HP Labs release BIOSphere for Enterprise against Malware Attacks

[Ink]

Read News Advisory (HP) - "HP Unveils Industry’s First and Only Self-Healing BIOS Security Solution"
New HP BIOSphere with SureStart technology helps enterprises protect against malware, security attacks.

Key features and benefits

• Industry-leading firmware protection against Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS)
  attacks, ensuring customers will not need to replace or reinstall hardware.
• Provides detection and automatic recovery of the firmware system in the case of a PC 
  BIOS malware corruption or compromise, restoring the user session in about 30 
  seconds or less and safeguarding hardware against data loss.
• HP security and reliability improvements are delivered directly to customers via the 
  web or customer’s internal web site, ensuring confidence in the PC BIOS rollout; PC 
  BIOS version standard may be enforced across the organization. 
• Fewer help desk calls for crisis recovery or bricked units.

Availability

• HP SureStart technology will begin rolling out globally on HP EliteBooks starting this fall.

 

[souhrid]

Earth sorry to ask I didn't understand availability ,does existing hp users have any benefit will it be available??or introduce this into only their upcoming models??

 

[Ink]

Most likely in new models of EliteBook only, next month.