Trusted Computing Group Unveils Mobile Phone Security Use Cases; Initiative Offers Road Map of Standardized Mobile Phone Security for Protection of Data and Content.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- The Trusted Computing Group See TCG. , a nonprofit industry association that creates open industry specifications that vendors use to create more secure computing For the general concept, see . Secure Computing Corporation, or SCC, is a public company (NASDAQ: SCUR) that develops and sells computer security products, such as:
The organization's mission is to provide specifications as building blocks for virtually every device that touches a network. With mobile phone handset and related application growth exploding worldwide, security has become a concern because many new phones are used for computing tasks, Internet connectivity, e-commerce or content delivery. Just as with PCs, these phones potentially can be hosts or transmitters of viruses and malware and subject to virtual and physical theft. TCG's mobile phone work group, whose active members include Authentec, Ericsson, France Telecom, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Infineon, Intel, Lenovo, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Samsung, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , VeriSign, Vodaphone and Wave Systems, has been working to identify critical security issues, standardized approaches to them, and implementation of Trusted Computing Trusted Computing (also abbreviated TC) is a technology developed and promoted by the Trusted Computing Group. The term is taken from the field of trusted systems and has a specialized meaning. concepts. "Security is increasingly important to the users, manufacturers, service providers and application providers for the increasingly complex mobile phone ecosystem and requires an industry-standard approach to ensure consistent and rapid deployment," noted Janne Uusilehto, chairman, TCG (Trusted Computing Group, Beaverton, OR, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org) The successor to the Trusted Computer Platform Alliance (TCPA), announced in 2003 by founding members AMD, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. Mobile Phone Work Group and head of product security technologies, Nokia. "TCG's experience, expert members and cross-industry membership make it an ideal organization to drive standards for more secure mobile phones." Today's document defines the usage of mobile phones in trusted environments. It is intended to guide development of the future specification and to solicit industry input to ensure TCG is meeting industry needs for security. The use cases defined include: --Platform integrity to ensure the hardware and software are in a state intended by the manufacturer. --Device authentication to protect and store identities of users and bind the device to the appropriate user. --Digital rights management implementation to protect content on the phone. --SIMlock/device personalization to ensure a device is locked to its network and prevents device theft. --Secure software download to enable the safe download of updates, patches and other software. --Secure channel between the device and UTMS UTMS Unit Training Management System (US Army) UTMS Uvula Tongue Malposture Syndrome Integrated Circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for Card (UICC UICC Union International Contre le Cancer International Union against Cancer ) to help avoid malicious software that can interfere with applications or otherwise compromise it. --Mobile ticketing to enable the secure download of tickets and manage them. --Mobile payment to enable the secure execution of payments. --Software use to ensure that software is safe, and if not can be removed, replaced or not executed. --User data protection and privacy to allow users to prevent their information from being accessed or viewed by unauthorized entities and to give users access to services or data that might not require personal information. The complete use cases and a summary of them are available today online at www.trustedcomputinggroup.org. About TCG TCG is an industry standards body formed to develop, define, and promote open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced for trusted computing and security technologies, including hardware building blocks and software interfaces, across multiple platforms, peripherals, and devices. TCG specifications are designed to enable more secure computing environments without compromising functional integrity with the primary goal of helping users to protect their information assets from compromise due to external software attack and physical theft. More information and the organization's specifications are available at the Trusted Computing Group's Web site, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org. 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