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Intel execs stressed the importance of secure technologies and solid collaborations to improve product resilience and fuel innovation. The "Chat" was moderated by Suzy Greenberg, vice president of Intel product assurance and security, and the Intel executive panel were Amy Santoni, principal engineer, security architecture and engineering group; Ron Perez, fellow, security architecture, data platform group; Tom Garrison, vice president and general manager of client security strategy and initiatives; and Michael Nordquist, senior director of strategic planning and architecture, client computing group.
There's going to have to be a lot more new procedures developed, a lot better procedures developed to bridge the gap between operational technology and information technology to get those control systems where they need to be. There's going to be a really good focus on what it means to be at that national, and even the regional levels within the control systems there, to start having more robust sharing of that information that's going on within these networks.
Venafi announced a machine identity management solution that combines the powerful, machine identity lifecycle automation in the Venafi Trust Protection Platform with Intel Software Guard Extensions powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. "Organizations in the throes of digital transformation are consistently grappling with increasingly sophisticated attacks that target their machine identities," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi.
The new 11th Generation Intel Core H-series mobile processors is launched worldwide, led by the flagship Intel Core i9-11980HK. The Intel Core i9-11980HK delivers the highest-performance in laptops for gaming, content creators and business professionals reaching speeds of up to 5.0 gigahertz. "11th Gen Intel Core H-series processors take mobile gaming, content creation and commercial workstation systems to new heights. These new H-series processors are an exciting extension of our 11th Gen mobile family with double-digit single core and multi-core performance improvements, leading gameplay, direct attached storage and 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes for true enthusiast-level platform bandwidth."
A team of academics from the University of Virginia and University of California, San Diego, have discovered a new line of attack that bypasses all current Spectre protections built into the chips, potentially putting almost every system - desktops, laptops, cloud servers, and smartphones - once again at risk just as they were three years ago. The disclosure of Spectre and Meltdown opened a floodgates of sorts, what with endless variants of the attacks coming to light in the intervening years, even as chipmakers like Intel, ARM, and AMD have continually scrambled to incorporate defenses to alleviate the vulnerabilities that permit malicious code to read passwords, encryption keys, and other valuable information directly from a computer's kernel memory.
Version 90 of Google's Chrome browser includes a bit of extra security for users of recent versions of Windows and the latest x86 processors, in the form of hardware-enforced stack protection. This basically means that, if your PC supports it, it's a bit harder for malicious websites to exploit bugs in Chrome to hijack your computer.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint expands its use of Intel Threat Detection Technology beyond accelerated memory scanning capabilities to activate central processing unit based cryptomining machine learning detection. "Customers who choose Intel vPro with the exclusive Intel Hardware Shield now gain full-stack visibility to detect threats out of the box with no need for IT configuration."
Microsoft today announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, the enterprise version of its Windows 10 Defender antivirus, now comes with support for blocking cryptojacking malware using Intel's silicon-based Threat Detection Technology. Intel TDT is part of the Hardware Shield's suite of capabilities available on Intel vPro and Intel Core platforms, providing endpoint detection and response capabilities for advanced memory scanning, cryptojacking, and ransomware detection via CPU-based heuristics.
Intel launched its performance data center platform optimized to power the industry's broadest range of workloads - from the cloud to the network to the intelligent edge. New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are the foundation of Intel's data center platform, enabling customers to capitalize on some of the most significant business opportunities today by leveraging the power of AI. New 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors deliver a significant performance increase compared with the prior generation, with an average 46% improvement on popular data center workloads.
Cisco announced new server solutions supported by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to bring new performance and security capabilities to customers' hybrid cloud infrastructure. To help technology teams address increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, Cisco today is introducing Unified Computing System server models with the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.