Phoenix^® TrustedCore™

TrustedCore is the most advanced firmware available and includes capabilities that legacy BIOS solutions cannot offer. TrustedCore SP3B enhances endpoint security by providing secure CRTM (core root of trust measurement, also known as BIOS Boot Block) update through Secure Flash process with the Phoenix Secure Winflash product.

Secure foundation for Endpoint Confidence

TrustedCore™ includes the embedded cryptographic engine, StrongROM, which allows authentication of the firmware itself. TrustedCore™ provides a secure root of trust that can authenticate operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows Vista. StrongROM can complement TPM 1.2 chip in a system to further enhance device security, or provide a level of cryptographic security by itself for systems that do not contain TPM 1.2 chip. Phoenix will also enable StrongROM to support pre-OS security functions via Phoenix TrustedCore Preboot Authentication with HDD Password Lock to support for of ASCII password and smart token support. There is also separate option to achieve TrustedCore Preboot Authentication support for biometric fingerprint sensors. 

Standards-Compliant

TrustedCore™ is fully supporting the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) industry standard. The latest TrustedCore Service Pack (SP3b) will boot Windows XP in EFI 1.10 mode, and boot 64bit version of Microsoft Windows Vista in full UEFI 2.0 mode.  TrustedCore SP3b offers separate UEFI PI DDK for silicon vendors and independent hardware vendors (IHVs), as well as separate UEFI Shell Application SDK at application vendors and OEMs, to enable creation of UEFI 2.0 drivers.

TrustedCore™ is compliant with all other major standards, including USB, PCI, ACPI, 1394, WfM and PC2001.

Rapid Designers

Phoenix® TrustedCore™ is designed for rapid board design and deployment incorporating enhanced security, manageability and built-in device identity.

Features

Onscreen Branding and Startup Screen

StrongROM authentication of CSS and TrustedCore Preboot Authentication with HDD Password Lock (optional product to support 2-factor and multi-factor authentication in preboot environment)

Windows Vista Bitlocker logo compliant – TrustedCore SP3b will support Bitlocker secure CRTM (core root of trust measurement, also known as BIOS Boot Block) update through Phoenix Secure Winflash product

UEFI boot loader and modular EFI