Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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nicknmaen, here is the Secude product for Seagate FDE:

It's called TiDoCoMi, and I can't find it among their products listed, so it may be yet to be released. Anyway I don't know why you think it's so darn cheap compared to TDM...how can anybody make that assumption? As I said in my last post, if a buyer of the Seagate FDE drive was to pay at least $100 more just for the hardware, they are already spending a premium just for the hardware. So, what kind of savings exactly would be the Secude software vs. implementing TPMs including perhaps an extra $20 (my guess) paid to Dell for TDM?

Here is the Secude/Seagate demo at this fall's Storage Newtworking World.

http://www.secude.com/htm/386/en/News-Detail.htm?News=9576

Here is the Seagate DriveTrust announcement that mentioned both the Secude and Wave solutions demoed at Storage Networking World. We know the Secude solution is non-TPM and Wave's is TPM. Btw, while Secude is a TCG member, if you do a TPM search at their website you get zero results.

http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1539,3347,00.html

Storage Networking Industry Association Solutions Center
Seagate and software partners SECUDE IT Security and Wave Systems, leaders in delivering computer security solutions, will demonstrate state-of-the-art data security for notebook computers using Momentus 5400 FDE.2 in single-user and enterprise deployments.

So what might be the cost comparison of implementing Secude's TiDoCoMi with a Seagate FDE drive vs. a full Wave server-enabled TPM implementation with a Seagate FDE drive?

Well, we don't know what TiDoCoMi costs. We do know the full Wave enterprise suite including server licenses nets Wave about $50, so figure $100 cost to the user plus I want to guess another $20 for TDM to the user ($10 for Wave from Dell)...for a total w/ TDM of $120/seat...obviously just a ballpark guess. Frankly I don't think these costs would be considered outrageously high against existing non-TCG solutions. As I mentioned in my previous post, the issue for an enterprise re: Secude vs. Wave is TPM implementation vs. not using their TPMs. I really think Dell and Wave are offering a cost structure that is competitive with existing non-TPM solutions.