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WinMagic’s SecureDoc Becomes The First Full-Disk Encryption Solution To Achieve FIPS 140-2 Validation For Microsoft Vista

SecureDoc Makes It Simple for Organizations to Migrate to Microsoft Windows Vista

July 20, 2007; 01:19 AM

Mississauga, Ontario – WinMagic® Inc. (www.winmagic.com), the innovative leader in full-disk encryption, is proud to announce that SecureDoc is the first full-disk encryption solution to receive FIPS 140-2 validation for Microsoft Windows Vista from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment. As the only solution to enable government agencies and corporations to incorporate full-disk encryption that meets FIPS 140-2 criteria for Vista within a complete security solution, SecureDoc is uniquely positioned to ensure that today’s investment in encryption technology will return an ROI tomorrow as government agencies and business entities migrate to Windows Vista.

“WinMagic was the first full-disk encryption vendor to pass DISA’s Joint Interoperability Test Command, the first to receive FIPS 140-2 level 1 and 2 validations for Windows XP and 2000, holds NIST Certificate #1 for our AES 256-bit crypto engine, and is the only product authorized by the NSA to protect SECRET level data, and so it is only fitting that it is now the first to achieve FIPS 140-2 validation for Vista,” said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO, WinMagic. “Over the past five to 10 years, WinMagic is proud to say that it has played a leadership role within the encryption community,” Nguyen-Huu continued. “And this announcement today is simply another first in a long line of firsts for SecureDoc.”
Having recently been selected to protect sensitive, unclassified data residing on laptops, other mobile computing devices, and removable storage media devices by the OMB, U.S. Department of Defense, and U.S. General Services Administration, SecureDoc is now ideally positioned to ensure organizations installing Vista can meet all HSPD-12 and OMB directive requirements. Redesigned from the ground up to seamlessly integrate with all editions of Windows Vista at preboot, SecureDoc prevents unauthorized access to personal identifiable information and sensitive data resulting from lost notebooks, USB thumb drives, CD/DVD’s, and USB flash drives. Working at the pre-boot level, SecureDoc makes it simple to incorporate single- or multi-factor authentication through password, USB hardware tokens, smartcard, biometrics, and PKI technology. For a full list of smart cards and readers supported by SecureDoc, visit http://www.winmagic.com/solutions/third-party-integration.html.
WinMagic worked closely with hardware manufacturers to ensure SecureDoc is Windows Vista compatible on their technology, and has begun discussions that will see SecureDoc incorporated as part of each hardware manufacturer’s standard product build – making it even simpler to utilize full-disk encryption to protect all data.
WinMagic’s purity of design protects an organization’s existing investment in encryption technology as the same version of SecureDoc can be utilized for Windows XP/2000, and any edition of Vista. SecureDoc also supports the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) v1.2 to ensure organizations can utilize this feature as a second layer of security or at pre-boot. It is this competitive advantage that will allow WinMagic to continue to support Windows Vista as it evolves.
True to WinMagic’s guiding principle that “whatever you can do with an unencrypted disk you should be able to do with an encrypted disk,” protecting end-point devices with SecureDoc translates into the ultimate transparency for the end user without sacrificing the integrity of securing sensitive data. For example, SecureDoc makes it possible for users not to have a password due to the fact that they can be authenticated through their profile, and hence be provisioned their appropriate encryption key to securely access their devices or data stores.
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].

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Michael O’Keeffe, on behalf of WinMagic Inc.
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