System, apparatus and method for providing locality assertion between a security processor and an enclave

In one embodiment, a system includes a processor having one or more cores and a security processor coupled to the processor. The security processor may be configured to execute in a trusted execution environment, where the security processor includes a local attestation circuit to validate an enclave stored in a protected region of a system memory as a trusted agent, based at least in part on an identifier of the enclave stored in a whitelist. Other embodiments are described and claimed.