But if someone gets your passwords and seems to be coming from a trusted source, encryption and firewalls can be thwarted, he said.

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For the business user the X1 Carbon Touch provides peace of mind for any situation with state of the art security and manageability including vPro, Integrated Fingerprint Reader, Trusted Platform Module and BIOS encryption.

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AOL, which will eventually add data-encryption, content-security and trusted-partner features to their own messaging software.

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Many of the units introduce at the show have Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), which support hardware encryption.

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The Microsoft Windows 8 operating system will bring the Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs, the basis of storage device-based encryption security as well as additional security features) to wider use for enterprise applications.

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