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Should Intel have bought Wave instead?

August 31st, 2010 at 04:42pm Under General

David Lacey’s IT Security Blog examined the Intel buy-out of McAfee in detail, but he doesn’t see the sense in it. He paraphrases Intel’s statements on the buy-out with this: In fact the real motivation behind the deal is an initiative to embed more security in hardware. Intel confidently believes that McAfee’s security technology will [...]

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Why you want hardware-based disk encryption

June 28th, 2010 at 03:09pm Under Storage

A recent post on Computer Technology Review by Robert Thibadeau, Ph.D. from Wave Systems on behalf of the Trusted Computing Group listed a number of reasons why one should encrypt notebook computers, and why a hardware solution such as the Opal specification from the Trusted Computing Group is the best. It reports a study: One [...]

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Wave Systems also have a YouTube video channel

March 11th, 2010 at 04:00pm Under Advocacy

I just discovered that there’s a Wave Systems channel out there, and their latest video is on Full Disk Encryption and Wave Systems management software.

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Wave Systems add support for Intel’s vPro

February 9th, 2010 at 03:41pm Under General

Wave Systems recently released a press release describing how they have upgraded their EMBASSY suite of software to handle Intel’s vPro technology. Intel vPro has hardware-embedded secure remote management technology, which Wave exploit to allow the IT department to securely access a PC at any time, updating TPM states and managing Opel-compliant self-encrypting drives, in [...]

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Wave Systems, Intel vPro, and self encrypting drive backup

September 26th, 2009 at 01:59pm Under Storage

According to this press release, Wave Systems will be demonstrating in conjunction with Dell and Lenovo at the Intel Developers Forum the use of Wave’s EMBASSY administration suite to remotely control self-encrypting drives on vPro-equipped hardware. Some of the things the EMBASSY Remote Administration Server can do are: network unlock of drives; tie particular PCs [...]

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Wave releases TPM-secured OpenID beta

September 14th, 2009 at 03:26pm Under TPM

Wave Systems recently announced the release of a beta version on id.wave.com, a system that secures the OpenID identity management service using a Trusted Platform Module. OpenID is used by many services from Facebook to Google as a means of having a single global identity and single global password. By adding a TPM into the [...]

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Open Government Open Identity to use TPM to enhance security

September 9th, 2009 at 08:34am Under TPM

As speculated in my previous post, Wave Systems posted a follow-on press release on their collaboration in the Open Identity Initiative for federal government. As the press release points out: [W]ith open access comes the need for greater security and privacy. Wave Systems is developing the ability to tie open identity technology into the trusted [...]

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Open Government Open Identity to require TPM for maximum security?

September 9th, 2009 at 07:20am Under TPM

Here’s a very interesting, or very scary, depending on which side of the fence you sit on, new development reported on in a press release on the OpenID Foundation’s web site about a pilot scheme for implementing OpenID for US government web sites. The companies involved are an interesting mix: Yahoo!, PayPal, Google, Equifax, AOL, [...]

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Self-encrypting solid state drives from Samsung

April 14th, 2009 at 02:25pm Under Storage

Engadget recently republished a press release from Samsung on full disk encryption for solid state drives. Samsung will soon be shipping self-encrypting Flash memory-based solid state drives, in sizes of 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB, but with no pricing information. They will come with Wave System’s EMBASSY management software suite to allow secure backup and restore, [...]

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Intel’s iTPM now ships with Wave EMBASSY software

November 24th, 2008 at 01:26pm Under TPM

Wave have recently announce that they have signed an OEM deal with Intel to ship their EMBASSY Trust Suite (ETS) bundled with Intel’s vPro motherboards DQ45CB and DQ45EK with built-in integrated Trusted Platform Module, or iTPM for short. I’ve covered Wave Systems’ products a number of times before, so check the linked archive for other [...]

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