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CENTIA TO DISTRIBUTE WINMAGIC’S MARKET-LEADING
SECUREDOC FULL-DISK ENCRYPTION SOLUTION IN THE U.K.
WinMagic Exhibiting At
InfoSecurity Europe: Shows How SecureDoc Integrates With Smart
Cards, Tokens, Biometric Devices, And PKI At Pre-Boot To Encrypt All
Data…Even On Easily-Stolen Laptops
(London – April 26, 2006 )
WinMagic Inc., the innovative leader in full-disk encryption
solutions, today announced that in response to the fast-increasing
European demand for its SecureDoc full-disk encryption solution, it
has selected Centia as a distribution partner. This latest expansion
of WinMagic’s partner network underscores its commitment to increase
the availability of SecureDoc in Europe. WinMagic will demonstrate
its SecureDoc at InfoSecurity Europe (Booth G926), April 25-27, 2006
at Olympia, London.
Perfectly suited to Europe’s increasingly-mobile workforce,
WinMagic’s award-winning SecureDoc full-disk encryption solutions
encrypt a user’s entire hard disk at preboot to provide unmatched
protection for confidential and sensitive data on laptops, desktops,
and handheld devices. By providing full-disk encryption before the
operating system brings up the logon screen SecureDoc makes it
simple to protect data without complicating the log-on process – the
SecureDoc log-on screen simply replaces the Windows GINA to make
encryption virtually transparent to the user. This seamless
integration also makes it simple to combine full-disk encryption
with multi-factor authentication, such as smart card, token,
biometric, and PKI authentication technologies.
“As Europe’s leading application deployment distributor, Centia
is ideally qualified to increase WinMagic’s U.K. presence,”
explained Thi Nguyen-Huu, President & CEO, WinMagic. “Centia
understands it is impossible to guarantee the security of internal,
partner, or customer data without encrypting the entire hard drive,”
Nguyen-Huu continued. “By seamlessly integrating with
increasingly-popular smart card, token, biometric, and PKI
authentication technologies, SecureDoc makes it simple to
incorporate full-disk encryption within a complete security system
without affecting laptop performance or complicating user logon.”
"With today’s European workforce becoming
increasingly mobile, SecureDoc is uniquely positioned to make it
simple for organizations to integrate full-disk encryption within a
complete security solution to fully protect data on desktops, and
easily-stolen mobile devices,” commented Yuri Pasea, Managing
Director, Centia. “There is a clear need for this versatile
and highly-secure encryption solution, and Centia is excited about
sharing SecureDoc’s unique encryption features with its reseller
base,” continued Pasea. “As always, Centia will
provide the value adds and unmatched pre- and post-sales support
required to ensure its resellers can best utilize this unique
encryption solution to develop their businesses into new markets.”
Designed for today’s highly-dispersed European
business environment, the SecureDoc Enterprise Server integrates
with Active Directory, LDAP and PKI servers to let administrators
install, encrypt, and configure user machines centrally, and enables
secure, yet flexible creation and distribution of keys and key
files, as well as assignment of access privileges to users.
Administrators can customize password rules for the entire network,
as well as recover lost passwords through a secure one-time
challenge and response online engine. Most importantly, the unique
design of the SecureDoc Enterprise Server Key file management
eliminates all the vulnerabilities associated with the ‘Master
Password’ concept so commonly used by other encryption software.
Recent SecureDoc upgrades include support for larger
drives to enable an unlimited number of partitions to be encrypted
with different keys; a new encryption header, which enables
SecureDoc to encrypt files with more flexibility; and support for
multiple languages. Additionally, SecureDoc now performs an
integrity check at pre-boot – making it simple to control/update all
existing profiles from the SecureDoc Enterprise Server and enabling
an administrator to centrally change user passwords or password rule
settings for all client machines at any time.
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.
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, laptops and PDA’s by employing
authentication through passwords to hardware tokens, biometrics, and
PKI 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 call
1-888-879-5879 (toll free in North America), +1 905 502-7000
(worldwide), or email
info@winmagic.com.
About Centia
Centia is the leading European application deployment distributor,
the largest server-based computing distributor, and the largest
Citrix access infrastructure advisor in Europe. Centia is the
founder behind the “knowledge distribution” model based on Centia’s
awareness that distribution needed to offer more to resellers than
just a warehouse for product lines and driven by Centia’s reputation
as the channel’s emerging technology expert. Centia has the European
focus, drive, and resources to fulfill any requirements an
enterprise or channel member may have – whether it is training for
your European technical team, support for one of your customer’s
satellite offices or sales and technical expertise on cutting-edge
application deployment, secure application management, application
performance and application appliance solutions. For more
information please visit Centia online at
www.centia.net
or call Centia at 01635 817777.
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