Last year, at RSA Conference 2023, we highlighted our renewed commitment to improving security outcomes for the industry. Security is a collective effort, as we demonstrated with the introduction of Accelerated by Intel®. We also highlighted new products and services in support of our focus areas: Endpoint Security, Zero Trust Networking, and Confidential Computing. Finally, we described the impact of our Intel Capital portfolio.
As we join our colleagues at RSAC ’24, we are proud of our progress with strong collaborations, advanced capabilities, and an increasing focus on delivering platforms that the industry can confidently build on. I’d like to start with this last point.
Intel’s Product Security 2024: Security to Build On
At Intel, we recognize that our products occupy the most privileged position in the computing stack and our product assurance efforts are a core part of our value proposition. The latest Intel Product Security Report reinforces our commitment to computing you can trust.
In this ever-challenging cybersecurity environment, it’s more important than ever to build on the strongest foundation; protecting critical systems and data requires technology you trust. To facilitate customer decision-making, we commissioned ABI Research to evaluate the product security assurance investments and maturity of top silicon vendors. Intel scored highest across the silicon industry, reinforcing that we are leading the industry when it comes to hardware-based security.
The Evolving Role of AI in Security
Security has already evolved beyond the scale or ability of humans to triage increasingly sophisticated attacks. It’s well known that Security Operation Centers have alert fatigue and need better tools to automate analysis and remediation spanning edge to cloud infrastructure. AI automation and new threat insights will be game-changing. Here’s how we see this evolving in three domains:
1: AI for Security
With Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT), we pioneered the first use of AI on client and edge to detect ransomware and other threats. This leverages our CPU telemetry and AI models run on our GPUs, helping protect billions of Intel PCs in deployment today. Intel, Dell, and CrowdStrike showcased how multiple layers of security contribute to defense in depth. Now, we are deeply engaged with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) leaders like CrowdStrike to prove the art of possible with proof-of-concept designs that deploy deep learning on client PCs. CrowdStrike is using the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) in our latest AI PCs with Intel® Core™ Ultra processors to classify malware on the fly at the endpoint, which removes the burden from humans to author detection trend analysis rules. This also helps preserve privacy by keeping user data local, where browsing habits should remain private, and drive faster remediations without the latency associated with cloud-based analysis.
2: AI for Security Operations (SecOps)
Security ISVs are already deploying SecOps assistants to better triage incidents, such as Microsoft Copilot for Security and CrowdStrike Charlotte AI. Intel is driving key performance improvements on both server and client-side applications to help scale industry adoption. Our AI for Security capabilities, combined with our hardware protections above and below the OS, are key data feeds for SecOps AI assistants. We foresee custom workflows built into these assistants to help admins better understand and triage threats happening across their Intel vPro® fleets. Further out, we see AI assistants driving the ability to generate code that helps analysts heal and fix infrastructure to respond to vulnerabilities and threats. Intel is also using Intel® Device Health to provide below-the-OS vulnerability insights and our chip-to-cloud vPro solutions to be enabled by AI services for automated remediations.
3: Security for AI
We are in the early stages of attacks on AI models and data, but at the forefront of solving this challenge is Intel’s Confidential AI. Google Cloud recently announced Confidential Accelerators for AI workloads, designed so customers can easily port workloads to a confidential environment and collaborate with partners on joint analyses while keeping data private.
Confidential computing is designed to enable data sharing across on-premise, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, edge devices, cloud servers, and multi-party collaborations, even when using private, sensitive, and regulated data. This can be combined with Intel® Tiber™ Trust Services, designed for enhanced security and assurance with zero trust independent attestation SaaS that verifies the trustworthiness of compute assets at the network, edge, and in the cloud.
As a founding member of the Confidential Computing Consortium, Intel is also collaborating with MITRE ATLAS to help define a standardized AI threat model from edge to cloud. By working with industry leaders on this AI-focused framework, we can apply our hardware-enabled security and software capabilities to this framework, so SecOps understands where Intel helps keep AI safe.
Ecosystem Collaborations: Building on Accelerated by Intel®
Intel is uniquely positioned to lead the technology industry in a security evolution due to our product portfolio and end-to-end ownership in product development. Yet all our efforts would be incomplete without ecosystem partners who integrate our products into solutions that address critical security issues, as well as the future ecosystems we’re investing in to solve tomorrow’s challenges. Intel’s vision is to empower the ecosystem to build leading-edge security technologies on our platforms, so they can meet customers’ unique security needs. This is evident when looking at the solutions available at this year’s conference from our ecosystem, including:
- Arqit (Booth 5377) – demonstrating hardware acceleration for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) on Arqit’s Symmetric Key Agreement Platform™.
- CASwell Inc. (Booth 5178) – Showcasing platforms delivering AI-enabled network security based on the latest Intel processors, including the CASwell CAR-4070, CAF-0120, and CAF-0121.
- Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) (Booth 2161) – Intel is a founding member of CCC, which brings together hardware vendors, cloud providers, and software developers to accelerate the adoption of Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies and standards.
- CrowdStrike (Booth 6144) – Join CrowdStrike, Intel, and fellow co-sponsors at the Next Wave Mixer and Partner Live! Breakfast events.
- ESET (Booth 1761) – Hear how Intel’s investments in hybrid architecture, the AI PC and Intel TDT, combined with ESET’s portfolio, can help minimize the attack surface, accelerate workloads and improve platform efficiency. More info @ eset.com.
- F5 (Booth 4535) – Intel technology helps boost the power and performance of F5's application delivery services and solutions resulting in powerful, faster, and more secure digital experiences.
- Fortanix (Booth 1261) – Learn how PQC, Secure AI, and practical strategies to address the latest security issues (Wed, 5/8 @ 11:00am).
- Fortinet (Booth 5762) – Arqit and Intel are presenting on PQC at the Fortinet booth.
- HiddenLayer – HiddenLayer and Intel are co-sponsoring this year’s ‘Women of FIERCE’ cybersecurity breakfast event at RSA. Check out our co-authored ebook: The Future of Risk is Upon Us And We Can Manage It if We Secure AI.
- Intel Capital - Intel Capital is sponsoring the NYSE Networking Reception hosted by OpenPolicy and NYSE, in collaboration with Elastic and SiliconANGLE. This networking event features prominent CISOs, government and security leaders, and emerging cyber technology startups from our ecosystem and the Intel Capital Portfolio.
- IBASE Technology Inc (Booth 6560) – Delivering a new generation of network and security appliances with value-driven compute, based on the Intel Atom® x7000RE Processor Series for the Edge and Intel Atom® x7000C Processor Series for Network.
- Lanner Electronics (Booth 4405) – Showcasing new products based on 5th gen Intel® Xeon® scalable processors, AI-based next-generation firewalls powered by Intel Core, and the N2S-IPU01 NetSec Acceleration card inspired by the Intel® NetSec Accelerator Reference Design.
- McAfee – Intel collaborated on enhancements to its AI-powered McAfee Deepfake Detector, leveraging the power of the NPU in Intel® Core™ Ultra processor-based PCs.
- Synack –Synack, Intel, and fellow co-sponsors are hosting an evening reception at Fogo de Chão.
- Thales (Booth 6265) – Learn how Intel and Thales collaborate to enable end-to-end data protection for the deployment of sensitive workloads in the cloud, including the Google Cloud ecosystem.
- Versa Networks (Booth 760) – Versa and Intel will discuss the evolution of PQC, network security AI, and Service Access Service Edge (SASE).
- Xcitium – Xcitium is expanding its integration of Intel TDT to its entire product portfolio to defeat ransomware and cyber-attacks for SMB, Enterprise, and MSP/MSSP customers.
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Security has never been more challenging or more complex. Organizations need someone they can trust to help build security from the ground up. The company you know as the foundation for modern computing is the company you can trust to secure it.
We hope you visit us or our collaborators at RSAC 2024. For more information, please read The Best Defenders for Your Business: A Guide to Intel Cybersecurity Partners or visit intel.com/security.
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