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WinMagic Announces Support for Linux
WinMagic Demonstrates Innovative SecureDoc Full-Disk
Encryption for Linux at the Gartner Security Summit (Booth 412)
Mississauga, Ontario, and Washington DC June 4, 2007–
WinMagic® Inc., the innovative leader in disk encryption, today announced that
its SecureDoc full-disk encryption product will support Linux by September,
2007. WinMagic (Booth 412) is currently demonstrating a working version of
SecureDoc for Linux, which supports Novell SUSE for desktops and laptops, at the
Gartner Security Summit in Washington DC. The demonstration shows a single
multi-boot laptop running Windows Vista, XP, and Linux encryption.
SecureDoc for Linux underscores WinMagic’s commitment to open system standards
by providing Linux users with encryption software to protect data at rest. In
doing so, WinMagic is meeting the demand within its customer base and the market
place to protect data on end point devices.
SecureDoc’s unique and robust design will provide organizations
working on Linux with a transparent encryption solution for end-point devices
that will lower the total cost of ownership and enrich the end-user experience.
“In recognition of the increased demand for Linux, WinMagic has developed an
end-point encryption solution which will make it simple for Linux users to
protect data at rest no matter where it may reside,” said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO
of WinMagic Inc. “In developing and testing SecureDoc for the Linux
environment, WinMagic’s main focus was to provide the marketplace with an
encryption product that will not yield on performance, functionality, or ease of
use,” Nguyen-Huu continued. “Our support for Linux is yet another sign of
WinMagic’s dedication to open system standards and to furthering those standards
for the data encryption market place.”
About WinMagic Inc.
WinMagic’s robust and innovative SecureDoc software provides the world’s most
secure full disk encryption. Easy to use, deploy, and manage, SecureDoc
Enterprise Edition makes it simple to combine full-disk encryption with user
authentication at pre-boot. Authentication is provisioned in a single- or
multi-factor fashion including password, smart card, TPM, hardware token, PKI,
and biometrics. SecureDoc protects data at rest for endpoint devices including
desktops, notebooks, external USB drives, and CD/DVDs. WinMagic’s data at rest
solution provides granular capabilities of end-user management at an enterprise
level through integration with MS Active Directory, LDAP servers, or PKI.
SecureDoc’s unparalleled robustness, operability, and performance allows for
easy enterprise deployments offering centralized administration with remote
installation, and password recovery.
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, Compartmental SecureDoc, SecureDoc
PDA, SecureDoc Personal Edition, SecureDoc RME, MySecureDoc, MySecureDoc
Personal Edition Plus, MySecureDoc Media Edition, and SecureDoc Central Database
are trademarks of WinMagic Inc. Other products mentioned here in may be
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owner.
Press Contact:
Michael L. O’Keeffe
Communication Strategies, Inc.
Telephone: (416) 760-0100
mokeeffe@communicationstrategiesinc.net
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