Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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EEE and vPro.

Cisco Security Solutions with Intel® vPro™ Technology

Cisco® and Intel are collaborating to enable better enforcement of endpoint security policies through an integration of Cisco Security Agent* and Intel® vPro™ technology.

The integration of Cisco and Intel technologies will allow IT administrators to implement differentiated policy enforcement and configuration based on the security state of the endpoint.

When used on PCs with Intel vPro technology, Cisco Security Agent offers new mechanisms for IT administrators to make more informed decisions regarding enforcement of network policy compliance. Adding a Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC)Framework* enhances device discovery, enables the “always-available” communication channel in PCs with Intel vPro technology, and provides access to detailed, pre-
boot BIOS settings and hardware asset information. This can help streamline security processes, increase customer trust in network endpoints, and establish new levels of protection between the network and PCs. http://www.ciscointelalliance.com/resources/view_resource.aspx?ResourceID=83.

Q. Does Wave Software work with Cisco Network Access Control?

A. Yes, currently Wave ETS can be deployed with Cisco NAC for strong machine identification. However, at this time Cisco NAC is not interoperable with EEE and therefore cannot use it to verify the health of PC metrics.
http://www.wavesys.com/news/events/interop07/Wave%20Interop%202007%20FAQ.pdf.

Wave Announces Availability of EMBASSY® Embassy Network Access Control and Endpoint Enforcer Security Solutions at InterOp New York.

Network Access Control for Existing Infrastructure Available Now: Product Demonstrations at InterOp Trusted Network Connect Event

Wave's new network security solutions will be demonstrated at InterOp, in a Trusted Network Connect event co-sponsored by Wave on Wednesday, September 20 (Room 2D08 – details below)
Lee, MA– September 18, 2006 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX www.wave.com) today announced the availability of two new IT security products, introducing EMBASSY® Network Access Control and EMBASSY® Endpoint Enforcer. EMBASSY Network Access Control is designed to leverage existing network infrastructure and open industry standards for IT control over which PC clients can be used to access a network, locking out unauthorized machines.

EMBASSY Endpoint Enforcer (EEE) is an open, standards-based solution designed to work with many network access control solutions. Wave is demonstrating interoperability with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) protocol known as Trusted Network Connect (TNC).Wave plans to develop a version of EEE that is also interoperable with Microsoft's® NAP and Cisco's® NAC architecture.
http://www.wavesys.com/news/press_archive/06/060918_INTEROP.html

Steven on network access control:
I think this will be another very significant sector in the market for Wave in relationship to network access control. In May, at the Interop show, we demonstrated the role of the Trusted platform module in connection with both Microsoft and Juniper's network access control strategies. What this in essence does is there are really two key roles for the Trusted platform module in any network access control solution. One is for the TPM to provide the role of strong machine identity. This would be true not only for Microsoft and Juniper but also for Cisco solutions, where the TPM can store a unique key and before any machine is connected to the network, the network switch will verify that key is present and it's an authorized key before that machine is connected. This is how ultimately you can make the statement that only XYZ Corp.'s machines are on XYZ Corp.'s network, and really can provide a tremendous deterrent to someone stealing user IDs and passwords or other access credentials, gaining access to a corporation.

The second is to use the Trusted platform module to sign and what the industry calls measure the health certificates of the network access control solution. So in the case of a machine connecting to the network, what the Trusted platform module does is it collects any measurement data that's done before the machine connects; it signs it, and it prepares what looks like a health report and submits that health report with a request for connection. If the health report is satisfactory, then the network switch will provide an IP address and the machine will be connected. So this is a great way to ensure that every corporate PC is in compliance with corporate IT policies around anti-virus, certain applications, certain types of software needs, either needing to be or not be installed on specific platforms.

The reason this is important for Wave is that we see these technologies packaged in Windows 2008 server. As the Windows 2008 server rolls out across the market over the course of the next few years, this will be one of the huge driving reasons to turn all enterprise TPMs on. So if you look out a number of years, this is one of the applications that will drive the multiple hundreds of millions of endpoints on the network to end up with their Trusted platform modules turned on. By no means the only application, but demonstrating the capabilities, having Wave's products as part of the solutions being offered, we're in a very unique position today to have built our Embassy Endpoint Enforcer software in a position where we are demonstrating with the market-leading NAC solutions how the TPM properly integrates according to the Trusted Computing Group standards.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/43949-wave-systems-q2-2007-earnings-call-transcript