Trusted Platform Module: 8 Surprises for IoT Security

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• Written by Ari Singer, CTO, TrustiPhi //
• February 7, 2019 //

Part 1 of a two-part TPM Surprise Series

Built into billions of devices, a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is usually a specialized chip on an endpoint’s motherboard that stores cryptographic keys on behalf of its host system for authentication and protection of the endpoint. TPMs will be architected into billions of Internet of Things devices.

Surprise 1: TPMs are passive, not active devices. They do not control anything on the host system …

Read the full Part One article in IOTWorld