Introduction

Infineon Security Platform

Infineon Security Platform Solution

Introduction

The Security Platform Solution Software is a comprehensive set of tools that takes advantage of the Infineon Trusted Platform Module embedded in your system. This solution provides services to easily create digital certificates using the Infineon Trusted Platform Module and to manage these certificates. You can use the certificates to:

  • Send and receive secure e-mail from e-mail clients like Microsoft Windows Mail/Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Set up browser (e.g. Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) and web server (e.g. Microsoft Internet Information Server) for Client Authentication
  • Sign Microsoft Word macros
  • Encrypt files and folders
  • Secure network connections

User secrets can be migrated onto other computers to provide full security on additional computers.

The Infineon Security Platform Solution Software includes the following components:

  • Security Platform Settings Tool
  • Security Platform Quick Initialization Wizard
  • Security Platform Initialization Wizard
  • Security Platform User Initialization Wizard
  • Security Platform Migration Wizard
  • Security Platform Backup Wizard
  • Security Platform Password Reset Wizard
  • Security Platform PKCS #12 Import Wizard
  • Security Platform Certificate Viewer and Certificate Selection
  • Security Platform Taskbar Notification Icon
  • Security Platform Integration Services
  • Security Platform Services
  • Server Integration Services
  • Personal Secure Drive

Apart from providing information on installing the Infineon Security Platform Solution Software, this document will help you to make optimal use of your Infineon Trusted Platform Module and the Infineon Security Platform Solution Software to perform tasks such as:

In addition to this, this document will also help enterprise administrators to perform tasks such as:

A very important task to be carried out is the administration of the Backup and Emergency Recovery functionality. This feature is handled during Security Platform Initialization and does not affect the general security features listed above. This process is important to avoid losing data in the case of computer failure.

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