Corporate Info // News and Events
October 27 - 29, 2008 - RSA Europe at Excel London, United Kingdom
July 24 - 25, 2008 - SANS Fire 2008 at Wardman Park Marriott Hotel, Washington D.C.
January 5, 2007 - HARTE-HANKS ABERDEEN GROUP: BEST IN CLASS COMPANIES ARE LEVERAGING ENDPOINT DATA PROTECTION TO CONTROL SENSITIVE DATA LOSS, MISUSE, AND ABUSE
Study results reveal that while most organizations realize that unprotected enpoints represent a significant risk to the network, tha majority have limited or no visibility to assess the compliance of end users to endpoint and data privacy policies.
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November 22, 2006 - Establishing Unprecedented Benchmarks for Full Disk Encryption
WinMagic has developed a benchmarking and scoring tool to increase the industry's understanding to requisite testing procedures for robustness in selecting a full disk encryption solution that addresses "data at rest" issues without compromising usability.
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August
14, 2006 - SecureDoc Receives FIPS 140-2 Level 1 & Level 2 Validations
Certificate # 698 & 699
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Aug 7, 2006 - Protecting your data
What can normal users do to protect their data?
James Derk, Financial Security
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Aug 2, 2006 - How to avoid laptop lapses
Your notebook's lost or stolen. Now what?
Philip Quinn, Financial Post
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Aug
2, 2006 - MySecureDoc Personal Edition Plus
Security is an important issue when you have sensitive data.
However, you can put your mind at ease with MySecureDoc Personal Edition Plus.
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May
25, 2006 - VA data theft may cost $500 million
The head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs faced angry
lawmakers on Thursday and described how the theft of a device the size of an
iPod containing personal data on 26.5 million veterans may cost taxpayers as
much as $500 million.
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May 13, 2006 - Lost, stolen laptops bring security risks
With businesses relying more on laptops and mobile technology,
more and more sensitive information is leaving the office, often unprotected.
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March 27, 2006 - Lundquist's Guide To Not Getting Fired for Losing Your
Laptop
Keeping your sensitive data off your laptop can help you keep
your job. Following these rules and guidelines to avoid becoming another in the
long line of recent data theft victims.
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March 1, 2006 - Full-disk Encryption - Biometric Watch
SecureDoc 4.1 is WinMagic’s latest version of their full-disk
encryption solution. The product encrypts data during a computer’s preboot and
accepts security authentication from passwords, hardware tokens, biometrics and
public key infrastructure.
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February
7, 2006 - Disk encryption and HSPD-12
This is probably just one GCN editor’s interpretation, but Thi
Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security in Mississauga, Ontario, sounds a bit
like the Rodney Dangerfield of security technology.
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February 6, 2006 - Dispatches from Redmond
At a conference for public-sector CIOs in Redmond, Wash., last
month, Kristin Johnsen, Microsoft’s senior director for security outreach,
briefed editors on a slew of promising technologies for protecting systems and
networks.
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January 10, 2006 - Canadian company tapped by State Department to be part
of secure authentication and access control
WinMagic is working on the Homeland Security Presidential
Directive, HSPD-12, published by the White House in August 2004. It requires
that the smart card technology, containing digital identity in the form of a PKI
certificate, be used to gain access to all government buildings and IT networks.
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December 8, 2005 - WINMAGIC INTRODUCES LATEST VERSION OF ITS FULL-DISK
ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE
SecureDoc 4.1 offers faster encryption/decryption, support for
growing list of tokens and smart cards
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November 22, 2005 - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Full-Disk Encryption
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November
21,
2005 - Biometric Media Weekly
WinMagic Begins Work On State Department Pilot
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November 17, 2005
- MissionCritical Communications
WinMagic Works on Federal PIV Pilot
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October 24, 2005 - Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal
Full-Disk Encryption
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October 24, 2005 - SecureDoc & SES Version 4.1 has been released!
View
the new features available in SecureDoc version 4.1 >>
View the
new features available in SecureDoc Enterprise Server version 4.1 >>
October 10, 2005 - Data Protection
Today’s businesses risk huge financial and legal repercussions if they do not
protect internal, partner and customer data.
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August 15, 2005 - Business Week - Unprotected Laptops: A Substantial Financial
and Legal Risk
Today’s businesses risk huge financial and legal repercussions if they do
not protect internal, partner and customer data.
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July 20, 2005 - SecureDoc & SES Version 4.0 has been released!
View
the new features available in SecureDoc version 4.0 >>
View the
new features available in SecureDoc Enterprise Server version 4.0
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July 5, 2005 -
WinMagic Inc. to be featured on Alexander Haig's World Business Review TV
Series
Multi-Media Productions (USA), Inc. announces that WinMagic Inc. will appear on
World Business Review, hosted by General Alexander Haig.
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July 2005 -
WinMagic Opens Office in Europe
WinMagic announced that in response to feedback from its European partners on
the fast-expanding demand for its SecureDoc full disk encryption solution, it
has opened its first European offices.
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June 13, 2005 - Mobile
computing risks are rising
eWeek reviews SecureDoc and explains the challenges IT administrators are faced
with.
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June 2005 -
SecureDoc Disk Encryption Features in eSecurity Magazine
eWeek reviews SecureDoc and explains the challenges IT administrators are faced
with.
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May 2, 2005 - PC-Professionell - Comparison Test - May 2005 (in German)
The German Magazine PC-Professionell has reviewed SecureDoc in its disk
encryption product comparison. Time and time again, and also in this test,
SecureDoc turns out to be one of the most reliable, feature-rich, secure and
versatile full disk encryption solutions worldwide. In this particular test,
which was very thorough and objective, we feel that some important disk
encryption product features have been overlooked.
In the article, it is stated that SecureDoc, which stores keys in a key file, is
not as secure as other products that save keys in inaccessible, hidden
locations.
- Although it is true that SecureDoc key files can be seen or accessed, this
is not a security flaw at all. In fact, if we use the widely-used and
widely-scrutinized encryption of email as a model, it is clear that SecureDoc
follows the same basic principles. Standard email products such as Microsoft
Outlook use files to contain the user's private key file, and open
cryptographic standards such as PKCS #12 to help protect these key files even
though they can be accessed. We do not consider a key file to be “sensitive
material” because its protection is based on cryptography.
- Anyone with Administration rights on the client machine can see the key
file. A regular user would not be able to see or access SecureDoc key files.
- For the protection of a user’s data, WinMagic has designed SecureDoc so
that even WinMagic, the manufacturer, cannot access users' computers. Knowing
all the obscure space where key files are stored would not help WinMagic
attack its SecureDoc product – cryptography helps make encryption products
secure based on security, not on obscurity.
The weakest link in this security design is the user’s password. In addition
to including the ability to require users to create strong passwords, SecureDoc
offers a unique integration to the high level of security offered by smart
cards, USB cryptographic tokens and PKI.
SecureDoc has been designed since the beginning based on open standards, where
they have been available. Its network product, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, also
conforms to this ideal, using a standard ODBC-based SQL server. WinMagic is of
the opinion that using a standard database is better than proprietary databases
or even flat files, which are used by other products. Comparing it unfavorably
to products that use proprietary designs implies that such designs are
desirable, which we strongly feel is not true.
The article raised issues of performance, a SecureDoc quality that is often
highly praised by customers. SecureDoc has two encryption modes: one is more
thorough than another, but it runs more slowly. In this test, it may have been
possible that SecureDoc was tested using this more thorough mode while
competitive products may have been tested with less thorough modes. Also,
SecureDoc’s ability to allow interruption of the initial encryption does have
some impact on encryption performance: do the other products offer such a
feature? And the performance on the day to day operations, we suspect, may have
been affected by using file encryption on top of disk encryption.
Two more minor points. Integration with third party token manufacturers is a
major feature of SecureDoc: perhaps this review should have involved using
tokens, which are becoming widely used. And although the stand-alone SecureDoc
offers self-help challenge-response password reset only, the enterprise version
does have a complete one-time challenge/response feature.
We hope these comments will be taken in the spirit they are intended.
WinMagic Inc.
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April 12, 2005 - SecureDoc Version 3.91 & SecureDoc Enterprise Server Version
2.91 have been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.91
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View the new features available in SecureDoc Enterprise Server version 2.91
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April 1, 2005 -
Notebook Computers; Preventing Unauthorized Access to Government Data
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February 14-18, 2005
- WinMagic was both proud and thrilled to be part of the most prestigious and
reputable Information Security event in North America, the RSA Conference 2005
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February 14, 2005 - SecureDoc Version 3.9 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.9
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January 24, 2005 -
Disk lockdown
Two disk encryption products provide last line of defense | By Maggie Biggs
Published on Jan. 24, 2005 - FCW
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SecureDoc Version 3.8 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.8
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SecureDoc Version 3.7 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.7
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SecureDoc
is ready for Windows XP SP2!
Recently, Microsoft has launched the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) for Service Pack
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Straight talk about data security
SecureDoc Helps Out - California Senate Bill 1386, effective since July 1, 2003,
forces financial companies to inform customers when their personal data has been
lost . . .
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July 22, 2004 -
Encryption before booting
The most glaring holes in many security systems ride around the world in
executive briefcases . . .
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WinMagic on Euro
partner prowl
CANADA-based WinMagic reckons the European disk encryption software space is
ready to explode and is looking for channel partners to provide a route into the
market . . .
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WinMagic Receives Award for Best Security Product of the Year.
And for our Reader's Choice Award for Best Security Products from Windows & .NET
Magazine, Encryption/Digital Signing Software category.
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SecureDoc looks innocent and basic in its DVD-sized packaging containing a
CD...
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SecureDoc Version 3.6 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.6
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SecureDoc Version 3.5 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.5
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SecureDoc Version 3.4 has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.4
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SecureDoc Version 3.4 Beta has been released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.4 Beta
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Personal Information
and Electronic Documents Act
Companies are now required by law to protect customers information
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SecureDoc
Version 3.32 Has Been Released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.32
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SecureDoc Version 3.31b Has Been Released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.31b
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SecureDoc Version 3.31 Has Been Released!
View the new features available in SecureDoc version 3.31
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Personal SecureDoc is a disk encryption product that codes the
entire hard disk, including operating system files and boot sector
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SecureDoc Version 3 now
available on GSA for US Government purchase!
SecureDoc disk encryption products are now available under GSA.
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More Tokens are Now Supported by SecureDoc
View a list of token that are now supported by SecureDoc
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Keeping Secrets
This new version of SecureDoc encrypts all the files on a hard disk, thus
preventing the risk associated with temporary files, swap files and backup
copies - even files which have been deleted in the ordinary way cannot be
recovered by someone using a low-level disk utility. . . .
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