boosting the ability of security tools to detect cyber attacks and malware.

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