CORPORATE INFORMATION  
 

WinMagic’s SecureDoc™ Full-Disk Encryption Fully Supports Microsoft Windows Vista

WinMagic Now Uniquely Positioned to Support All Editions of Windows Vista: SecureDoc’s Clean and Comprehensive Design Permitted WinMagic To Support Vista in Less Than One Week

WinMagic today announced that its SecureDoc v4.2 SR4 full-disk encryption software now fully supports Microsoft Windows Vista. Immediately available to early adopters, SecureDoc is uniquely positioned to compliment Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Business, and Windows Vista Ultimate. The same purity of design that prevents hackers from bypassing the encryption level while simplifying integration with single or multi-factor authentication through tokens, biometrics, and PKI technology has allowed WinMagic to deliver full Vista support to customers in just one week. It is this competitive advantage that will allow WinMagic to fully support Windows Vista today, and as Windows Vista evolves.

WinMagic has also worked closely with hardware manufacturers to ensure SecureDoc is fully Windows Vista compatible on their technology, and has begun discussions that will see SecureDoc incorporated as part of each hardware manufacturer’s standard product build to make it even simpler for users to utilize full-disk encryption to protect all data. These announcements will be made available through WinMagic’s hardware partners when laptops ship in early 2007.

WinMagic protects an organization’s existing investment in encryption technology as the same version of SecureDoc can be utilized for Windows 2000/XP, and any edition of Vista. SecureDoc also complies with Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.1 and TPM 1.2 to ensure organizations can utilize existing development with all smartcards, cryptographic tokens, PKI keys, or biometric devices at pre-boot.

Administrator, user, and system friendly, SecureDoc installs transparently and silently in the background so as not to interrupt the user, and does not require its own partition on the hard drive, saving administrator time and as much as 1GB of hard drive space. SecureDoc also makes it possible for users to automatically encrypt Flash Cards, SD Cards, Multimedia Cards, Micro Drives, and other removable media. Additionally, removable media can be transferred to other mobile devices and accessed through the SecureDoc PDA user's key, protecting a user's vital information from unauthorized access. This functionality will facilitate system administrators to utilize one encryption solution for LANs, WANs, and GANs, eliminating the administration nightmare resulting from having to manage different security solutions for different devices.

"Any enterprise switching to a new OS has to be absolutely certain that its data remains protected, and WinMagic is proud that SecureDoc's clean design has enabled it to provide complete full-disk encryption support for Vista," said Mr. Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO & President, WinMagic Inc. "Vista has been improved in many aspects, especially with regards to security and access control - even within the kernel code - but thanks to its clean design, SecureDoc's core software runs almost unchanged in the Vista environment," Nguyen-Huu continued. "If we hacked Windows in a bad way and violated many 'undocumented features' then WinMagic wouldn't have been able to support the Vista kernel within a day like we did this time - every byte is encrypted, not just a partition, eliminating the risk of design flaws that often provide hackers with simple access to confidential data."

In fact, WinMagic is so confident that SecureDoc provides the best data protection available in terms of robustness, performance, security, manageability, and ease of use that it is developing a simple benchmarking and scoring tool to enable organizations to evaluate encryption technologies and to compare SecureDoc with all other solutions.

WinMagic’s unprecedented support of Windows Vista eliminates the risk of data being accessed by unauthorized users should a desktop or mobile device be stolen, or should hard-drive disposal procedures fail. The Vista version will also continue to provide the unique real-world functionality that has made SecureDoc the full-disk encryption solution of choice for organizations looking for unparalleled data protection that is simple to install, integrate, and manage. This functionality includes:

  • The fastest to encrypt the hard drive

  • Ensures maintained and sustained integrity during the hard-drive encryption process, regardless if interrupted by power failure, etc.

  • Supports enterprise features such as remote deployment, remote challenge response one-time password recovery, and remote control

  • Provides data recovery in case of virus infection (makes restoring encrypted disk as easy as restoring unencrypted disk)

  • Encrypts every portion of the hard drive – not leaving any residual bytes unencrypted should the hard drive be partitioned

  • Ensures encryption of the entire hard drive regardless of bad sectors or whether the hard drive needs to be defragmented

  • Ensures that utility functions like Ghost, and others, work properly

WinMagic’s SecureDoc Enterprise Server edition makes it simple to deploy and manage encryption for hundreds of thousands of users. Remote features permit adding, removing, or augmenting users and profiles as well as allowing password recovery and integration with Active Directory and other LDAP servers such as PKI, and Novell.

Following this release of SecureDoc Enterprise version for Vista, WinMagic will release a consumer Personal Edition product which supports VISTA before the end of 2006. The consumer product will protect one disk for $30 or unlimited disks and removable media for $50.

About WinMagic Inc.
Founded in 1997, WinMagic develops full-disk encryption software. WinMagic’s SecureDoc full-disk encryption suite provides unmatched protection of data stored on desktops, laptops, and other mobile devices by employing authentication from password to hardware token, TPM, biometrics, and PKI commencing right at pre-boot. WinMagic’s award-winning product suite, which consists of SecureDoc, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, Compartmental SecureDoc, SecureDoc Mobile, and SecureDoc Personal Edition, meets the requirements of even the most security-conscious users by focusing on concrete policy-driven security features while still offering unparalleled flexibility which incorporates the Unicode Standard. Utilizing Public Key Cryptographic Standard PKCS #11 (Cryptographic Token Interface Standard) from the ground up for extreme adaptability, the SecureDoc line has earned an impressive list of validations including NIST Cryptographic Module Validation, FIPS 140-2 Level 1 & 2, and is scheduled to achieve the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL-4) certification in early 2007.

Headquartered in Mississauga (Toronto), ON Canada, WinMagic operates through direct and indirect channel support in over 43 countries. For more information on products or services, please call 1-888-879-5879, or email info@WinMagic.com.

# # #

SecureDoc, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, and SecureDoc Central Database are trademarks of WinMagic Inc. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
 

Press Contact:
Michael L. O’Keefe
Communication Strategies, Inc.
Telephone: (416) 760-0100
mokeeffe@communicationstrategiesinc.net