Symantec Teams With Intel On Authentication Security
Symantec is tapping new security features within Intel's second-generation Core processors to help boost usage of the security company's authentication products that are designed to prevent users from becoming victims of malicious Web sites.
The company is among the first security firms to offer products that leverage Intel's Identity Protection Technology. IPT makes it possible for Symantec to embed in Intel's chipset the credential that supporting Web sites would use to identify the PC user.
Symantec is offering the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) to computer makers who would offer the product as an option to customers. Symantec has not said which computer makers will be offering the product. VIP essentially sets up what's known as a "soft token" on a PC, so that every time a user visits a supporting Web site, his computer has to generate and send to the site a string of numbers to allow access. The ID string is sent after a person logs in to the site using his usual user ID and password.
