Trusted Computing Group Adds Members

The Trusted Computing Group, an open industry standards organization, has added members to work on the organization’s existing, standards based on a hardware root of trust and to address security concerns.

New contributor members, who participate in specification development, include: Accenture, ARM, Battelle Memorial Institute, Nationz Technologies, RedHat, Toyota Motor Corporation. CMS Products, Origin Storage, SerialTek and Via Technologies also have joined TCG as adopter members.

"These companies recognize the importance and benefits of security based on the core concepts of trusted computing," said Brian Berger, TCG director and chair, TCG marketing work group. "The extensive market and technology expertise of new and existing members will allow TCG to extend its well-regarded approach to anchoring security in a root of trust to other computing environments such as embedded systems, virtualized platforms, mobile device security and cloud computing."

TCG’s board of directors is comprised of representatives from Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon Technologies, Intel Corporation, Lenovo Holdings, Microsoft and Wave Systems with Dell and Nokia as elected contributor board members. TCG also recently announced an Associate membership for enterprise users.

More than 500 million PCs and other devices include a Trusted Platform Module. Almost all storage vendors now support TCG’s Opal and enterprise specifications for self-encrypting drives, and TCG’s Trusted Network Connect architecture is supported in hundreds of products from networking infrastructure companies.

TCG provides open standards that enable a safer computing environment across platforms and geographies.