Security News > 2020 > October > Intel Unveils New Security Tech in Upcoming Ice Lake CPU
Intel on Wednesday announced the new security technologies that will be present in the company's upcoming 3rd generation Xeon Scalable processor, code-named "Ice Lake.".
"Protecting data is essential to extracting value from it, and with the capabilities in the upcoming 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable platform, we will help our customers solve their toughest data challenges while improving data confidentiality and integrity. This extends our long history of partnering across the ecosystem to drive security innovations," said Lisa Spelman, corporate VP of the Data Platform Group and GM of the Xeon and Memory Group at Intel.
One of the new security features introduced with Ice Lake processors is named Total Memory Encryption, which ensures that all memory accessed from the CPU is encrypted.
As for cryptographic acceleration, Intel says it has introduced two new innovations that should help reduce the performance impact caused by better security.
Finally, the Intel Platform Firmware Resilience feature in Ice Lake processors is designed to protect systems against firmware attacks by detecting and addressing them before any damage is caused.