Intel ® Hardware Shield Overview
This document covers security features in Intel® Hardware Shield on the Intel vPro® platform. Intel Hardware Shield comes "out of the box" with the Intel vPro platform. Intel Hardware Shield has three groups of security technologies. The three groups are: Below the OS Security, Application and Data Protection and Advanced Threat Detection. Each section in this paper reviews all the technologies in one group, including both software and hardware security capabilities.
Using the GPU for active memory scanning, it leaves the CPU available for users to get work done. Hardware telemetry is used to helps identify threats and detect anomalous activity without compromising end user performance. Intel CET helps protect against ROP/JOP attacks, and Intel TDT provides advanced threat detection against ransomware without compromising performance.