Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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P.S. Weby re: large organizations implementing TPMs:

Regarding the budgeting issue (in your example the DoD), I don't believe the decision to activate TPMs or not is ultimately much of a cost issue for the DoD IT folks. It's more like a change in IT practices issue, in the case of implementing trusted computing, making TPM implementation standard. In the DoD's case, if one of their agencies is paying Wave to study implementing TPMs, their IT people must have questions about how to go about using them. More details than what you and I know to be the fairly simple act of initialzing the TPM and configuring a certificate for machine identity? Apparently.

The point I was attempting to make in my preceding post is that while to you and me (and of course to Wave!) the value of implementing TPM in a PC (securing machine identity in hardware) makes as much sense as having a SIM card in a cell phone to secure cell phone credentials in hardware, the enterprise IT people have been slow to see the ROI for having the more secure credentials that TPM provides. The good news though is that as more time passes the argument for having hardware-secured PC credentials is harder to ignore. It just makes good sense! And...based on what we hear Wave presenting in CCs as well as investor presentations, Wave is on the cusp of having large customers implementing TPMs. I began to suspect some time ago that the first large adopters would be in private enterprise, not the gov't, and it looks like I am going to be correct! I really believe having some large private organizations adopt will help the gov't/military advance their own TPM adoption more rapidly, especially should some of the customers (Wave's) be large gov't contractors like NG, Lockheed Martin, Boeing etc..

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Btw, did I forget to mention Wave has shipped, isn't 60m and counting, Dell ETS licenses? That's a lot of licenses! It's not a big deal for the customer to push the software out to their machines or even to go into the BIOS and initialize TPMs. They only have to see the value in using their TPMs for more secure credentialing!