Intel is leveraging its Core vPro processors as a security solution for SMBs. In recent marketing materials, the chipmaker says the Core vPro processors improve and increase security for data protection.
“Your small business customers rely on notebook and desktop PCs to run their most mission-critical applications,” states the company. “For these customers, security is paramount.”
Intel says that choosing the 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family will provide SMBs with “the latest security features for customers’ notebooks and desktops.”
New security features on the Intel Core vPro processors include:
- AES-NI (Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions) Offload—Some of the performance burden of encryption and file encryption can be offloaded, thereby helping to accelerate encryption operations.
- Active Management Technology (Intel AMT)—AMT is designed to enable channel pros to better discover, repair, and protect networked PCs.
- Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT)—This helps build and maintain a “chain of trust” from hardware to a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), according to Intel. This, in turn, helps protect information in virtualized environments from software-based attacks.
- Anti-Theft Technology (Intel AT)—When a PC is lost or stolen, AT disables it, and it can do so regardless of whether that PC is connected to the Internet or a company network.
