hp reached out to sponsor a showcase of their new elite books so i've got the 14
inch 1040 g4 and the 12 and a half inch x360 1020 g2 here these are both ultra
slim business notebooks each of them with three yes three discreet
hardware enforced security features to keep your computer secure no matter
where you're working and this is probably the coolest one
toggleable privacy filter what
most of the time you'll want the full experience of the elitebooks glossy 4k
ips touchscreen but what about situations where you
don't want lookie-loos spying over your shoulder or you actually can't let
others see the sensitive information on your screen like when you're trying to
get some real work done on a plane sure view is hp's name for their
built-in privacy screen that you can toggle with a one button click
this is so cool
sure view combines a 3m light control film on the screen with a proprietary
backlight behind it so when sure view is off the backlight uses two light sources
to disperse light across all areas of the display when it's on however the
backlight only uses one light source and
it focuses it through the light control film in a narrow 70 degree cone reducing
up to 95 of the light that's being emitted outside of your privacy zone it
doesn't block off-axis viewing to quite
the same degree as a standalone external filter and it does cut down on the
vertical viewing angles a little bit even when it's disabled
but from our experience it is more than good
enough it doesn't add any extra bulk to this super slim notebook the ability to
toggle it on and off is freaking awesome
and it can even have the added benefit of increasing battery life by up to 15
percent depending on how long you keep it on all right let's move on to
attackers that aren't sitting in the same room unsecure web browsing is one
of the most common attack vectors for malware as innocent employees or even
woke it buffs like you and i can easily
download malicious malware or ransomware if we haven't had our morning coffee yet
to combat this hp has worked closely with bromium on a feature that they call
sure click which is designed to shift the cyber security responsibility from
the bright-eyed internet user to the pc itself whenever you visit a website
sureclick isolates the browsing session inside of a micro virtual machine which
eliminates the ability of that one site to infect the system or even other
browser tabs if a piece of malware attacks a browsing
session it simply goes away once the infected tab is closed
it all works through the sureclick browser which currently supports both
internet explorer and chromium without adding any extra baloney
but you can also check out some vital stats through the sureclick console
including how many pages have been safely opened and how many micro vms are
instantiated at that moment moving on let's look at the last line of defense
our third security feature here it's a below the os protocol called hp sure
start which i personally would have called sure boot because it kicks out
any foreign code that might have made its way into your machine's BIOS
built into a custom hardware chip on the system board surestart will
cryptographically verify the integrity of the hp BIOS code before the CPU is
allowed to execute even the first line if the system detects that the BIOS has
been altered from a malicious attack or an accidental error or whatever the
embedded controller will replace the BIOS with a new copy that's stored in a
secret memory that can't be accessed by third-party software or malware or even
third-party firmware okay but hold on a second Linus i don't really restart my
computer that often my BIOS could be infected for days or weeks before sure
start fixes it ah no so this latest
third generation of surestart has run time intrusion detection meaning it will
continually verify that a genuine hp system BIOS is present in the system
flash and if tampering is detected it will automatically restore the BIOS
while the system is running but even with all these hardcore
security features there's no extra bulk on these notebooks they're just over
half an inch at their thickest and are very light despite all the goodies
inside so ours rock core i7 7600u
processors 16 gigs of RAM and a one
terabyte NVMe SSD with HDMI output and
dual Thunderbolt 3 ports the x360 even
comes with a stylus if you want to get your ard on or
more likely in my case jot down some chicken scratch notes and diagrams not
too shabby the 1040 g4 and the x360 1020
g2 both start at 13.99 so be sure to check them and all their
hardware-enforced features out at the link below
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