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Standards for over Twenty-Five Years

Phoenix has long had a vision for a digital imperative based on non-disruptive innovation for new and installed x86 systems. Phoenix provides the foundation for OEMs, ODMs, ISVs, service providers, enterprises and consumers to meet both the technology and business challenges of our digital future. As a company that has been a steward of standards for over 25 years in the x86 marketplace, Phoenix Technologies is committed to leading the thinking within the entire device ecosystem.

Phoenix Thought Publications

Thought Whitepaper #1 - What You Can Do to Stop the Newest, Most Dangerous Virus Threat.

Today full-time professionals are collaborating to create devastating attacks with the intention of doing as much technical and economic damage as possible. And they know that the best way to bring systems completely down, for as long as possible, is to attack the BIOS. Fortunately, that sort of attack is now completely preventable...download now (requires registration)

Thought Whitepaper #2 - Enhancing and Securing the Next-Generation Pre-OS Environment.

The traditional PC firmware environment is about to undergo a transformation through an emerging cross-platform industry specification called the Extensible Firmware Interface, or EFI. This new model promises simpler development and a more powerful environment for sophisticated core system features like security, manageability, device connectivity and more -- and it enables a "one-size-fits-all" approach to validating and delivering these features to new devices...
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Thought Whitepaper #3 - Trusted Devices Enable Trusted Networks.

Security and trust have become issues not just for the global installed base of enterprise customers and consumers, but also for the broad and deep ecosystem of branded PC suppliers (OEMs), board, component and subsystem developers (ODMs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and internet services providers (ISPs). This ecosystem must come together around a common agenda to meet these threats and capitalize on the new opportunities presented by a world of always-on pervasive computing by demanding built-in or native x86 device authentication as a key ingredient of federated networks today, not at some distant point in the future...
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White Paper - Closing The Disaster Recovery Gap In Financial Services IT

A disaster recovery gap remains in that that desktop and notebook PC workstations upon which most financial services professionals rely continue to be delivered by major manufacturers without built-in recovery capabilities. This is a serious problem in that over 60% of business-critical content
and applications reside on employee machines, not on enterprise servers, according to industry experts... download now (requires registration)

White Paper - Closing The Disaster Recovery Gap In Government IT

To prevent catastrophic systems failure from hostile attacks, government IT leadership has upgraded network security capabilities with advanced firewall, virus protection, intrusion prevention and access control technologies, and implemented regular backup of key server-resident databases. Nevertheless, a disaster recovery gap remains in that that desktop and notebook PC workstations upon which most government professionals rely for day-to-day agency or departmental operations continue to be shipped by major PC manufacturers without built-in system and data recovery capabilities... download now (requires registration)

White Paper - Closing The Disaster Recovery Gap In Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT professionals in patient care organizations of all sizes understand the life and death consequences of business interruption if inadequate or inappropriate care is delivered to patients based on the failure of critical information systems. Driven by regulatory mandates like HIPAA, healthcare IT professionals and their integration partners have made steady progress in developing end-to-end disaster recovery plans for mission critical server based systems managing patient care and patient records. A disaster recovery gap remains in that that desktop and notebook PC workstations upon which most healthcare professionals rely continue to be delivered by major manufacturers without built-in recovery capabilities... download now (requires registration)

White Paper - Closing The Disaster Recovery Gap For The Mobile Workforce

From Global 1000 enterprises to small and medium businesses, the 21st century workforce has gone mobile. Industry experts estimate that up to 1/3 of all knowledge workers now conduct their day-to-day business remotely. IT professionals in organizations of all sizes have adapted their security policies to better manage the vulnerabilities created by the mobile workforce and understand the severe consequences of business interruption if critical digital infrastructure fails due to infected mobile devices with access to secure networks.

This gap around client device recovery for mobile knowledge workers will only widen in the future as infection of notebook systems leading to operating system failure has become a fact of life in the internet age for businesses of all sizes. And the problem is only getting worse...
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White Paper - Reliability, Security and Recovery for Today's Embedded Systems

Developers of networked embedded systems must deal with the same security challenges that plague general-purpose desktop PCs and server. Phoenix Technologies provides a selectable stack of solutions to secure embedded systems from the first electron through the application space--and and to recover faulty systems safely and automatically without the need for installation disks or even a bootable OS.... download now