Wave Systems and SafeNet form reseller agreement
Posted by Ken Y-N on April 10th, 2008 at 03:14pm
Wave Systems Corp has finalised a reseller agreement with SafeNet Inc, enabling Wave Systems to offer SafeNet’s products such as ProtectDrive, which when combined with Wave System’s own EMBASSY suite for managing the security features of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), providce a complete software and hardware solution for enterprise-scale data protection.
Chris Holland, vice president of product management at SafeNet said:
“Wave’s focus on the broad market need for secure data protection, strong authentication and network security will enable companies of all sizes to benefit from our combined solutions.”
Brian Berger, executive vice president, marketing and sales at Wave Systems said:
“We look forward to offering customers the ability to manage SafeNet’s ProtectDrive products, as well as trusted hardware security, using Wave’s EMBASSY solutions.”
Wave’s EMBASSY client and server software leverages the security features of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), an open standards security chip that serves as a tamper-resistant storage vault for user credentials. By leveraging Wave’s software in conjunction with the TPM, enterprises can immediately roll out strong authentication, including machine, biometric and smart card authentication, as well as instituting stronger network policies, key management and data protection. In addition, Wave provides management capabilities for fully encrypting hard drives to enable password setup and recovery, pre-boot authentication, remote deployment and lifecycle management. Wave’s automated compliance auditing features also allows an IT department to quickly verify that all data on a lost or stolen laptop was stored safely on the drive by using Wave’s enterprise server class software.
Some of the security features that this alliance will bring are stronger authentication through biometrics and smart cards and others, stronger network usage policies, encryption key management, data protection, full-disk encryption, password setup and recovery, power-on authentication, remote deployment, lifecycle management, and auditing of lost or stolen laptops.
This story was found on TMCnet.
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