Intel Editorial: Advancing Industrywide Compute Lifecycle Assurance
04 Dicembre 2019 - 07:00PM
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Assurance Begins with Security-First Design
and Extends Throughout the Compute Lifecycle
The following is an opinion editorial from Leslie Culbertson of
Intel Corporation.
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Leslie S. Culbertson is an executive vice
president and general manager of Product Assurance and Security at
Intel Corporation. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
The globalization of technology design, development,
manufacturing and distribution has created an environment of
complicated supply chains with limited transparency. There is a
growing need to provide assurances of platform integrity in every
stage of the compute lifecycle, and to do so in a manner that is as
transparent as possible. Government agencies, commercial
organizations and consumers deserve this transparency and the
benefit it can bring for improved platform security and
resiliency.
This presents both an incredible challenge and opportunity for
the ecosystem. Today, Intel is responding to the challenge with the
introduction of our Compute Lifecycle Assurance Initiative.
We have tackled big, complex problems like this before and we
are doing it again. Intel has already taken several important steps
toward supply chain transparency. We actively led and collaborated
with the industry to influence policies and processes concerning
the use of conflict-free minerals — not only for Intel products —
but across the industry. In addition, we have already developed a
set of policies and procedures at our own factories to validate
where and when every component of a server was manufactured. These
examples represent an important beginning, and there is more that
can be done.
In today’s increasingly complex environment, we want to provide
our customers with a full range of tools and solutions that deliver
assurances of integrity throughout the entire lifetime of a
platform. This starts with a security-first approach to design. It
continues as platforms change custody, ownership and physical
location several times during their assembly, transportation and
provisioning. Once operational, they may then require updates for
optimal performance and security. Finally upon retirement from
service, platforms should ensure the confidentiality of data that
was transmitted, erased or stored.
The industry needs an end-to-end framework that can be applied
across this multiyear life of any platform. And that is our goal
with the Compute Lifecycle Assurance Initiative — to substantially
improve transparency and to provide higher levels of assurance that
improve integrity, resilience and security during the entire
platform lifecycle.
More: Introduction to Compute Lifecycle Assurance |
Security News at Intel
We have identified four key lifecycle stages: build, transfer,
operate and retire. Over the next year, we commit to:
- Invest in tools and processes that improve the integrity of
Intel computing products across every lifecycle stage, building on
the Transparent Supply Chain tools we have today.
- Contribute best practices, learned from our decades of
experience, for the collection, measurement, stewardship and
reporting of platform data to meet our customers’ evolving
needs.
- Collaborate with the ecosystem to develop innovative ways that
enhance access to platform data while maintaining confidentiality
of that data across the platform lifecycle.
Challenges to overcome
Worldwide, policymakers have begun to focus on supply chain
risks in new ways. In August 2018, MITRE published the highly
influential report, Deliver Uncompromised. MITRE’s report described
the urgency and importance for supply chain risks to receive
attention during product procurement. New U.S. laws, including the
2018 SECURE Technology Act, gave U.S. federal agencies new
authority to consider supply chain risks when procuring products.
From Europe’s “digital sovereignty” efforts to Japan’s
“Cyber/Physical Security Framework” efforts, there are signs of
strong interest in shining a spotlight on the trust and
transparency of supply chains for information and communications
technology.
We believe a broader set of commercial enterprises from around
the world will find value in this level of assurance for
validation, compliance and governance. In the next 12 to 18 months,
we expect to see growing interest from our customers, partners and
government oversight organizations to improve transparency beyond
the manufacturing supply chain to also include transportation,
provisioning, attestation and in-field updates.
We’re in a unique and fortunate position as a trusted member of
the ecosystem and as a leader in the transparency of our own supply
chain. We intend to use this position to help mobilize the industry
at large and to anticipate the needs of our global — and mutual —
customers.
These are early days, and we know we can’t do this alone. We
invite the broader ecosystem to join us on this journey. Together
with our partners and customers, we will continue to build a more
trusted foundation for all computing systems.
Leslie S. Culbertson is an executive vice president and general
manager of Product Assurance and Security at Intel Corporation.
About Intel
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