WinMagic Announces Support for Linux

June 5, 2007; 01:00 AM

Mississauga, Ontario, and Washington DC – WinMagic^® Inc. (www.winmagic.com), the innovative leader in disk encryption, today announced that its SecureDoc full-disk encryption product will support Linux by September, 2007.  WinMagic (Booth 412) is currently demonstrating a working version of SecureDoc for Linux, which supports Novell SUSE for desktops and laptops, at the Gartner Security Summit in Washington DC.  The demonstration shows a single multi-boot laptop running Windows Vista, XP, and Linux encryption.

SecureDoc for Linux underscores WinMagic’s commitment to open system standards by providing Linux users with encryption software to protect data at rest.  In doing so, WinMagic is meeting the demand within it customer base and the market place to protect data on end-point devices.

SecureDoc’s unique and robust design will provide organizations working on Linux with a transparent encryption solution for end-point devices that will lower the total cost of ownership and enrich the end-user experience. 

“In recognition of the increased demand for Linux, WinMagic has developed an end-point encryption solution which will make it simple for Linux users to protect data at rest no matter where it may reside,” said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Inc.  “In developing and testing SecureDoc for the Linux environment, WinMagic’s main focus was to provide the marketplace with an encryption product that will not yield on performance, functionality, or ease of use,” Nguyen-Huu continued.  “Our support for Linux is yet another sign of WinMagic’s dedication to open system standards and to furthering those standards for the data encryption market place.”

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 [email protected].