With Gates Leading The Call, IT Vendors Eye Cooperation On IT Security

Perhaps the best example today of collaboration among IT vendors to improve security is the Trusted Computing Group, an alliance of more than 120 companies led by Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun. It has succeeded in getting a dedicated encryption and digital signature chip, the Trusted Platform Module, inside almost every business PC sold in the United States. At last week's RSA Conference on security, the group showed prototypes that use the chip to secure networking and make storage more secure, too. There's just one big problem for the computing group: The chip comes disabled by default, and it's not supported by Windows. Most people don't even know that they have one, let alone use it. It's an apt illustration of the state of collaboration in security today. While collaboration was one of the main topics of discussion at the RSA Conference, with some real products to back it up, it's clear that such security efforts have a long way to go.

Source - Security Pipeline