Architectures and techniques that allow an electronic platform having a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag to transmit platform security status information regardless of the power state of the platform. The RFID tag contains both an external passive RF interface as well as an internal bus interface that may allow components of the host platform to communicate with the RFID tag. The embedded processing agent may provide the ability to detect that a system has come under attack and cause suspicious traffic to be blocked.