Intel announced its new technology
Intel Authenticate which is designed only to curb and foil hackers who use fake
email ID’s to lure employees into giving in their usernames and passwords. The
authentication system, which will use the multi-factor authentication – a
system which uses more than one method to identify a user, will be a part of
the company’s sixth generation processors.
Intel Authenticate is also allow
future corporate IT managers to replace the long and ever-changing passwords
with a rather short personal identification number, among other identification
procedures that may include bio-metric identification systems and so on such as
the fingerprint system, location of the building the employee is in and other
systems such as the proximity of the employee’s mobile or badge etc.
IT managers also have the option to
choose the features to be embedded into the chip. Tom Garrison, Intel Vice
President said, “IT has full power”.
Now, Intel will add Authenticate to
all the processors that it will sell for all enterprise computers. However, the
chips embedded with Authenticate will enter production after being tested by
some businesses.
That an estimated 117,000 corporate
cyber-attacks occur every day and involve phishing for the username and
password. Phishing is a method used to trick people into revealing their
usernames and passwords. The biggest advantage of including Authenticate into
the chips is the inherent inclusion of an element of security in the PC. In
other words, the PC itself becomes a part of the security system. Industry
analyst Patrick Moor-head of Moor Insights and Strategy supported this by
saying:
One of the biggest keys to this is
there is a secure element inside the Intel processor that manages all of this.
That wasn’t available before. A lot of different pieces had to come together.
Hardware is a lot harder to get into.
Even if someone obtained the
password, he would be blocked by layers of additional security stashed inside the
computer’s processor
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