Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Wby: HP's Credential Managaer...

Thanks for pointing that out. This new HP branded "Credential Manager" may very well be this:


Wave Systems' EMBASSY Trust Suite 4.0 Secure Enterprise Software Now Available

September 07, 2004

http://www.findbiometrics.com/viewnews.php?id=1489

Secure Software to Be Demonstrated at the Intel Developer Forum, Booth 115, Sept. 7-9, Moscone South Center, San Francisco

LEE, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO- Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX, www.wave.com) announced today that the next version of Wave's secure enterprise software, EMBASSY® Trust Suite (ETS) 4.0, is now available. Components of ETS 4.0 are new or enhanced, including setting strong security preferences for authentication and hardened data protection tailored to business needs.

Wave's ETS 4.0 is available in Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition client packages, or in a client/server package that includes the EMBASSY Trust Server - Key Transfer Manager Enterprise Server AD 2.0.

Wave's ETS 4.0 software suite will be demonstrated this week at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Booth 115, Trusted Computing Group Community, Moscone South Convention Center, San Francisco, CA.

Wave's ETS software solutions are designed to be compliant with the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) specifications. The computer industry has shipped millions of PCs embedded with a TCG-standard chip, called the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). TPMs serve as a platform for secure services and applications - offered by companies such as Wave. Wave has designed its secure business productivity software to work with all TCG-compliant TPMs commercially available. The ETS is also designed to be compatible with the Microsoft Office® environment, and facilitates a variety of PC-related security and productivity tasks, in an intuitive format. Beyond adding security and productivity enhancements that Wave believes are required by businesses, the hallmark of ETS solutions is that they are easy to enable, easy to use and easy to manage by IT administrators.

Building on earlier versions, ETS 4.0 provides advanced security capabilities, including:

EMBASSY Security Center - for establishing security policy management to strengthen authentication to Microsoft Windows and other secure applications with multifactor authentication capabilities, including fingerprint biometrics.

Document Manager Vault - for protecting files and folders in multiple, networked, sharable secure drives that are fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Explorer. Private Information Manager - for secure storage and automation of user names, passwords and personal information now supporting personal notes and multiple identities per login for the same user. SmartSignature - for digital signature capability of secure electronic contracts. Key Transfer Manager - for backup and protection of the hardware encryption keys used for critical personal computer data and fully integrated with the ETS applications for enterprise needs.

Earlier versions of ETS were bundled and are shipping with mainstream industry desktop motherboards and have been tested with all commercially available TCG-compliant TPMs.

ETS 4.0 is available in English with capabilities soon to be delivered in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, simplified Chinese and Russian.

"Wave has listened to our customers and made significant improvements in our ETS capabilities," said Brian Berger, executive vice president, marketing and sales, Wave Systems. "ETS 4.0 now offers more networked capabilities and stronger management and authentication capabilities."


EMBASSY Security Center

New in ETS 4.0 is the EMBASSY Security Center, an application for managing trusted platform security settings including TPM owner management, user management and key management.

Initially, the EMBASSY Security Center enables users to set up and configure ownership of the TPM platform in the PC. It also allows users to easily use hardware security to maximize and simplify the secure authentication required to support an enterprise or government's business processes. To simplify the authentication, the EMBASSY Security Center replaces the multiple, different authentication requests to the TPM with a preferred authentication preference.

By using the EMBASSY Security Center, customers have the ability to activate strong multifactor authentication, secured login and streamlined authentication. For strong multifactor authentication, the EMBASSY Security Center enables various authentication methods, including individual passwords, a master password, biometrics or any combination thereof. The biometric fingerprint authentication provides an additional strong authentication mechanism and facilitates Microsoft Windows login, network/domain login, computer unlock, application login and authentication to the TPM platform in the PC. The EMBASSY Security Center currently supports devices containing AuthenTec AES3500 and AES4000 fingerprint sensors.

"We are very pleased to be part of Wave's latest ETS release," said Bill Dennehy, vice president of sales for AuthenTec. "Security in any environment is only as strong as its weakest link, and that goes for TPM based systems as well. AuthenTec's fingerprint sensors overcome the inherent security weaknesses of passwords and make TPM systems very convenient and easy to use."

Wave is a member of the TCG, an industry organization dedicated to embedding trust and security more broadly into computing platforms and devices. More information on Wave's ETS software is available at www.wave.com.