Security First Pledge: An Open Letter from Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, to Technology Industry Leaders
January 11 2018 - 9:57AM
Business Wire
Intel Corporation released the following letter sent to
technology industry leaders by Brian Krzanich, Intel chief
executive officer:
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Brian Krzanich is the chief executive
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Following announcements of the Google Project
Zero security exploits last week, Intel has continued to work
closely with our partners with the shared goal of restoring
confidence in the security of our customers’ data as quickly as
possible. As I noted in my CES comments this week, the degree of
collaboration across the industry has been remarkable. I am very
proud of how our industry has pulled together and want to thank
everyone for their extraordinary collaboration. In particular, we
want to thank the Google Project Zero team for practicing
responsible disclosure, creating the opportunity for the industry
to address these new issues in a coordinated fashion.
As this process unfolds, I want to be clear
about Intel’s commitments to our customers. This is our pledge:
Customer-First Urgency: By Jan. 15, we
will have issued updates for at least 90 percent of Intel CPUs
introduced in the past five years, with updates for the remainder
of these CPUs available by the end of January. We will then focus
on issuing updates for older products as prioritized by our
customers.
Transparent and Timely Communications:
As we roll out software and firmware patches, we are learning a
great deal. We know that impact on performance varies widely, based
on the specific workload, platform configuration and mitigation
technique. We commit to provide frequent progress reports of patch
progress, performance data and other information. These can be
found at the Intel.com website.
Ongoing Security Assurance: Our
customers’ security is an ongoing priority, not a one-time event.
To accelerate the security of the entire industry, we commit to
publicly identify significant security vulnerabilities following
rules of responsible disclosure and, further, we commit to working
with the industry to share hardware innovations that will
accelerate industry-level progress in dealing with side-channel
attacks. We also commit to adding incremental funding for
academic and independent research into potential security
threats.
We encourage our industry partners to
continue to support these practices. There are important roles for
everyone: Timely adoption of software and firmware patches by
consumers and system manufacturers is critical. Transparent and
timely sharing of performance data by hardware and software
developers is essential to rapid progress.
The bottom line is that continued
collaboration will create the fastest and most effective approaches
to restoring customer confidence in the security of their data.
This is what we all want and are striving to achieve.
-- Brian Krzanich
More: Security Exploits and Intel Products (Press Kit) |
Security Research Findings (Intel.com)
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