Table6.Securitymenuitems(continued)
Menuitem
Submenuitem
Value
Comments
SecurityChip
•Active
•Inactive
•Disabled
IfyouselectActive,thesecuritychipisfunctional.
IfyouselectInactive,theSecurityChipoption
isvisible,butthesecuritychipisnotfunctional.If
youselectDisabled,theSecurityChipoptionis
hiddenandthesecuritychipisnotfunctional.
SecurityReporting
Options
EnableordisablethefollowingSecurityReporting
Options:
•BIOSROMStringReporting:BIOStextstring
•CMOSReporting:CMOSdata
•NVRAMReporting:Securitydatastoredin
theAssetID
•SMBIOSReporting:SMBIOSdata
ClearSecurityChip
•Enter
Cleartheencryptionkey.
Note:Thisitemisdisplayedonlyifyouhave
selectedActivefortheSecurityChipoption.
IntelTXTFeature•Disabled
•Enabled
EnableordisableIntelTrustedExecution
Technology.
PhysicalPresencefor
Provisioning
•Disabled
•Enabled
Thisoptionenablesordisablestheconrmation
messagewhenyouchangethesettingsofthe
securitychip.
SecurityChip
PhysicalPresencefor
Clear
•Disabled
•Enabled
Thisoptionenablesordisablestheconrmation
messagewhenyouclearthesecuritychip.
FlashBIOSUpdating
byEnd-Users
•Disabled
•Enabled
IfyouselectEnabled,alluserscanupdatethe
UEFIBIOS.IfyouselectDisabled,onlythe
personwhoknowsthesupervisorpasswordcan
updatetheUEFIBIOS.
UEFIBIOS
UpdateOption
SecureRollBack
Prevention
•Disabled
•Enabled
IfyouselectDisabled,youcanashtothe
previousversionofUEFIBIOS.Ifyouselect
Enabled,youcannotashtotheprevious
versionofUEFIBIOS.
Memory
Protection
ExecutionPrevention•Disabled
•Enabled
Somecomputervirusesandwormscause
memorybufferstooverowbyrunningcode
whereonlydataisallowed.IftheDataExecution
Preventionfeaturecanbeusedwithyour
operatingsystem,thenbyselectingEnabled
youcanprotectyourcomputeragainstattacks
bysuchvirusesandworms.Ifafterchoosing
Enabledyoundthatanprogramdoesnotrun
correctly,selectDisabledandresetthesetting.
IntelVirtualization
Technology
•Disabled
•Enabled
IfyouselectEnabled,aVirtualMachineMonitor
(VMM)canutilizetheadditionalhardware
capabilitiesprovidedbyIntelVirtualization
Technology.
Virtualization
IntelVT-dFeature•Disabled
•Enabled
IntelVT-disIntelVirtualizationTechnologyfor
DirectedI/O.Whenenabled,aVMMcanutilize
theplatforminfrastructureforI/Ovirtualization.
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