Combined Solution will Offer Customers Greater Options while Reducing Cost of Ownership
Mississauga, Ontario, February 20, 2008 – WinMagic® Data Security, the innovative leader in endpoint security, today announced that it has partnered with MXI Security™, the leader in managed portable security solutions, to integrate the companies’ endpoint security solutions. WinMagic and MXI Security will introduce support for MXI Security Stealth MXP™ and Outbacker MXP™ portable security devices within WinMagic’s SecureDoc™ security suite, to provide customers with greater choice and increased efficiencies from consolidated management.
“MXI Security’s award-winning Stealth MXP and Outbacker MXP are perfect complements to WinMagic’s proven encryption solutions for laptops, PDAs, removable media and data files,” said Lawrence Reusing, Chief Executive Officer of MXI Security. “Our integrated solution will provide security-conscious customers with many more choices for protecting sensitive mobile data, and the confidence of knowing that each option they choose to deploy delivers robust, FIPS-approved security.”
As a result of the partnership, customers will get the benefits of a single, enterprise-class platform for administering both SecureDoc client software and MXI Security’s portable devices.
“In choosing encryption solutions for endpoint devices, customers want the flexibility to choose the ‘right tool for the right job’,” said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security. “Yet at the same time they required extensible management tools that allow them to effectively administer a heterogeneous environment, comprising both hardware and software-based encryption solutions. We are pleased to be working with MXI Security to bring Stealth MXP and Outbacker MXP portable security solutions within our SecureDoc management offering.”
MXI Security’s Stealth MXP and Outbacker MXP are ideally suited for organizations that require up to 3-factor authentication (biometric, password or both) and AES 256-bit on-board hardware encryption to satisfy their needs for securely storing up to hundreds gigabytes of confidential information. The Stealth MXP and Stealth MXP Passport products have received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 level 2 validation, a necessary requirement for deployment within the U.S. Government.
Under the terms of the agreement reached last week, WinMagic will resell Stealth MXP and Outbacker MXP co-branded as ‘SecureDoc Unplugged’ to customers around the world.
“Our research has consistently shown that IT organizations are driven by security and compliance requirements to protect sensitive data, while at the same time they are under considerable pressure to reduce operational costs,” said Derek E. Brink, Vice President and Research Director for IT Security at Aberdeen Group. “Companies with the best performance take an enterprise-wide view of encryption as part of an overall information security strategy, and use a centralized key management platform – supporting encryption solutions from multiple vendors – to realize higher levels of automation and lower total cost of ownership.”
This strategic partnership with MXI Security clearly confirms the WinMagic commitment to strengthening our SecureDoc security suite with best-in-class portable security devices, and address our corporate and government customers’ wide-ranging requirements for a comprehensive, manageable security solution for portable data,” added Nguyen-Huu.
About WinMagic Data Security
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.
About MXI Security
MXI Security™ leads the way in providing superior managed portable security solutions designed to meet the highest security and privacy standards of even the most demanding customers.
MXI Security solutions combine the power of strong user authentication, digital identity and data encryption to protect access to sensitive information and systems.
Easy to manage and transparent to the end user, MXI Security solutions enable organizations to satisfy multiple security needs with a single device, facilitating greater mobility without compromising security.
For more information please visit www.mxisecurity.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 Contacts:
For WinMagic:
Michael L. O’Keeffe
Communication Strategies, Inc.
Telephone: (416) 760-0100
mokeeffe@comstratpr.com
For MXI Security:
Jeff Fishburn
OnPR for MXI Security
Direct: (503) 802-4408
Mobile: (503) 799-1988
jeff@onpr.com
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