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Trusted Computing Group Announces Japan Regional Forum to Facilitate Local Interaction and Support for Adoption of Trusted Computing

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 00:00 CDT

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an industry organization that develops specifications to enable computing security across the enterprise, today announced it has established its TCG Japan Regional Forum (JRF). TCG members also will participate at the Interop Tokyo conference next week, where they will demonstrate a number of enterprise security applications.

The new regional forum is a pilot program for the Trusted Computing Group, which has some 135 members from hardware, software, applications, networking and mobile communications companies worldwide. The forum will facilitate communication, adoption and promotion of Trusted Computing in Japan, which has had a key role in the development of information and communication technology, security technologies and services. Forum participants are expected to have a leading role in defining the next-generation trusted computing environment.

Among planned activities for the regional forum are additional promotion of Trusted Computing capabilities and applications in Japan, building market awareness in Japan, input of local market requirements, and translation of some Trusted Computing Group documents. Specifications will continue to be developed in TCG's technical work groups including those for the Trusted Platform Module, Trusted Network Connect, Trusted Storage and others. More information and documents will be online at http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/about/japan.

"TCG has had strong support from companies in Japan who are developing products and driving adoption of Trusted Computing technologies. This regional forum will further enable local-language communication among TCG members and help promote the many useful benefits of Trusted Computing in this important geography," noted Scott Rotondo, president, TCG board of directors and security architect, Sun Microsystems.

During Interop Tokyo, member companies Aruba Networks, Fujitsu Limited, Infoblox, Insight International Corp., Intel Japan, Juniper Networks, Lumeta Corporation, and Wave Systems are showing implementations of Trusted Computing, including the new Trusted Network Connect Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) specification, a trust infrastructure with risk judgment capability, trusted storage, and the Trusted Platform Module with platform trust services for integrity assurance. These will be shown in booth #4D28 June 11-13, 2008.

TCG members also will speak on Trusted Computing applications and benefits at two sessions during Interop Tokyo.

At the event's Educational Conference on June 12, 2:00 p.m., Jun Takei, Intel Japan; Seigo Kotani, Fujitsu Limited; and Toru Konno, Juniper Networks, will discuss Trusted Computing, including network security and the Trusted Platform Module. Also on June 12 at 4:15 p.m., Steve Hanna, co-chair of the TCG Trusted Network Connect work group and Juniper Networks distinguished engineer, will speak on open standards for network security and Trusted Network Connect network access control.

Trusted Computing Group, an industry organization that enables computing security, has created a portfolio of specifications to enable more secure computing across the enterprise. These specifications are implemented by manufacturers of PCs, servers, networking gear, applications and other software, hard drives and embedded devices.

More information and the organization's specifications and work groups are available at the Trusted Computing Group's website, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org. A new blog, at www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/blog, offers commentary from work group chairs and experts in the fields of computing and security.

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Source: Business Wire

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