BIOS maker Phoenix ensures safer servers

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENI CONNOR ON SERVERS
09/08/05
Today's focus: BIOS maker Phoenix ensures safer servers

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* A look at Phoenix Technologies' TrustedCore SP2 firmware
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Today's focus: BIOS maker Phoenix ensures safer servers

By Deni Connor

Phoenix Technologies, one of the major makers of PC and server
BIOS, last week unveiled software to make servers more secure
and reliable.

Phoenix's TrustedCore SP2 firmware for x86-based servers
protects them and their data before the operating system and
applications load. The TrustedCore SP2 platform includes
Phoenix's CoreArchitect development tool, which is designed to
make it easier and faster to bring x86-based products to market.

The TrustedCore SP2 platform also implements requirements of
Microsoft's Windows Vista such as support for the Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface and the Trusted Computing Group's
Trusted Platform Module 1.2, which ensures that malicious code
can't attack a device so early in the boot process that the
server can't thwart the attack. Windows Vista is expected to be
released in late 2005.

TrustedCore enables systems vendors to create trusted and
self-authenticating servers, reassuring government and other
organizations that they are using a trusted device.

Phoenix is making available a set of APIs to let third-party
vendors integrate two-factor authentication devices, such as
biometric fingerprint sensors and smart tokens.

TrustedCore Service Pack 2 has nearly 20 new features. Among
them are authentication of the firmware itself via an embedded
cryptographic engine called StrongROM; authentication of the
master boot record, which prevents tampering with the operating
system or hard disk; and incorporation of the UEFI boot loader.

TrustedCore can be used in Intel 32-bit servers and AMD 64-bit
servers. It is supported by NetWare 5.x and 6.x.

TrustedCore SP2 is expected to ship next month.

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Deni Connor is a Senior Editor at Network World covering
storage, Unix, Novell, Macintosh and IT in Healthcare. You can
reach her at <mailto:dconnor@nww.com>.
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