WINMAGIC RESPONDS TO INCREASED DEMAND FOR ITS SECUREDOC FULL DISK
ENCRYPTION SOLUTION BY OPENING ITS FIRST OFFICES IN EUROPE
WinMagic Increases European Presence By Providing Local
Sales And Marketing Support For Its Distributors And Resellers
Mississauga, Ontario, February 3, 2005 - WinMagic Inc.,
the innovative leader in full disk encryption solutions, today announced that in
response to feedback from its European partners on the fast-expanding demand for
its SecureDoc full disk encryption solution, it has opened its first European
offices.
WinMagic’s European Headquarters, based in Munich, Germany will employ five
staff members managed by Mr. Ron Porcello. With over 15 years experience in the
European eSecurity market, Mr. Porcello is ideally qualified to work closely
with WinMagic’s existing value added distributors and resellers to identify the
marketing and sales opportunities that will both further develop the company’s
partner network in Europe and increase SecureDoc’s market share. WinMagic’s
European Headquarters will also serve as the “Tech hub” for pre-sales and
after-sales technical support for SecureDoc distributors, resellers, and
customers.
WinMagic has also opened an office just outside London, England to better serve
its UK and Irish channel partners. The UK office’s team will be headed by Mr.
Chris Avis, a dedicated and highly-experienced IT and eSecurity market
specialist. Mr. Avis and his team will be responsible for liaising with
WinMagic’s UK and Irish channel partners to define the SecureDoc marketing and
business activities that will assist distributors and resellers drive increased
sales.
“By opening offices in Europe WinMagic is underscoring its commitment to the
market,” said Martijn Vrugteman, Business Development Manager, WinMagic. “The
demand for the SecureDoc full disk encryption solution has been growing steadily
in Europe, and these two new offices will not only act as a launch pad for the
company’s fast-expanding marketing activities, but will also enable WinMagic to
provide additional local support to help its partners maximize sales.”
Perfectly suited to Europe’s increasingly-mobile workforce, WinMagic’s
award-winning SecureDoc entire-disk encryption products make it very simple for
an organization to fully protect confidential and sensitive information on
laptops, desktops, and PDAs. Regarded by many industry insiders as the most
innovative disk encryption software available today, SecureDoc is secure, fast,
and robust and possesses many features not found in other products. SecureDoc’s
most distinguished feature will appeal greatly to the European market, which is
known to be a world leader in its adoption of smart card technology: namely, the
integration with cryptographic hardware tokens. SecureDoc is the only disk
encryption solution in the world which can use a password, popular smart cards,
USB tokens, and PKI at pre-boot time (please visit
http://www.winmagic.com/tech_support/token.asp
for the list of tokens and readers SecureDoc supports), so that enterprises can
utilize any combination of one- (password only), two- (password and hardware
token) or three- (password, hardware token, and biometrics) factor
authentication and existing PKI when deploying SecureDoc.
The SecureDoc Enterprise Server (SES) integrates with Active Directory, LDAP
PKI servers to greatly simplify overall management and administration by making
it easy to install, encrypt, and configure user machines centrally. As a result,
SecureDoc makes it easy for administrators to ensure secure, yet flexible
creation and distribution of keys and key files, and just as simple to set
individual user access privileges. SecureDoc also provides numerous recovery
methods for lost passwords and token to ensure an end user will always have
access to their computer. Having gone through many developments, SES can now
deploy and manage users in most diverse IT environments – from LAN (local area
network) to WAN (wide area network) to users with intermittent network access –
via ad-hoc connections or the use of email. SecureDoc Enterprise Server also
offers deployment to users without any network access at all. Backed by the best
Technical Support Group in the industry, WinMagic is dedicated to providing
technical assistance when called upon.
Built on the PKCS#11 standards, and featuring the AES 256-bit encryption
algorithm, SecureDoc’s encryption design has achieved validations for Common
Criteria and FIPS 140-1 Level 2, among others. SecureDoc is also CAPS validated
by the CESG in the United Kingdom, thus enabling SecureDoc implementations
within Her Majesty’s Government’s departments and ministries.
About WinMagic Inc.
WinMagic Inc., is a Canadian company based in Mississauga, Ontario. Its
SecureDoc line of products ensures protection of sensitive information stored on
desktops and laptops by employing authentication through passwords to hardware
tokens, biometrics, and PKIs commencing right at pre-boot time. WinMagic’s
award winning products fulfill the requirements of even the most security
conscious users by focusing on concrete security features, nevertheless still
offering unparalleled flexibility. For more information concerning WinMagic’s
products or services, please visit
www.winmagic.com, call 1-888-879-5879 (toll free in North America), +1 905
502-7000 (worldwide), or email
info@winmagic.com.
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