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| WinMagic Awarded National Master Standing Offer by the Canadian Government WinMagic Data Security has been awarded a National Master Standing Offer (NMSO) by Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC). This award makes it simple for resellers to provide Canadian government departments and agencies with WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption to ensure all data on desktops, laptops, PDAs, and removable media such as USB drives, thumb drives, DVDs, and CDs is protected. Any Canadian government agency or department simply has to place an order to purchase SecureDoc at a guaranteed price. The NMSO award confirms that SecureDoc has passed rigorous benchmark testing and value analysis to ensure compliance with the laws, regulations, and policies affecting public sector procurement in Canada. Already included on the Government of Canada Communications Security Establishment's (CSE) and PWGSC's ITS Pre-qualified Product List (IPPL), under the IT Security Product Pre-qualification Program (IPPP), SecureDoc has been pre-qualified for use within the Government of Canada. Managing over 60,000 transactions and purchases annually at an estimated worth of over $10 billion in goods and services, PWGSC is Canada's largest public purchasing organization. WinMagic provides the world's most secure full-disk encryption software represented by the SecureDoc product suite including: SecureDoc, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, SecureDoc Mobile, and SecureDoc Personal Edition. SecureDoc has been accredited by a number of national and international bodies and holds the following certifications: FIPS 140-1 Level 2, FIPS 140-2 Level 1 and Level 2, Common Criteria (Evaluation Assurance Level) EAL-4, and BITS. Working at the pre-boot level, SecureDoc makes it simple to enable single or multiple factor authentication through passwords, USB tokens, smartcards, biometrics, TPM, and PKI technology. Compatible with all editions of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, and 2000, WinMagic's products fulfill the requirements of even the most security conscious organizations in the world by focusing on concrete policy driven security features, while still offering unparalleled flexibility. Utilizing Public Key Cryptographic Standard PKCS #11 (Cryptographic Token Interface Standard) from the ground up for extreme adaptability, the SecureDoc Enterprise Server seamlessly works within an organization's environment to configure, deploy, and manage user/group profiles making it simple to interact with LDAP servers (including Active Directory) and providing such tools as password recovery methodologies, password rule configuration and pre-sets, encryption key labeling, and the dynamic provisioning of encryption keys from the same enterprise server. Consistently delivering originality and advancement over the last 11 years, SecureDoc offers support for Trusted Platform Module - TPM v1.1 and v1.2 and the enterprise management of hardware-based encryption products including the Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE II drive. In doing so, SecureDoc makes it simple to manage multiple encryption schemas and their associated encryption keys. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |