Trustworthy Platforms - Problems, Promises, Concepts, Practical
Realities and Research Opportunities
Geroge Cox, Intel
Our computing platforms, from cell phones to servers, find
themselves under ever more aggressive and tenacious attack. As we
continue to become more dependent on these platforms in our daily
lives, we naturally want to be able to trust that they will not fail
under these attacks. Building a basis for being able to trust the
robustness of our computing platforms is the subject of this
talk. Topics covered will include the problems, promises, concepts,
practical realities, and research opportunities in the Trustworthy
Platform arena. Of particular interest are methods for dealing with
legacy, system integration, and manageability issues.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. George Cox is strategist/architect with multiyear focus on use of
security technologies to solve trustworthy platform and distributed
system problems. George's current responsibilities center on defining
and driving several of Intels security and manageability
initiatives. During his 29-year career at Intel, George has played a
variety of leadership and management roles across a range of
technology, product, academic, and business development programs aimed
at creating innovative solutions to system level problems.
Examples include:
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The Trusted Research Platform program including work with the Trusted Computing
Group (TCG), Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux), and early hardware security
efforts leading to Intel's LaGrande Technology program;
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The Common Data Security Architecture (CDSA) program - an Open Group standard
with worldwide open source reference distribution via SourceForge;
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The Tamper Resistant Software program;
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Intel Architecture Lab's initial Internet program resulting in the initial
http://www.intel.com Web site;
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The iWarp systolic array supercomputer program (jointly funded by Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) /Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
)/Intel);
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The follow-on Super Computer InterConnect program which developed the
communication interconnect for the Intel TFLOPS supercomputer;
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The iAPX-432 program; and
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Consultation on numerous Intel Capital pre-IPO investments;
George holds MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Purdue
University and a BA degree in Mathematics from the University of
Texas, Austin. George is based at Intel's facility in Hillsboro,
Oregon
Tuesday 01/17/2006 1630 hrs at Gates 4B (opposite 490)