Dig, thanks for your response. First, I'll say that I'm not an IT guy so my understaning of "managing" is limited. But I would suggest that while "managing" definitely has connotations of "enabling" it also suggests "controlling". In other words, I think the point that remains to be seen is just to what extent all these devices need to be controlled/known etc. Just to give an example of what I mean, it's quite reasonable to think that a company could enable bitlocker or use a SED for each employee's gadget *without* central management of that. Doing so would provide enhanced security over not doing so, but the actual $$$ outlay would be cheaper (no purchase of central management software).
Now that example clearly forgoes the alleged benefits of central management that Wave touts, but such a model does exist. What I'm truely puzzled about is the lack of awareness that IT folks seem to have with the TPM and hardware capabilities, and/or Wave's lack of salesmanship of the same. And then what follows is their lack of vision into the benefits of central management. Maybe I'm just dead wrong but I would think that if anyone would know about TPMs and security it would be the IT crowd, and similarly they would understand the benefits of having a known device on their network. Now maybe up until now it's just been a cost/benefit thing- after all sometimes it's easier and cheaper to settle than litigate even if you're right. Perhaps they just couldn't convince management to plop down $50 a pop for their 100,000 employees. I'm not exactly sure what magically sways them to now other than the ever increasing security threats and the general propensity for crowd-like behavior. After all, if everyone else is doing it then maybe I should too. Sorry, just rambling a bit.
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