Early tests show CPU utilisation drops from around 20 to as little as 2 per cent. The RSA 2018 security conference kicked off yesterday and will run until Friday, so there may be greater than the usual volume of info-sec related news this week. Intel had some ideas to share under the umbrella of Intel Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT), a set of silicon-level capabilities that will help the ecosystem detect new classes of threats. Furthermore, it outlined Intel Security Essentials, a framework that standardizes the built-in security features across Intel processors.