To increase our ability to maintain, manage, and protect PCs while reducing management costs, Intel IT is undertaking a multi-year program to implement Intel vPro technology throughout our environment.

Intel vPro technology delivers new abilities to securely manage PCs over networks. It also provides an infrastructure and a set of capabilities that can be used to implement a broad range of additional management and security functions.

With this in mind, a team of Intel IT security specialists set out to identify significant new security use cases that we could implement using Intel vPro technology. The team focused on high-priority, high-value areas and identified a total of 10 use cases in three main categories:

• e-Discovery and investigations
• Data protection and loss prevention, including preventing malicious use, wiping corporate data from PCs, and detecting dual-boot systems and unauthorized peripherals
• System health and updates

With Intel vPro technology, we can perform each of these security uses remotely using features such as remote, redirected boot; console redirect; and agent presence checking. This could deliver benefits such as fewer labor-intensive deskside visits, increased security, and greater user productivity.

We successfully conducted lab tests to validate each use case. As we continue to install PCs with Intel vPro technology throughout our environment, we plan to further investigate these use cases for enterprise deployment.