(note: still trying out this "running notes" experiment; lemme know if its useful or a waste of time.)
The Ecosystem of En-Scub
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(walkin' in midway through)
flow between Smart Card - TPM (TCPA) - and En-Scub....
the combined three protects against basically all threat models with the exception of an insider software attack and an insider hardware attack.
Target Markets: Vertical Sementation (a graph where axis X is security exposure and Y is Size of companies/security spending)
highlighted companies: gov't, financial, healthcare, legal, insurance (high on the graph); prof. svcs, telecom, pharma (medium on the graph); education, manufacturing, retail (low on the graph). (See my just posted article, "Where to draw the line?" Guessed right on that one! ;-)
What makes them "high" on the graph: a distributed environment, privacy issues, significant amount of customer/client data, focus on ensuring hiearchy of info access, managing secure/non-repudiatable interactions.
what else contributes: remote access, secure collaboration.
Customer quotes regarding En-Scub: from healthcare, pharma, investment banking and general global 1000 enterprise. No names of companies provided. All point to the same need for a "virtual walled garden."
En-Scub and Smart Cards make each other better
EJN: I repeat....how long till Microsof acquires a Smart Card company? (for their software not hardware)
corp, gov and vertical opps follow; mass consumer and e-commerce opp to follow.
Distributed computation involving money, rights, property or expectations -- impacted by "trust" in systems; large scale growth opp for PC space.
Provides a tangible reason to buy a new PC; "Trusted" brands; Product leadership.
"TCPA,TCG and NGSCB": msft founding member of tcpa and tcg; focus is on the next spec TPM 1.2 (security support component in the En-Scub space).
TPM1.1 in the market; TPM1.2 availavle q1/04; En-Scub 1.0 with TPM 1.2 - future version of Windows.
EJN: never been to a conference like this. the presentations are meant to convince the audience to include En-Scub in their product plans. interesting approach. I wonder how the difference between RSA and this happens (did RSA start as this?)
Info at: www.microsoft.com/ngscb
email: ngscb_qa@microsoft.com
Industry Perspectives on NGSCB
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(done by Gartner)
2003 spending on IT 868B per year in US (growth 03-06 at 6.2%)
Latin American growing at 8.8%
Hardware segment: PC 185B per year; Cell phones 100B per year (2 biggest markets).
Real-time enterprise: movement of biz systems to real-time.
E-business will fuel spending in tech industry by 2005. Next generation of IT generate cash (via realtime savings) and revenue.
PC evolution: replacement cycles lengthen; buy on price, service support - not technology; design evolution continues; pda, wireless, convergence offer new opps; vendors focused on realtime biz will gain; pc disposal becoming important.
Separated computing model: trust required for biz implementation....can bring windows capability to a broad array of clients.
En-scub enables platform-level encryption; encrypted harddrives.
Security opps: "push money" (paypal), trust based biz models, anonymous transactions (?), secure email, global financial freedom. Trusted platforms create these opps.
EJN: whew! End of the day, and this gartner presentation isn't the *most* exciting thing ever...
Posted by ejnorlin at May 6, 2003 04:24 PM