"Resembling a large input of venture capital assets for Wave, close to triple the purchase price, together with some 2000 more potential customers, this purchase brings some of the world's best security engineers under the Wave umbrella. As the announcement put it, "The acquisition will enable Wave to deliver a holistic trusted computing management platform that roots software security to trusted computing hardware and provides the enterprise with interoperability across all platforms."
Supplying components for endpoint system sales that Wave already makes and integrates, Safend has lacked pricing power. Thus it has not realized the full benefits of its world leading security solutions. But consummated by the fully complementary Wave technologies, the combined company becomes an endpoint security powerhouse."
(As most of you know, I am a member of the Wave board of directors but as always this post is based on public information only).
"RIM Plans to Enable Corporate ID on Embedded Chips in NFC BlackBerrys"
Published: Sep 16 2011
By: Dan Balaban
BlackBerry phone maker Research in Motion plans to enable enterprises to store their corporate badges and other access-control and ID applications on embedded chips in its NFC phones.
HID Global, a large supplier of physical access-control systems, announced the working relationship with RIM Thursday. It leaves little doubt that corporate ID is one of the applications RIM has planned for the embedded chips in its NFC-enabled BlackBerrys.
HID, which is part of giant digital door lock maker Assa Abloy, said it is adapting its iCLASS corporate and student ID card applications for the first BlackBerry NFC models RIM is introducing–the Bold 9900 and related 9930, and the Curve 9350 along with its close cousins, the 9360 and 9370.
The applications would work with the base of iCLASS readers at corporate and college campuses and other institutions, enabling employees and students to tap their phones to enter offices, dormitories and other buildings, said HID.
HID would be able to deliver the credentials to employee phones over the air, with the help of a trusted service manager, or TSM. Related applications using NFC could include time and attendance, network-access control and enabling closed-loop payment at corporate cafeterias, HID told NFC Times.
These physical-access control and related applications would be stored on embedded chips in the BlackBerrys, HID confirmed.
Besides the contactless door-access applications, RIM might store credentials on the embedded chips to secure network-based services.
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