Security News > 2021 > August > A Closer Look at Intel's Hardware-Enabled Threat Detection Push
The silicon security parts of Secured-Core PCs are only part of Intel's ongoing hardware security program.
As hackers continue to evolve their techniques, moving increasingly towards the hardware infrastructure, Intel argues that organizations of all sizes must invest in better technology - from endpoint to network edge to cloud.
At the core of its security offerings is the Intel Hardware Shield, a set of security technologies capable of monitoring CPU behavior for signs of malicious activity and using GPUs to help with accelerated memory scanning.
At the heart of Intel Hardware Shield is TDT, a set of tools that harness silicon-level telemetry and acceleration capabilities to help pinpoint early signs of ransomware, crypto-mining, fileless scripts and other targeted attacks.
Nowadays, the installed OS is ready to take advantage of such hardware security improvements, but must wait for the company to replace aging computers with the latest models that incorporate the hardware improvements.
"So," he says, "Companies are holistically looking at, how can I actually fix that? What can I do? How do I get the best protection against some of these things? And they're realizing it needs to be a combination of hardware and software." An holistic view of cybersecurity requires a closer alignment of OS and hardware replacement cycles.