March 5, 2007 - Protect and Serve
In the relentless drive for greater returns, areas that do not generate obvious additional revenue, such as data protection, have traditionally been overlooked in favor of snazzier investments that promise bigger ROI.
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February 19, 2007 - Finding a Balance between Security and Convenience
Financial institutions cannot exist without customer trust, and as identity theft becomes increasingly common, clearly customer trust cannot
exist without rock-solid data security.
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February 19, 2007 - Anytime, Anywhere Information Access - a Blessing or a Curse?
For or those who look after national and international security and defence, keeping information secure is a neverending battle.
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August 14, 2006 - SecureDoc Receives FIPS 140-2 Level 1 & Level 2 Validations
Certificate # 698 & 699
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Aug 7, 2006 - Protecting your data
What can normal users do to protect their data?
James Derk, Financial Security
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Aug 2, 2006 - How to avoid laptop lapses
Your notebook's lost or stolen. Now what?
Philip Quinn, Financial Post
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Aug 2, 2006 - MySecureDoc Personal Edition Plus
Security is an important issue when you have sensitive data. However, you can put your mind at ease with MySecureDoc Personal Edition Plus.
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May 25, 2006 - VA data theft may cost $500 million
The head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faced angry lawmakers on Thursday and described how the theft of a device the size of an iPod containing personal data on 26.5 million veterans may cost taxpayers as much as $500 million.
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May 13, 2006 - Lost, stolen laptops bring security risks
With businesses relying more on laptops and mobile technology, more and more sensitive information is leaving the office, often unprotected.
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March 27, 2006 -  Lundquist's Guide To Not Getting Fired for Losing Your Laptop
Keeping your sensitive data off your laptop can help you keep your job. Following these rules and guidelines to avoid becoming another in the long line of recent data theft victims.
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March 1, 2006 -  Full-disk Encryption - Biometric Watch
SecureDoc 4.1 is WinMagic’s latest version of their full-disk encryption solution. The product encrypts data during a computer’s preboot and accepts security authentication from passwords, hardware tokens, biometrics and public key infrastructure.
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February 7, 2006 -  Disk encryption and HSPD-12
This is probably just one GCN editor’s interpretation, but Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security in Mississauga, Ontario, sounds a bit like the Rodney Dangerfield of security technology.
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February 6, 2006 -  Dispatches from Redmond
At a conference for public-sector CIOs in Redmond, Wash., last month, Kristin Johnsen, Microsoft’s senior director for security outreach, briefed editors on a slew of promising technologies for protecting systems and networks.
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January 10, 2006 -  Canadian company tapped by State Department to be part of secure authentication and access control
WinMagic is working on the Homeland Security Presidential Directive, HSPD-12, published by the White House in August 2004. It requires that the smart card technology, containing digital identity in the form of a PKI certificate, be used to gain access to all government buildings and IT networks.
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December 8, 2005 - WINMAGIC INTRODUCES LATEST VERSION OF ITS FULL-DISK ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE
SecureDoc 4.1 offers faster encryption/decryption, support for growing list of tokens and smart cards
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November 22, 2005 - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Full-Disk Encryption
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November 21, 2005 - Biometric Media Weekly
WinMagic Begins Work On State Department Pilot
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November 17, 2005 - MissionCritical Communications
WinMagic Works on Federal PIV Pilot
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October 24, 2005 - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Full-Disk Encryption
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October 24, 2005 - SecureDoc & SES Version 4.1 has been released!
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View the new features available in SecureDoc Enterprise Server version 4.1  >>

October 10, 2005 - Data Protection 
Today’s businesses risk huge financial and legal repercussions if they do not protect internal, partner and customer data.
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August 15, 2005 - Business Week - Unprotected Laptops: A Substantial Financial and Legal Risk
Today’s businesses risk huge financial and legal repercussions if they do not protect internal, partner and customer data.
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July 20, 2005 - SecureDoc & SES Version 4.0 has been released!
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View the new features available in SecureDoc Enterprise Server version 4.0  more >>

July 5, 2005 - WinMagic, Inc. to be featured on Alexander Haig's World Business Review TV Series
Multi-Media Productions (USA), Inc. announces that WinMagic, Inc. will appear on World Business Review, hosted by General Alexander Haig.  
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July 2005 - WinMagic Opens Office in Europe
WinMagic 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.  
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June 13, 2005 - Mobile computing risks are rising
eWeek reviews SecureDoc and explains the challenges IT administrators are faced with.  
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June 2005 - SecureDoc Disk Encryption Features in eSecurity Magazine
eWeek reviews SecureDoc and explains the challenges IT administrators are faced with.  
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May 2, 2005 - PC-Professionell - Comparison Test - May 2005 (in German)

The German Magazine PC-Professionell has reviewed SecureDoc in its disk encryption product comparison. Time and time again, and also in this test, SecureDoc turns out to be one of the most reliable, feature-rich, secure and versatile full disk encryption solutions worldwide. In this particular test, which was very thorough and objective, we feel that some important disk encryption product features have been overlooked.

In the article, it is stated that SecureDoc, which stores keys in a key file, is not as secure as other products that save keys in inaccessible, hidden locations.
 

• Although it is true that SecureDoc key files can be seen or accessed, this is not a security flaw at all. In fact, if we use the widely-used and widely-scrutinized encryption of email as a model, it is clear that SecureDoc follows the same basic principles. Standard email products such as Microsoft Outlook use files to contain the user's private key file, and open cryptographic standards such as PKCS #12 to help protect these key files even though they can be accessed. We do not consider a key file to be “sensitive material” because its protection is based on cryptography. 
• Anyone with Administration rights on the client machine can see the key file. A regular user would not be able to see or access SecureDoc key files.
• For the protection of a user’s data, WinMagic has designed SecureDoc so that even WinMagic, the manufacturer, cannot access users' computers. Knowing all the obscure space where key files are stored would not help WinMagic attack its SecureDoc product – cryptography helps make encryption products secure based on security, not on obscurity. 

The weakest link in this security design is the user’s password. In addition to including the ability to require users to create strong passwords, SecureDoc offers a unique integration to the high level of security offered by smart cards, USB cryptographic tokens and PKI.

SecureDoc has been designed since the beginning based on open standards, where they have been available. Its network product, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, also conforms to this ideal, using a standard ODBC-based SQL server. WinMagic is of the opinion that using a standard database is better than proprietary databases or even flat files, which are used by other products. Comparing it unfavorably to products that use proprietary designs implies that such designs are desirable, which we strongly feel is not true.

The article raised issues of performance, a SecureDoc quality that is often highly praised by customers. SecureDoc has two encryption modes: one is more thorough than another, but it runs more slowly. In this test, it may have been possible that SecureDoc was tested using this more thorough mode while competitive products may have been tested with less thorough modes. Also, SecureDoc’s ability to allow interruption of the initial encryption does have some impact on encryption performance: do the other products offer such a feature? And the performance on the day to day operations, we suspect, may have been affected by using file encryption on top of disk encryption.

Two more minor points. Integration with third party token manufacturers is a major feature of SecureDoc: perhaps this review should have involved using tokens, which are becoming widely used. And although the stand-alone SecureDoc offers self-help challenge-response password reset only, the enterprise version does have a complete one-time challenge/response feature.

We hope these comments will be taken in the spirit they are intended.

WinMagic Inc.
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April 12, 2005 - SecureDoc Version 3.91 & SecureDoc Enterprise Server Version 2.91 have been released!
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April 1, 2005 - Notebook Computers; Preventing Unauthorized Access to Government Data
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February 14-18, 2005 - WinMagic was both proud and thrilled to be part of the most prestigious and reputable Information Security event in North America, the RSA Conference 2005
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February 14, 2005 - SecureDoc Version 3.9 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.9  more >>

January 24, 2005 - Disk lockdown
Two disk encryption products provide last line of defense | By Maggie Biggs Published on Jan. 24, 2005 - FCW more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.8 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.8  more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.7 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.7  more >>

SecureDoc is ready for Windows XP SP2!
Recently, Microsoft has launched the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) for Service Pack 2 more >>

Straight talk about data security
SecureDoc Helps Out - California Senate Bill 1386, effective since July 1, 2003, forces financial companies to inform customers when their personal data has been lost . . .  more >>

July 22, 2004 - Encryption before booting
The most glaring holes in many security systems ride around the world in executive briefcases . . .  more >>

WinMagic on Euro partner prowl
CANADA-based WinMagic reckons the European disk encryption software space is ready to explode and is looking for channel partners to provide a route into the market . . .  more >>

WinMagic Receives Award for Best Security Product of the Year.
And for our Reader's Choice Award for Best Security Products from Windows & .NET Magazine, Encryption/Digital Signing Software category.  more >>

SecureDoc looks innocent and basic in its DVD-sized packaging containing a CD...
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SecureDoc Version 3.6 has been released!
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SecureDoc Version 3.5 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.5  more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.4 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.4  more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.4 Beta has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.4 Beta more >>

Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act
Companies are now required by law to protect customers information more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.32 Has Been Released!
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SecureDoc Version 3.31b Has Been Released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.31b more >>

SecureDoc Version 3.31 Has Been Released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.31 more >>

Personal SecureDoc is a disk encryption product that codes the entire hard disk, including operating system files and boot sector
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SecureDoc Version 3 now available on GSA for US Government purchase!
SecureDoc disk encryption products are now available under GSA. more >>

More Tokens are Now Supported by SecureDoc
View a list of token that are now supported by SecureDoc more >>

Keeping Secrets
This new version of SecureDoc encrypts all the files on a hard disk, thus preventing the risk associated with temporary files, swap files and backup copies - even files which have been deleted in the ordinary way cannot be recovered by someone using a low-level disk utility. . . .  more >>