"Accelerated Memory Scanning" that improves virus checking in memory with Intel's built-in GPU

When Intel receives a security countermeasure event "RSA Conference 2018"We announced new security related functions according to. The 6 th generation Core processor "Skylake"Can be used on machines with built-in GPU (iGPU) after"Accelerated Memory Scanning"Function can check the virus or malware in the main memory with iGPU instead of CPU, thereby greatly reducing the CPU usage rate and the overall CPU power consumption.

Securing the Digital World: Intel Announces Silicon-Level Security Technologies, Industry Adoption at RSA 2018 | Intel Newsroom
https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/securing-digital-world-intel-announces-silicon-level-security-technologies-industry-adoption-rsa-2018/

Intel is offloading virus scanning to its GPUs to improve performance and battery life - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17244996/intel-virus-scanning-integrated-gpus-memory

◆ Accelerated Memory Scanning
Accelerated Memory Scanning (AMS) is one of "Intel Threat Detection Technology" announced as CPU threat detection technology. Threat detection to detect cyber attacks by scanning system memory has been scanned by the CPU so far. On the other hand, in AMS, it is said that Intel's iGPU will perform scanning processing. In the conventional CPU processing, the CPU usage rate was 20%, whereas in the iGPU processing by AMS, the CPU usage rate is drastically reduced to 2%, so there is no deterioration in work efficiency. In addition, we can reduce the power consumption of the whole CPU including iGPU processing drastically.


According to The Verge, the AMS function can be used with the GPU built-in CPU of the generation of the 6th generation Core processor "Skylake" or later generation. Intel is affiliated with Microsoft and has integrated AMS functionality with Microsoft Windows Defender ATP (Advanced Threat Protection). At the time of writing the article, you can use the AMS function with Windows Defender ATP.

◆ Intel Advanced Platform Telemetry
"Intel Advanced Platform Telemetry (APT)" is also announced as one of Intel Threat Detection Technology. APT said that it combines the telemetry function of the cloud platform with the machine learning algorithm, and it performs advanced threat detection. Intel is collaborating with Cisco on APT technology and APT is available on the Cisco Tetration platform.

◆ Inte Security Essentials
In addition to AMS and APT, Intel has also announced "Inte Security Essentials (ISE)" hardware security function common to Xeon and Atom as well as Core processor. Intel says that ISE provides secure launch, protection of data and encryption keys and other digital assets at the hardware level, faster encryption, reliable enclaves protecting application runtime, and more.