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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 [...]
Continue Reading Should Intel have bought Wave instead?
Tags: intel, mcafee, wave
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Why you want hardware-based disk encryption
Tags: computer technology review, opal, wave
By Ken Y-N
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.
Continue Reading Wave Systems also have a YouTube video channel
Tags: wave, youtube
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems add support for Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, wave
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems, Intel vPro, and self encrypting drive backup
Tags: embassy, intel, vpro, wave
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Wave releases TPM-secured OpenID beta
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Open Government Open Identity to use TPM to enhance security
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
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, [...]
Continue Reading Open Government Open Identity to require TPM for maximum security?
Tags: openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
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, [...]
Continue Reading Self-encrypting solid state drives from Samsung
Tags: embassy, engadget, samsung, wave
By Ken Y-N
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 [...]
Continue Reading Intel’s iTPM now ships with Wave EMBASSY software
Tags: embassy, intel, itpm, marketwatch, wave
By Ken Y-N