Kent Tibbils, vice president of marketing at ASI, a Fremont, Calif.-based Intel system builder, after Intel acknowledged a security flaw on its vPro processors that could potentially impact thousands of enterprise PCs, enabling hackers to hijack computers remotely. (Intel said it expected computer makers to make updates available as of last week.)

"In terms of opportunity for resellers, I don’t think the opportunity is in how to fix this issue by installing the firmware but it could be used as part of a larger discussion about system and network security that, depending on the business, might involve things like data encryption, as an example."