Apr 21 2009
Lenovo Hardware Password Manager
Todays PC systems are protected by 4 basic hardware passwords a user and an admin password for accessing the motherboard and a user and an admin password for accessing the harddisk. In most enterprise environments, these passwords are not used, due to the difficulty in administrating them. As a result, most data is not is not fully secure in design and compute environment.
Lenovo started 4 years ago to address this issue by implementing a bios level solution to the problem. They have just released their hardware password manager that introduced an IP telecom stack into their BIOS. This is a custom modification of the standard Phoenix BIOS that has been provided with their Thinkpad products. Unlike the Intel Vpro solution, this is not a chipset or cpu specific solution, it will eventually support all of their platforms.
Providing these functions to IT administrators so they can remotely manage employee hard drive passwords, including drives that are self-encrypting, the new tool can help companies reduce the time and expense associated with recovering and resetting employee passwords. The BIOS level hardware password manager allows a standard wired network connection to be used to verify, change and support the motherboard and harddisk passwords.
This methodology supports all brands of FDE (Full Disk Encryption) self encrypting drives. The password control works for both local drives and any network attached drives that released at the time the passwords are cleared. This password control also works with fingerprint scanner authentication. The password control for the motherboard controls the powerup control and provides a “ConstantSecure” Remote Disable function which allows a user to remotely disable a machine if lost or stolen the next time it is connected to the internet or attempted to be powered up.
Lenovo Hardware Password Manager will be available worldwide starting in early May. A video link of the product at work can be found at YouTube at: Lenovo Hardware Password Manager
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