With hundreds of millions of electronic (11)taking place daily, businesses and organizations have a strong incentive to protect the. (12) of the data exchanged in this manner, and to positively ensure the (13) of those involved in the transactions. This has led to an industry-wide quest for better, more secure methods for controlling IT operations,and for deploying strong security mechanisms deeply and broadly throughout networked infrastructures and client devices. One of the more successful concepts to engage the imaginations of the security community has been the development of standards-based security(14) that can be incorporated in the hardware design of client computers. The principle of encapsulating core security capabilities in (15) and integrating security provisions at the deepest levels of the machine operation has significant benefits for both users and those responsible for securing IT operations.

To compete in today's fast-paced competitive environment, organizations are increasingly allowing contractors, partners, visitors and guests to access their internal enterprise networks.These users may connect to the network through wired ports in conference rooms or offices, or via wireless access points. In allowing this open access for third parties, LANs become(6) .Third parties can introduce risk in a variety of ways from connecting with an infected laptop to unauthorized access of network resources to(7)activity. For many organizations, however,the operational complexity and costs to ensure safe third party network access have been prohibitive. Fifty-two percent of surveyed CISOs state that they currently use a moat and castle's security approach, and admit that defenses inside the perimeter are weak. Threats from internal users are also increasingly a cause for security concerns. Employees with malicious intent can launch (8) of service attacks or steal (9) information by snooping the network. As they access the corporate network, mobile and remote users inadvertently can infect the network with (10) and worms acquired from unprotected public networks. Hackers masquer-ading as internal users can take advantage of weak internal security to gain access to confidential information.