|
contents | business | |||||||
| Staatsministerium Baden-Wurttemberg Selects WinMagic's SecureDoc Full-Disk Encryption WinMagic announces that its SecureDoc full-disk encryption software has been selected by Staatsministerium Baden-Wurttemberg (B-W), the government body of the Premier in the province of Baden-Wurttemberg (Germany) to protect all data on its laptops. SecureDoc was selected based on the robustness and flexibility of its highly-secure data encryption, including its unique ability to seamlessly integrate with Staatsministerium B-W's existing single sign-on biometric authentication. Taking into account corporate governance regarding security, Staatsministerium B-W recognized that the pre-boot authentication component would be just as crucial as the actual data encryption component. Having had previous experience with biometrics as a means of authentication, Staatsministerium B-W understood that secure user authentication had to take place at pre-boot time, instead of at Windows logon. Therefore, in order to adhere to its strict security policy, the full-disk encryption solution selected had to be able to seamlessly integrate with multi-factor user authentication via password, smart card, and biometrics at pre-boot. Only one solution met this critical requirement: SecureDoc. WinMagic's experience integrating full-disk encryption with smart cards, USB crypto tokens, PKI certificates, and biometric devices at pre-boot, enabled it to develop a solution that met all Staatsministerium B-W's data security requirements in a matter of days. The solution, which comprised of SecureDoc full-disk encryption, IBM's JCOP41 smart card, Precise Biometrics' 250MC fingerprint reader, and A.E.T. Europe's SafeSign Precise middleware was successfully demonstrated by StarTech, WinMagic's Stuttgart-based certified SecureDoc reseller for the region of Baden-Wurttemberg. The need for simple system administration was met by SecureDoc's intuitive management GUI. Administrators were further assisted during set up by the fact that SecureDoc does not require its own partition on the hard drive, which also improved system efficiency by saving as much as 1GB of hard drive space. And, as SecureDoc installs transparently in the background without interrupting work in progress it also eliminated the user resistance administrators usually encounter when installing an additional layer of security. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |