Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Wave Partners with SafeNet to Expand Enterprise Security Offerings for Data-at-Rest

Lee, MA — April 8, 2008 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: WAVX; www.wave.com ) today announced it has completed a reseller agreement with SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security. Wave is now authorized to globally market and distribute SafeNet’s ProtectDrive line of software disk encryption products. Wave may also advise clients on the uses of SafeNet’s products in conjunction with its own software to enable both software- and hardware-based data protection throughout the enterprise.

“SafeNet is pleased to be partnering with Wave Systems on its ProtectDrive solution,” said Chris Holland, vice president of product management, SafeNet. “Wave’s focus on the broad market need for secure data protection, strong authentication and network security will enable companies of all sizes to benefit from our combined solutions. This market offering will allow businesses to address all their data protection needs across the enterprise under one management console provided by Wave.”
Wave’s EMBASSY client and server software leverages the security features of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), an open standards security chip that serves as a tamper-resistant storage vault for user credentials. By leveraging Wave’s software in conjunction with the TPM, enterprises can immediately roll out strong authentication, including machine, biometric and smart card authentication, as well as instituting stronger network policies, key management and data protection. In addition, Wave provides management capabilities for fully encrypting hard drives to enable password setup and recovery, pre-boot authentication, remote deployment and lifecycle management. Wave’s automated compliance auditing features also allows an IT department to quickly verify that all data on a lost or stolen laptop was stored safely on the drive by using Wave’s enterprise server class software.

“SafeNet’s expertise in developing enterprise-class IT security and encryption technology makes them an ideal partner for us as we continue to expand our offerings to meet enterprise data protection needs,” said Brian Berger, executive vice president, marketing and sales, Wave Systems Corp. “We look forward to offering customers the ability to manage SafeNet’s ProtectDrive products, as well as trusted hardware security, using Wave’s EMBASSY solutions.”

From 2004
SafeNet has released a software development kit that allows designers to secure mobile phones developed around Texas Instruments' OMAP5912 baseband processor.

The new kit, called SafeZone, implements the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) TSS architecture, which defines a trusted set of application programming interfaces for mobile applications. Specific APIs supported include the TSS v1.2 API, PKCS#11, Microsoft CAPI and Symbian CryptoAPI.

The software toolkit works with the crypto engines resident on the OMAP processor. When working with these engines, the toolkit allows designers to implement key management, digital signature, random number generation, hashing, and encryption/decryption capabilities to mobile designs.
The kit is available as portable C code or in a software trusted platform module (TPM) implementation for TI's OMAP secure mode architecture.
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