Security

With attacks evolving and becoming more sophisticated, Intel proposes a layered approach to security that helps IT management balance business risk.  Staff information security specialist Jonathan Clemens presents the details.

Intel IT developed a unique standardized threat agent library (TAL) that provides a consistent, up-to-date reference describing the human agents that pose threats to IT systems and other information assets. The TAL quickly helps risk managers identify accurately and understand the importance of relevant threat agents. The library consists of 22 standardized archetypes defined using eight common attributes; the archetypes represent external and internal threat agents ranging from industrial spies to untrained employees. The library is designed to overcome the lack of standard threat agent definitions and the problem that threat information is often fragmented and sensationalized.   This white paper discusses the process Intel used to develop the TAL, and also includes a current library of threat agents and their defining attributes.

This new white paper from the Intel marketing group describes how Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology features hardware-based proactive security and built-in management capabilities that readily integrate with management solutions to help lower IT management costs and improve IT efficiency.  Plus you’ll find a link to an ROI estimator that will help you get a handle of the cost and savings of deploying Intel® Core 2 Duo with vPro technology and Intel Centrino with vPro technology.

In this peek inside Intel’s IT operations, Intel examines progress against 2007 goals including operational excellence, performance and profitability.  The in-depth report also evaluates key programs including data center efficiency, enterprise resource planning transformation, and IT governance programs.

Intel IT is deploying desktop and mobile PCs that enable out-of-band access to clients.  This white paper explores the implementation, and the resulting reductions in client management costs and the improvements in IT security and inventory accuracy that result.

“Understanding the nature and abilities of our attackers is essential for effective security, but our day-to-day duties require us to think like defenders.”  No, this is not a quote from the Homeland Security operations manual, but a preamble for this IT security wargames presentation by Tim Casey, Senior IT InfoSec Analyst.  Wargaming focuses the attention of multiple experts toward a specific attack goal.  Casey gives the details at a recent Miami Intel Premier IT Professional seminar.

 Find what the bad guys are looking for.  That’s the philosophy behind Intel IT’s wargame exercises in which they ruthlessly attack their own data centers.  Intel IT’s Senior InfoSec Analyst Tim Casey tells how the game is played and what benefits IT can accrue from playing it.

Is “social engineering” another name for a con game?  Is it hacking?  ID theft?  Pretexting? Or all of the above?  Intel IT’s Jackee Ireland, Director of Global Information Security, defines the problem and explains Intel’s three-fold strategy to protect their enterprise.

 Mark Goldsmith, Senior Security Specialist with Intel IT, takes a look at the evolution of risk assessments, at the variety of methods of managing business risk and at Intel’s efforts to align to industry standards.  Then he describes the Information Security Risk Assessment method and the General Business Risk Assessment method and demonstrates a tool to help other IT organizations wishing to do similar assessments.

What are the pros and cons of the rich client vs. the thin client?  Dennis Morgan, Senior Information Security Specialist for Intel IT, explains why there are no easy answers.