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 elite books glossy 4k IPS touchscreen
But what about situations where you don't want looky-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%
Depending on how long you keep it on
alright
Let's move on to attackers that aren't sitting in the same room
unsecured 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 Bologna (crap)
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 SureStart
Which I personally would have called sure boot because it picks out any
Foreign code that might have made its way into your machines 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
for 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
Ok, 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
SureStart fixes it. Ah, no. So this latest 3rd generation of SureStart has runtime 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 1TB
nvme SSD with HDMI output and dual
Thunderbolt 3 ports the X 360 even comes with a stylus if you want to get your are
or
More likely in my case jot down some chicken scratch notes and diagrams
Not too shabby the 1040 G for in the x360 1020 G to both start at $1399
So be sure to check them and all their hardware and forced features out at the link below
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