The Challenge Ahead

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The Challenge Ahead

• Trust Integrity

Janet Chambers and Colin Jackson
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Trusted Computing DRM

• What are these technologies all about?
• Why should we care about them?
• What have we done to date?
• Where to from here?

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6 key messages

• Emerging technologies Here now. Will be
  ubiquitous.
• Significant implications re integrity of
  government info.
• Implications will vary agency to agency
• Need government-wide policies practices
• Control use of DRM - in short term
• We will work with you over the coming year

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The 3 largest computer makers (Dell,
Hewlett-Packard and IBM) are selling computers
with Trusted Computing hardware.More than 20
million are expected to be sold this year.
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Security is the driver

• Combination of hardware and software
• Benefits
• Protect confidential data
• Trace leaks. Espionage difficult
• Software licensing strengthened
• Control over information
• Less work for users

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Risks

• May allow a computer to know who is using it and
  what they are doing . . . and report on this
  to third parties
• May limit future access to information

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What we have done so far

• Research
• International liaison
• Trusted Computing Steering Group
• Advice to keep DRM off government systems
• Trusted Computing Working Group

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Next steps

• Ongoing research
• Practical advice to block DRM at agency firewalls
• Development of draft government-wide principles
• Consultation
• Policies and perhaps standards
• Ongoing international liaison

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Colin Jackson
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Discussion

• Is a page like this appropriate for the New
  Zealand government?
• Should we set one up centrally and link from
  agency sites?
• What should it say?

colin.jackson_at_ssc.govt.nz
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