Wave Systems and ICT to Showcase Trusted Computing Solutions at Dell Business Club Events Across Germany
IT Security Events to Include Presentations and Demos from Wave and ICT: Demonstrating Trusted Computing, Advanced Encryption, Data Protection, Authentication and More
Lee, MA– September 18, 2006 – Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX www.wave.com) announced that it will be participating in the Dell Roadshow, called “Dell Business Club,” taking place at eight locations across Germany in September and October, to present and demonstrate trusted computing solutions. Dell currently includes Wave Systems' EMBASSY ® Trust Suite for Dell software shipping on all Dell Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision mobile workstations containing the Trusted Platform Module security chip.
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a unique standards-based hardware security chip that handles various advanced security tasks on a computer. When combined with Wave Systems EMBASSY Trust Suite software, the TPM performs a variety of business security features, such as security policy management, data protection, password management and strong pre-boot authentication. The benefits of these applications for reducing network security problems include mitigating password, data and personal information theft, application security, strong wireless authentication, secure email and more – all while increasing productivity.
“It has never been easier to enable security in a customer's enterprise with standard based solutions from Dell. No matter if its servers, notebooks or desktop systems and even workstations, all are equipped with proven TCG technology. This, combined with Wave Systems' administrator-friendly security suite, keeps customers ahead of security needs,” said Christoph Kaub, Latitude Product Marketing Manager, Dell.
Dell Business Club is a nation-wide tour of Germany where Dell and select partners will meet with more than 3000 IT managers among Dell's best enterprise customers in Germany. The tour opened on September 8, 2006 in Frankfurt, Germany. The key topics of the Dell Business Club this year will be IT Security and Enterprise Manageability.
“Wave Systems is happy to collaborate with Dell in bringing its security expertise to this Roadshow in Germany,” said Bruno LeConte, Vice President, EMEA, for Wave Systems. “In addition to presentations on the latest IT security infrastructure and Dell mobile security, we look forward to this opportunity to demonstrate the EMBASSY Trust Suite for Dell and showcase how hardware security and software built right into Dell's professional PCs can be leveraged as a new foundation for a more secure computing architecture.”
"We are very excited to see Dell and Wave Systems offering second-to-none infosecurity solutions to enterprise customers in Germany and Austria. By leveraging the power of hardware-based security and the latest industry standards, Dell and Wave provide an advanced new architecture for security that we see as most beneficial to customers," said Alexander W. Koehler, CEO ICT Economic Impact. “We are happy to bring the strongest new developments in security to our customers as their trusted computing partner for consulting and implementation support in Germany and Austria.”
Wave Systems also offers a more fully featured version of Wave's EMBASSY software, EMBASSY Trust Suite for Dell (ETS) 2.1, as well as EMBASSY Authentication Server (EAS) and EMBASSY Key Transfer Manager Server (EKMS), available as an upgrade purchase option through Dell and direct from Wave (www.wave.com). |
