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2005 Mar 1, Seagate Technology and Wave Systems Corp. are demonstrating new hardware-based data protection capabilities in trusted computing platforms as part of the Intel Digital Office Community at the Intel Developers Forum, March 1-3, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California.
(IHub #71632, 3/1/05)

2005 Jun 14, Wave Systems Corp. has announced that it is extending its EMBASSY® Trust Suite software products to support the new Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE hard drives with hardware-based Full Disc Encryption technology. Seagate and Wave have worked together to ensure complementary technologies that address new market opportunities for security and data protection in the trusted computing market.
(IHub #84809, 6/14/05)

2005 Nov 9, Members of the Trusted Computing Group have elected representatives from Infineon, Seagate Technologies and Wave Systems to the organization's board of directors for a one-year term. Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an open industry standards organization whose specifications help vendors build products that let users protect critical data and information across a variety of devices and platforms.
(IHub #100662, 11/9/05)

2006 Feb 13, Seagate Technology, the world's leading hard drive maker, and Wave Systems Corp. are teaming up at the RSA Conference 2006, February 13-17, at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center to showcase the latest development in data security. The two companies will demonstrate a security solution that combines the strongest protection available for intellectual property, personal information and other sensitive data stored on lost or stolen notebook PCs with a simple way to manage and protect encryption keys and passwords.
(IHub #109108, 2/13/06)

2006 Feb 15, Security Research Associates, 2nd Annual Winter Technology Conference in San Francisco: Steven Sprague:
…We formed a partnership with them (Seagate), that we would build the enterprise software to support their new Trusted drives. Because Seagate’s not an enterprise software company, they’re a drive manufacturing company. And so we built the software support for their new drives. You have to buy the software from Wave. In some cases we’ll provide bundled solutions. We are today the only provider of software for the Seagate drive that demonstrates any functionality. There are open standards solutions we fully expect a few others to enter in producing this. But we’ve integrated that capability now into the same client software we ship to the PC OEMs.
(2/15/06, SRA, 2nd Annual Winter Technology Conference in San Francisco)

2006 Jun 7, Wave Systems Corp. has announced the availability of the EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager software supporting Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE (Full Disc Encryption) hard drives. EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager (ETDM) is the newest component of Wave's EMBASSY software products, which provide industry standard-based support for security hardware such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and the Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE hard drives with hardware-based Full Disc Encryption technology. Seagate and Wave have worked together to ensure that their complementary products address the new market opportunities for security and trusted computing in the data protection markets.
(IHub #122,871, 6/7/06)

2007 Mar 15, Wave Systems Corp. today announced the availability of advanced management software delivered on a new generation of Seagate Technology encrypting notebook PC hard drives, enabling a significant step forward in data security for laptops.
New versions of Wave's EMBASSY(R) Security Center including EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager (ETDM) and the EMBASSY Remote Administration Server (ERAS) software now support Seagate's Momentus 5400 (Full Disc Encryption) FDE.2 hard drive, the latest generation of Seagate's FDE drives based on the company's DriveTrust(TM) technology.
(IHub #139,504, 3/15/07)

2007 May 14, Wave Systems Corp. today announced the company will showcase its data protection management software for the new generation of fully encrypting notebook PC hard drives from Seagate Technology and will demonstrate its solutions for strong authentication and establishing machine identity at the Microsoft WinHEC 2007 conference taking place this week in Los Angeles.
(IHub #144,611, 5/14/07)

2007 May 15, Wave Systems Corp. today announced the company will showcase its data protection management software for the new generation of fully encrypting notebook PC hard drives from Seagate Technology and will demonstrate its solutions for strong authentication and establishing machine identity at the Microsoft WinHEC 2007 conference taking place this week in Los Angeles.
(IHub #144,726, 5/15/07)

2007 Oct 15, Members of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) have elected representatives from Fujitsu Limited, Seagate Technology and Wave Systems Corp. to the organization's board of directors.
(IHub #153,021, 10/15/07)

2007 Dec 11, NEC Computers, a subsidiary of NEC Corp., today unveiled new secure laptops with built-in hardware security enabling strong authentication and encryption designed to prevent unauthorized access to laptop information in the event the system or hard drive is lost or stolen… The new data security offering combines the Seagate® Technology (NYSE: STX) Momentus® FDE.2 (Full Disc Encryption) hard drive with DriveTrustTM technology and Wave's EMBASSY® software into an easy-to-use and scalable solution that enables organizations to provide comprehensive data protection and automated compliance auditing for lost, stolen or recycled laptops.
(http://www.nec-computers.com/News/news.asp?id=133)

2008 Mar 13, Wave Systems Corp., today announced that it has completed the qualification and testing of its EMBASSY Trust Suite, including the EMBASSY Trusted Drive Manager software, on Lenovo PCs with Seagate Momentus(R) FDE hard drives, adding Lenovo to the list of its supported OEMs offering robust hardware data protection. Wave's Trusted Drive Manager software, Lenovo Edition, is now available as an option on the ThinkPad R61 series with Seagate Momentus Full Disc Encryption (FDE) hard drives.
(IHub #160636, 3/13/08)

2008 Apr 7, Wave Systems Corp. today announced it will conduct multiple demonstrations for strong authentication and data protection with its EMBASSY® line of interoperable software for managing hardware security at RSA Conference 2008, April 7-10, at the Moscone Center. Demonstrations will focus on showing available solutions that support the next-generation Intel® Centrino 2 with vPro technology platform (code named Montevina), with an integrated Intel® TPM v. 1.2. In addition, the company will also showcase its capabilities for management of the Seagate Momentus® 5400 FDE.2 line of FDE drives.
(IHub #162,266, 4/7/08)

2008 Apr 8, Wave Systems Corp. today announced a proof-of-concept solution for ensuring the integrity of data protection hardware. At RSA Conference 2008, Wave will show the Trust-and-Verify Web service, in which a server interrogates computers seeking access to sensitive data in order to verify the status of their Seagate full disk encryption hard drive. Only after this verification step occurs and the level of data protection is deemed adequate, can a PC download requested data. This next-generation solution measures and reports the integrity of a user’s PC, a critical requirement for protecting sensitive information.
(IHub #162,348, 4/8/08)

2008 May 12, Wave Systems Corp. announced it is participating in Dell’s global “Future of Computing” Road Show, demonstrating the company’s hardware-based data protection solutions with Seagate Technology, LLC. The tour encompasses 149 cities worldwide, with the first leg of the U.S. tour starting May 13, 2008 in Pittsburgh. The European tour began in Berlin on April 22, 2008. The full tour is expected to draw close to 10,000 attendees comprised of IT directors, managers and administrators.
(IHub #164,464, 5/12/08)

2008 Jun 2, Wave Systems announced today that it has accepted an invitation from the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) to assume a permanent seat on its Board of Directors, joining permanent members AMD, HP, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Sun and Seagate Technology. Wave has also agreed to elevate its membership status to the highest level of TCG “Promoter.” Permanent members of the TCG Board provide guidance to the organization’s work groups in the creation of the specifications to protect PCs and other computing devices from attacks and to help prevent data loss and theft.
(IHub #165,633, 6/2/08)

2008 Jun 3, Wave Systems Corp. announced it is participating in Dell's global "Future of Computing" Road Show, demonstrating the company's hardware-based data protection solutions with Seagate Technology, LLC. The tour encompasses 149 cities worldwide, with the first leg of the U.S. tour starting May 13, 2008 in Pittsburgh. The European tour began in Berlin on April 22, 2008. The full tour is expected to draw close to 10,000 attendees comprised of IT directors, managers and administrators.
(IHub #165,708, 6/3/08)

2008 Nov 10, Wave Systems Corp. today announced the availability of enhanced versions of EMBASSY Trust Suite, including Trusted Drive Manager, which incorporate support for the new Momentus FDE 7200RPM and 5400RPM self-encrypting drives from Seagate Technology LLC, the storage leader's largest-capacity and fastest hardware-based Full Disk Encryption (FDE) drives to date. In addition, the new versions of Wave's industry-leading trusted computing software being shipped by Dell include support for secure Windows Standby mode, pre-boot authentication, single sign-on and Windows password synchronization.
(Ihub #172,557, 11/10/08)

2009 Jan 27, WAVX today announced its support for a new industry specification to enable stronger data protection and help organizations comply with increasingly tough regulations aimed at preventing a data breach. The first public version of the Trusted Computing Group's Opal security subsystem storage specification was announced today, giving vendors a "blueprint" for developing self-encrypting drives that secure data. Wave has developed or is working on Opal-compliant FDE solutions with Fujitsu, Toshiba and Hitachi, along with its currently shipping FDE solution with Seagate.
(Ihub #174,601, 1/27/09)

2010 Feb 16, Before selecting one of the leading software-based full disk encryption solutions, consider this: It could take up to 24 hours to configure, install and encrypt the contents of the hard drive. That's per user. Compare this to self-encrypting drives -- where encryption is built into the drive itself. Each drive takes only a minute or two to configure. These and other findings are detailed in the newly published review "FDE Performance Comparison: Hardware vs. Software Full Drive Encryption," by Trusted Strategies LLC, an advisory firm specializing in IT security based in Pleasanton, California. The complete report, sponsored by Seagate Technology and Wave Systems, is available at
(www.trustedstrategies.com/papers/comparing_hardware_and_software_fde.pdf)(Ihub #188,077, 2/16/10)

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