Hard Disk Encryption

UPEK, a supplier of enterprise and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, and WinMagic, a provider of in disk encryption, announced their Biometric Authentication Full-Disk Encryption Solution for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

The companies said the combination of the Eikon Fingerprint Reader and SecureDoc Express Disk Encryption makes protection of data via user authentication and data encryption simple to deploy and easy to use for SMBs.

The solution was demoed at the RSA Conference 2009 this week in San Francisco.

The Biometric Authentication Hard Disk Encryption Solution, the groups added, offers SMBs a solution that mitigates the risk of damaging data breaches and helps ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and at the same time makes the end user experience virtually seamless.

WinMagic's SecureDoc Express Disk Encryption allows SMBs to centrally deploy, enforce and manage government-grade AES 256 bit disk encryption so that data is automatically encrypted "on the fly" without user intervention. Central reporting and audit trails enable SMBs to demonstrate compliance with regulatory standards. By allowing end users to simply swipe their finger to authenticate, UPEK's Eikon fingerprint reader strengthens traditional password-based user authentication and lowers IT support desk costs associated with password resets.

"It's simply amazing, since WinMagic enabled SecureDoc to accept pre-boot authentication with UPEK's biometric solutions, I rarely have to use a password to either authenticate to my notebook or logon to the computer system," said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO and President of WinMagic Inc. "UPEK's capabilities have greatly assisted WinMagic in dramatically enhancing a positive customer experience when utilizing SecureDoc full-disk encryption," Nguyen- Huu continued. "Making the encryption of all data, including PII, transparent to the user was a main driver when WinMagic decided to configure a bundled offering to the SMB market."

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