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December 29th, 2010 at 05:09pm
Under Advocacy
Here’s a curiously interesting article from a small consulting service that recently attended an EU Trusted Computing Seminar and came away rather impressed by the capabilities of the Trusted Platform Module, or perhaps more by the potential for the company to sell TPM-based consultancy…
Continue Reading Lifecycle Professional Services meets Trusted Computing, likes it
Tags: lifecycle professional services, wave
By Ken Y-N
December 2nd, 2010 at 05:20pm
Under Storage
The Trusted Computing Group official blog published an article by Mike Fratto on managing self-encrypting drives with Wave’s software. It does occasionally read a bit more like an advert than a review, but perhaps that indicates how impressed the reviewer was!
Continue Reading Wave Embassy Trusted Drive Manager
Tags: mike fratto, opal, wave
By Ken Y-N
October 8th, 2010 at 04:48pm
Under TPM
This is a story I first reported on last year or so, so I am pleased to see that Wave Systems have now been certified by the Open Identity Exchange (OIX) as compatible with the US Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) specifications. OIX basically means that: "The Open Identity Exchange provides a critical business [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems gets certification for trusted single sign-in
Tags: icam, oix, openid, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 29th, 2010 at 04:02pm
Under TPM
A move by PricewaterhouseCoopers away from software-based certificates to Trusted Platform Module hardware-based certificates was reported on by Computerworld. They are in the progress of migrating around 150,000 users, helped by Wave System’s management tools to handle turning on the TPMs and provisioning certificates, etc. From a cost point of view, there’s this interesting figure: [...]
Continue Reading PricewaterhouseCoopers moves to TPM-based certificates
Tags: computerworld, pricewaterhousecoopers, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 29th, 2010 at 03:46pm
Under Advocacy
This month Wave Systems have published four videos, a white paper and a case study on Bitpipe.com on various TPM-related topics, namely: Trusted Computing: What the Future Looks Like Trusted Computing: Deploying in a Mixed Environment Trusted Computing: How The Government Is Leading Adoption Trusted Computing: Considerations for Deploying in the Enterprise Network Security: How [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems publish a series of TPM-related videos
Tags: video, wave
By Ken Y-N
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