[May 24, 2012] United States : Cisco and Juniper Networks Take Promoter and Board of Directors Positions with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Cisco has joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an organization that develops open international industry standards, as a Promoter member to serve on its board and help drive the evolution of the group's successful specifications for trusted systems. TCG also announced that Juniper Networks, a current TCG member, now will participate in TCG as a Promoter member with a position on the board of directors. Cisco and Juniper Networks will work closely with board members from Advanced Micro Devices; Fujitsu Ltd.; Hewlett-Packard; IBM; Infineon Technologies AG; Intel Corporation; Lenovo Holdings Ltd.; Microsoft; and Wave Systems. Elected Contributor board members currently include representatives from Dell and Nokia. "TCG's specifications, embedded into hundreds of millions of PCs, servers, storage systems and networking devices, defend enterprises and users daily against attacks, theft, malware and data loss," commented Joerg Borchert, TCG president and chairman and Infineon vice president, Chip Card & Security ICs, Infineon Technologies North America Corporation. "With the expertise of two of the world's leading networking infrastructure companies, TCG's board and work groups can continue to evolve our security standards to protect data, systems and connectivity for wired and wireless environments." TCG has created many specifications based on the root-of-trust concept, including the widely implemented Trusted Platform Module (TPM) included in more than 500 million PCs, servers and other platforms; self-encrypting drives (SEDs) available from most storage vendors; and Trusted Network Connect (TNC) for network security, included in products from dozens of vendors. Through development of open industry standard specifications, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) enables a safer computing environment for the entire platform and in remote locations. Trusted Computing is useful for protecting business-critical system and data, providing secure verification methods, reinforcing user ID protection, and ensuring machine ID and network authenticity. Trusted Computing is highly reliable, and organizations utilizing widely available internal hardware and applications can install or own it at a lower cost. Furthermore, TCG technology conforms to regulations for reliable hardware. (c) 2012 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]