{"id":7851,"date":"2019-06-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spo-comm.sandboxsite.de\/good-to-know-what-is-iamt\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:49:16","slug":"good-to-know-what-is-iamt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/good-to-know-what-is-iamt\/","title":{"rendered":"Good to know: What is iAMT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Intel Active Management Technology<\/strong>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.de\/content\/www\/de\/de\/architecture-and-technology\/intel-active-management-technology.html\" data-htmlarea-external=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n  <strong>iAMT<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a> is a system for the administration and remote maintenance of PCs. It is based on the <strong>Intel vPro<\/strong> platform and consists of its own hardware component, the <strong>Intel Management Engine<\/strong> (Intel ME for short). This is installed as a microcontroller in all current chipsets, including Intel Core i3, i5, i7 and Xeon processors.<\/p>\n<p>This microcontroller always runs when the computer has power, as it is supplied via the 5-volt supply of the power supply unit. The PC does not have to be switched on for this. This hardware-based management has the advantage that most features can also be used when the PC is switched off or has crashed. There are only a few functions for which the computer must be running. The PC to be managed via iAMT can be controlled via cable or WLAN.<\/p>\n<h2>What functions does iAMT have?<\/h2>\n<p>iAMT can perform various tasks, such as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Switching the PC on or off remotely<\/li>\n<li>Direct the boot process in a different direction, e.g. to boot from a CD<\/li>\n<li>Reset computer<\/li>\n<li>Change <a href=\"\/blog\/wissen\/was-ist-bios\" data-htmlarea-external=\"1\">BIOS settings<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Switching the power supply on and off<\/li>\n<li>Redirect keyboard, mouse and screen output via KVM switch<\/li>\n<li>Read out information about errors<\/li>\n<li>Trigger remote control sessions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What are the disadvantages of iAMT?<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, iAMT has enormous security gaps. The German Federal Office for Information Security issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cert-bund.de\/advisoryshort\/CB-K15-1256\" data-htmlarea-external=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warning about Intel Active Management Technology back in 2015<\/a>. In 2017, it became known that it was possible to take over computers completely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heise.de\/security\/meldung\/Intel-Fernwartung-AMT-bei-Angriffen-auf-PCs-genutzt-3739441.html\" class=\"button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you take a closer look at Intel Core i processors, you may come across the term &#8220;iAMT&#8221;, Intel Active Management Technology. We have summarized for you what is behind it and what functions iAMT brings with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-know-how"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16361,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/16361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spo-comm.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}