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3.1 Solution Overview

NIST platform security: roots of trust, firmware and secure enclaves IR 8320A
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This stage of the use case enables the creation of what are called trusted compute pools . Also known as trusted pools , they are physical or logical groupings of computing hardware in a data center that are tagged with specific and varying security policies, and the access and execution of apps and workloads are monitored, controlled, audited, etc. In this phase of the solution, an attested launch of the platform is deemed as a trusted node and is added to the trusted pool.

Figure 1 depicts the concept of trusted pools. The resources tagged green indicate trusted ones. Critical policies can be defined such that security-sensitive cloud services can only be launched on these trusted resources.

Figure 1: Concept of Trusted Compute Pools In order to have a trusted launch of the platform, the two key questions that should be answered are: