Infineon Security Platform Initialization Wizard

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Infineon Security Platform Solution - Initialization Wizard

Infineon Security Platform Initialization Wizard

The Infineon Security Platform Initialization Wizard is intended for experts to initialize the Security Platform and to configure Security Platform Features (backup including Emergency Recovery, Password Reset, Enhanced Authentication, BitLocker). These operations are needed to enable the Infineon Security Platform functionality and provide the basis for all further activities on the Infineon Security Platform.
If you want to quickly initialize your Security Platform and User with default settings, you are recommended to use Quick Initialization Wizard instead.

Instead of initializing a new Security Platform, you can also restore a damaged Security Platform by selecting Restore a Security Platform from a Backup Archive.

This is the first wizard that must be run to set up an Infineon Security Platform.

Availability of wizard:
  • This wizard is only available, if the current user has administrative rights.
  • This wizard is only available, if the policy Allow Platform Enrollment is enabled with the option Allow Management provider and wizard, or if this policy is not configured (same conditions apply if you start this wizard from the Taskbar Notification Icon). Note this policy is only in effect if the Security Platform is not initialized before.
  • If the Security Platform has been initialized before, the policy is not in effect and this wizard can be used to configure the Security Platform features (same conditions apply if you start this wizard from the Taskbar Notification Icon).
  • The wizard is not available in server mode as the Security Platform gets automatically initialized if the client system is integrated into a Trust Domain with centralized management.

Wizard Steps

Step Comment
1. Enable Trusted Platform Module Only if the Trusted Platform Module is currently not enabled.
2. Initialize or restore? Only if the Security Platform is not yet initialized.
3. Setup ownership or Owner Password Only if the Security Platform is not yet initialized.
Depending on the Security Platform state, the Owner Password is set or verified.
4. Features Backup including Emergency Recovery, Password Reset, Enhanced Authentication, BitLocker.
5. Backup Only if the feature Backup was selected.
6. Emergency Recovery Only if the feature Backup was selected.
7. Password Reset Only if the feature Password Reset was selected.
8. BitLocker Only if the feature BitLocker was selected.
Only if the BitLocker state is Configured, Reconfiguration required, Encrypting or Decrypting.

  • This feature is only available if the Operating System supports BitLocker Drive Encryption (e.g. for Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista).
  • This page is not available in server mode. However you can configure BitLocker via Microsoft BitLocker Control Panel Applet.
9. Enhanced Authentication Only if the Security Platform already had been initialized, when the wizard was started.
Only if the feature Enhanced Authentication was selected.
10. Dictionary Attack Defense Only available on Security Platforms with a Infineon Trusted Platform Module 1.2.
Only if the feature Dictionary Attack Defense was selected.

Application Startup

If the Security Platform is not yet initialized: From the Taskbar Notification Icon, click on menu item Security Platform Initialization. Quick Initialization Wizard will start. In the Welcome page, select Advanced Initialization. Security Platform Initialization Wizard will be started.

If the Security Platform is already initialized: Start the Security Platform Initialization Wizard via the Settings Tool.


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