3 Security Features EVERY Notebook Should Have - HP EliteBook Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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hp reached out to sponsor a showcase of their new elite books so i've got the 14
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inch 1040 g4 and the 12 and a half inch x360 1020 g2 here these are both ultra
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slim business notebooks each of them with three yes three discreet
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hardware enforced security features to keep your computer secure no matter
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where you're working and this is probably the coolest one
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toggleable privacy filter what
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most of the time you'll want the full experience of the elitebooks glossy 4k
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ips touchscreen but what about situations where you
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don't want lookie-loos spying over your shoulder or you actually can't let
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others see the sensitive information on your screen like when you're trying to
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get some real work done on a plane sure view is hp's name for their
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built-in privacy screen that you can toggle with a one button click
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this is so cool
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sure view combines a 3m light control film on the screen with a proprietary
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backlight behind it so when sure view is off the backlight uses two light sources
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to disperse light across all areas of the display when it's on however the
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backlight only uses one light source and
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it focuses it through the light control film in a narrow 70 degree cone reducing
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up to 95 of the light that's being emitted outside of your privacy zone it
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doesn't block off-axis viewing to quite
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the same degree as a standalone external filter and it does cut down on the
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vertical viewing angles a little bit even when it's disabled
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but from our experience it is more than good
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enough it doesn't add any extra bulk to this super slim notebook the ability to
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toggle it on and off is freaking awesome
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and it can even have the added benefit of increasing battery life by up to 15
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percent depending on how long you keep it on all right let's move on to
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attackers that aren't sitting in the same room unsecure web browsing is one
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of the most common attack vectors for malware as innocent employees or even
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woke it buffs like you and i can easily
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download malicious malware or ransomware if we haven't had our morning coffee yet
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to combat this hp has worked closely with bromium on a feature that they call
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sure click which is designed to shift the cyber security responsibility from
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the bright-eyed internet user to the pc itself whenever you visit a website
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sureclick isolates the browsing session inside of a micro virtual machine which
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eliminates the ability of that one site to infect the system or even other
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browser tabs if a piece of malware attacks a browsing
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session it simply goes away once the infected tab is closed
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it all works through the sureclick browser which currently supports both
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internet explorer and chromium without adding any extra baloney
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but you can also check out some vital stats through the sureclick console
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including how many pages have been safely opened and how many micro vms are
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instantiated at that moment moving on let's look at the last line of defense
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our third security feature here it's a below the os protocol called hp sure
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start which i personally would have called sure boot because it kicks out
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any foreign code that might have made its way into your machine's BIOS
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built into a custom hardware chip on the system board surestart will
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cryptographically verify the integrity of the hp BIOS code before the CPU is
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allowed to execute even the first line if the system detects that the BIOS has
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been altered from a malicious attack or an accidental error or whatever the
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embedded controller will replace the BIOS with a new copy that's stored in a
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secret memory that can't be accessed by third-party software or malware or even
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third-party firmware okay but hold on a second Linus i don't really restart my
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computer that often my BIOS could be infected for days or weeks before sure
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start fixes it ah no so this latest
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third generation of surestart has run time intrusion detection meaning it will
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continually verify that a genuine hp system BIOS is present in the system
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flash and if tampering is detected it will automatically restore the BIOS
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while the system is running but even with all these hardcore
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security features there's no extra bulk on these notebooks they're just over
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half an inch at their thickest and are very light despite all the goodies
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inside so ours rock core i7 7600u
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processors 16 gigs of RAM and a one
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terabyte NVMe SSD with HDMI output and
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dual Thunderbolt 3 ports the x360 even
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comes with a stylus if you want to get your ard on or
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more likely in my case jot down some chicken scratch notes and diagrams not
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too shabby the 1040 g4 and the x360 1020
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g2 both start at 13.99 so be sure to check them and all their
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hardware-enforced features out at the link below
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