Visual Trustworthy Monitoring System (v-TMS) for Behavior of Trusted Computing

Abstract

As the platform mobility increases, it becomes increasingly susceptible to theft. Stolen data is often regarded as being more valuable than the notebook hardware itself. Thus, the need to protect user data and secrets is underscored in a mobile computing environment. The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is defined as a hardware instantiation which has been proposed by the TCG (Trusted Computing Group) for trust computing. TPM offers facilities for the secure generation of cryptographic keys, and limitations on their use, in addition to a hardware pseudo-random number generator. It also includes capabilities such as remote attestation and sealed storage. A TPM can be used to authenticate hardware devices. Since each TPM chip has a unique and secret RSA key burned in during production, it is capable of performing platform authentication. The TPB (Trusted Platform Board) is an expansion of the TPM for enhancing the efficiency and usability of the TPM chip. In addition to the TPB functions supporting high-standard trust environments within the hardware standard of the system in this paper, we develop the v-TMS (Visual Trustworthy Monitoring System) that provides visualization of real-time monitoring for the behavior of system resources (process, memory, network, users, etc.) with TPB and system software for hardening of OS and applications. Moreover, v-TMS is not only a web-based computing environment for system resources but also a real-time monitoring system for a trust computing environment.