The hardware-based capabilities of Intel vPro technology improve network traffic filtering and isolate clients under attack. Automatic security agents’ verification and immediate remote restoration enhance your preventive security efforts. And with reliable remote power-up functionality, you can deploy off-hours patches faster, speeding up patch saturation by up to 56%. Additionally, the hardware-assisted antivirus protection of Execute Disable Bit protects your PCs from certain viruses that use buffer overflow attacks.
Protecting virtual environments against rootkit and other attacks, Intel® Trusted eXecution Technology - Intel® TXT - (PDF) offers extra protection on PCs with Intel vPro technology and built in Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT). Including an industry-standard TPM 1.2 which can be used by third-party software to store keys and other protected data, Intel TXT enables the PC to boot software into a truest state and also helps protect the integrity of the virtual machine.
PCs with Intel vPro technology can help IT professionals diagnose and repair both wired and wireless systems remotely, cut downtime, and reduce the average in-person IT support time. Intel vPro technology helps perform remote asset tracking and checks the presence of management agents virtually anytime. This functionality allows you to conduct hardware and software inventories up to 94% faster than manually per PC.
As the multi-core engine in Intel vPro technology, 45nm hafnium-based Intel® Core™2 Duo processors can provide over 90% faster performance when multitasking and over 90% faster performance on compute-intensive apps. At the same time, their great energy efficiency enables smaller, quieter systems and delivers great battery life for mobile PCs. These 64-bit PCs offer full support for Windows Vista, including Intel® Graphics Technology support for the Windows Vista Aero interface, and the performance for Microsoft Office 2007 and other next-generation software.
