# Application Security Enablement

Edge AI is revolutionising multiple AI usage areas, raising critical challenges in cybersecurity.
With AI systems making autonomous decisions while handling sensitive city data, facilitating
production lines, monitoring human health, and so much more, robust security is a must.
Intel platforms provide built-in security features to make it possible.

This tutorial provides steps and guidance to enable built-in Intel security features, using
the Metro AI SUite **Smart Intersection** application as an example. With some adjustments,
you will be able to equip your solutions with:

- **Comprehensive Data Privacy**: Protect sensitive personal data with strong encryption
  protocols and blockchain technology, ensuring secure transactions and compliance with
  regulations.
- **Infrastructure Protection**: Safeguard your critical infrastructure with regular firmware
  updates and advanced threat detection systems, mitigating vulnerabilities in distributed
  edge devices.
- **Secure AI Processing**: Leverage privacy-by-design principles and hardware-level security
  features to prevent AI model manipulation and ensure secure, compliant AI operations.

This guide covers:
- [Discrete Trusted Platform Module (dTPM)](./security-features/enable_dtpm.md):
  Hardware-based cryptographic operations and secure key storage.
- [UEFI Secure Boot](./security-features/enable_uefi.md):
  Verified boot chain ensuring system integrity.
- [Full Disk Encryption (FDE)](./security-features/enable_full_disk_install.md):
  Protection of traffic analysis data and system configurations
- [Total Memory Encryption(TME)](./security-features/enable_tme.md):
  Runtime protection of sensitive algorithms and detection models
- [Trusted Compute deployment for isolated video analytics](./security-features/enable_trusted_compute.md):
  Isolated execution environment for video analytics pipelines with enhanced security

These security features protect AI applications, such as the Smart Intersection system, from
unauthorized access and ensure data integrity for traffic monitoring and analysis.

By leveraging Intel's cutting-edge security solutions, you can harness the potential of
Edge AI and Agentic AI while blocking potential threats.
This paves the way for smarter and safer solutions, where AI-driven threat detection and
digital twins for cybersecurity scenarios continue to evolve. Trust Intel technologies
to meet the demands of the modern AI era, such as affordable and secure protection of your
transportation infrastructure.

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Enable dTPM <application-security/enable_dtpm.md>
UEFI Secure Boot <application-security/enable_uefi.md>
Install Ubuntu with Full Disk Encryption <application-security/enable_full_disk_install.md>
Total Memory Encryption (TME) <application-security/enable_tme.md>
Trusted Compute in Smart Intersection <application-security/enable_trusted_compute.md>
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