Snackman
When I read a post like the one posted below, all I can think of is that if a Company such as Papa Ginos/D'Angelo Sandwich can find Security and value(ROI) in the relatively low tech industry of restaurants, what amount of value will this application have in healthcare, Gov't, high tech business, or for that matter almost any business! I guess all that is needed is education/awareness. Then, I think of a couple thousand Dell employees doing that, and I feel extremely safe in this investment, and as long as it remains at these prices, I will continue to add and add! The first couple test cases are the hardest, then the snowball begins to grow and pick up speed. And then there's the general public which is demanding more security! I really am enjoying these prices while they last!
That is only Dell! How about Seagate, Gateway, G&D and a list of others!
Wavxmasdter
Posted by: 24601
In reply to: None Date:10/4/2005 12:37:03 PM
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This point has been made before, but I think it bears repeating.
Wave's news release on September 26 included one sub-headline and a single paragraph on the Papa Gino's case study.
The sub-headline read as follows:
"Wave's Embassy® Software Platform Delivers Flexible and Cost Effective Trusted Computing Solutions to Papa Gino's New England Restaurant Chain"
The paragraph read as follows:
"'We have evaluated many of the trusted computing solutions available from the PC industry and believe that Wave's Embassy software was the best solution available,' said Chris Cahalin, network manager for Papa Gino's Holdings Corp., who is responsible for the corporate network comprising more than 400 D'Angelo Sandwich Shops and Papa Gino's restaurants. 'We are especially pleased with our ability to easily encrypt files for overnight backup and be able to keep the encryption keys safely stored in a separate server. If those back up files are ever lost or stolen, as we have seen reported in the news about other companies recently, the data would be safe because of the encryption. We are using Wave's trusted computing technology for applications today, from data protection to policy management to password management. We believe it is a superior solution.'"
So the remainder of the release looked like this:
"Wave Systems Launches First Enterprise-Class Secure Software Solutions Suite for Trusted Computing Market
"Lee, MA – September 26, 2005 — Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX) announced today that the next version of Wave's secure software platform, Embassy Trust Suite 5.0 and the Embassy Enterprise Authentication Server, is now available for trusted computing for business and government applications. New and improved trusted computing features include network policy management, data protection, biometric authentication, smart card authentication, password authentication and machine authentication of a user's personal computer to a server.
"Wave's newest Embassy platform capabilities include sophisticated policy management capabilities delivered by the authentication server. The Embassy software is designed to allow an IT manager to set varying security policies in a business, so that one department, such as accounting or legal, could be required to logon to trusted computers using biometric sensors, while other departments, such as shipping, could continue using passwords and or smart cards or the TPM itself using PKI certificate authentication. Using the Embassy platform, IT managers can change the departmental security policies as needed.
"Wave's Embassy software is designed to support the next generation security chip hardware, called Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2. The computer industry has shipped millions of PCs embedded with the Trusted Computing Group-standard TPM 1.1 chip and now shipping is the next generation 1.2 TPM chip. Wave's Embassy platform supports both standards.
"TPMs help enable secure services and applications. Wave has designed its Embassy technology to work with all commercially available TCG-compliant TPMs. Wave's Embassy platform is also designed to be compatible with the Microsoft Office® environment, and to facilitate a variety of PC-related security and productivity tasks.
"'Now trusted computer users have available a simplified yet enhanced level of security protection through the implementation of strong authentication capabilities that make available biometrics, smart cards, passwords or the TPM, all tailored to specific business needs,' said Steven Sprague, president and CEO, Wave Systems.
"'In addition to the enhanced single client solutions, Wave has available new authentication server capabilities for secure logon to Windows domains, computer platform attestation, policy management solutions across an enterprise domain and new key management capabilities,' said Brian Berger, Wave executive vice president, marketing and sales.
"Wave's Embassy Trust Suite is designed to be integrated with Wave's key backup server solution, Key Transfer Manager Enterprise Server. Embassy technologies are designed to provide IT administrators the tools needed to configure, manage and backup their trusted PCs.
"Important attributes of Wave's Embassy Trust Suite 5.0 include:
• Embassy Security Center - for establishing security policy management to strengthen authentication to Microsoft Windows and other secure applications with multifactor authentication capabilities.
• Document Manager Vault - for protecting files and folders in multiple, networked, sharable secure drives that are compatible with Microsoft Windows Explorer.
• Private Information Manager - for secure storage and automation of user names, passwords and personal information.
• SmartSignature - for digital signature capability of secure electronic contracts.
• Key Transfer Manager - for backup and protection of hardware encryption keys.
• Embassy Enterprise Authentication Server – for policy managed authentication requirements to the domain.
"Wave is a member of the Trusted Computing Group (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."
I think those who mock this announcement with pizza jokes are misguided.
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