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WinMagic’s SecureDoc Becomes The First Full-Disk Encryption
Solution To Achieve FIPS 140-2 Validation For Microsoft Vista
SecureDoc Makes It Simple For Organizations to Migrate to
Microsoft Windows Vista
Mississauga, Ontario, July 20, 2007 –
WinMagic® Inc., the innovative leader in full-disk encryption, is proud to
announce that SecureDoc is the first full-disk encryption solution to receive
FIPS 140-2 validation for Microsoft Windows Vista from the U.S. National
Institute of Standards and Technology and the Canadian Communications Security
Establishment. As the only solution to enable government agencies and
corporations to incorporate full-disk encryption that meets FIPS 140-2 criteria
for Vista within a complete security solution, SecureDoc is uniquely positioned
to ensure that today’s investment in encryption technology will return an ROI
tomorrow as government agencies and business entities migrate to Windows Vista.
“WinMagic was the first full-disk encryption vendor to pass DISA’s Joint
Interoperability Test Command, the first to receive FIPS 140-2 level 1 and 2
validations for Windows XP and 2000, holds NIST Certificate #1 for our AES
256-bit crypto engine, and is the only product authorized by the NSA to protect
SECRET level data, and so it is only fitting that it is now the first to achieve
FIPS 140-2 validation for Vista,” said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO, WinMagic. “Over the
past five to 10 years, WinMagic is proud to say that it has played a leadership
role within the encryption community,” Nguyen-Huu continued. “And this
announcement today is simply another first in a long line of firsts for
SecureDoc.”
Having recently been selected to protect sensitive, unclassified
data residing on laptops, other mobile computing devices, and removable storage
media devices by the OMB, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. General Services
Administration, SecureDoc is now ideally positioned to ensure organizations
installing Vista can meet all HSPD-12 and OMB directive requirements. Redesigned
from the ground up to seamlessly integrate with all editions of Windows Vista at
preboot, SecureDoc prevents unauthorized access to personal identifiable
information and sensitive data resulting from lost notebooks, USB thumb drives,
CD/DVD’s, and USB flash drives. Working at the pre-boot level, SecureDoc makes
it simple to incorporate single- or multi-factor authentication through
password, USB hardware tokens, smartcard, biometrics, and PKI technology. For a
full list of smart cards and readers supported by SecureDoc, visit
http://www.winmagic.com/solutions/third-party-integration.html.
WinMagic worked closely with hardware manufacturers to ensure
SecureDoc is 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 – making it even simpler to utilize
full-disk encryption to protect all data.
WinMagic’s purity of design protects an organization’s existing
investment in encryption technology as the same version of SecureDoc can be
utilized for Windows XP/2000, and any edition of Vista. SecureDoc also supports
the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 to ensure organizations can utilize this
feature as a second layer of security or at pre-boot. It is this competitive
advantage that will allow WinMagic to continue to support Windows Vista as it
evolves.
True to WinMagic’s guiding principle that “whatever you can do
with an unencrypted disk you should be able to do with an encrypted disk,”
protecting end-point devices with SecureDoc translates into the ultimate
transparency for the end user without sacrificing the integrity of securing
sensitive data. For example, SecureDoc makes it possible for users not to have a
password due to the fact that they can be authenticated through their profile,
and hence be provisioned their appropriate encryption key to securely access
their devices or data stores.
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, Canada,
WinMagic operates in over 43 countries. For more information on products or
services, please visit www.WinMagic.com,
call 1-888-879-5879, or email
info@WinMagic.com.
SecureDoc, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, Compartmental SecureDoc,
SecureDoc PDA, SecureDoc Personal Edition, SecureDoc RME, SecureDoc Removable
Media Encryption, MySecureDoc, MySecureDoc Personal Edition Plus, MySecureDoc
Media, 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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