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Wave System, a provider of client and server software for hardware-based digital security, said Intel (News - Alert) vPro technology, along with its own EMBASSY software, enables enterprises to strengthen and simplify their existing wireless and virtual private network and establish a hardware-based “trust” model for access control and data-at rest.

 

Wave Systems announced that it would demonstrate the technology at the Intel Developer Forum, to be held San Francisco this week. The demonstration will illustrate how enterprises can reduce expenses relating to tokens, smart cards or complex authentication schemes by deploying PC platforms with Intel vPro technology in combination with Wave’s EMBASSY software.

 

Wave Systems offers solutions for critical enterprise PC security challenges, such as strong authentication, data protection, network access control and the management of these enterprise functions. 

 

Intel vPro platform comes with an integrated security capability called Trusted Platform Module (TPM). TPMs are included in millions of PCs and are standard equipment on many enterprise-class PCs. According to Wave Systems, TPM acts as a “tamper-resistant storage vault for user credentials.”

 

EMBASSY software on Intel vPro platform enables enterprises to improve wireless network and VPN security by strengthening access control at both local and network level, said the company. The built-in TPM protects digital certificates by securing user’s private cryptographic keys within the chipset hardware. According to Wave Systems, this functionality can be used in place of external tokens or smart cards and can improve the user access control process.

 

Brian Berger, Wave’s executive vice president of marketing and sales, said, “For enterprises using platforms with Intel vPro technology, Wave provides a simple-to-deploy solution for improving, and reducing the expense of, client management of their wireless and VPN security. This solution is scalable, regardless of the number of users managed.”

 

According to Tom Quillin, director of client ecosystem development at Intel, vPro technology offers native support for hardware-based access control using integrated TPM. Enterprises using software-based certificates can significantly strengthen access control for VPN or wireless security by deploying platforms with Intel vPro technology.

 

“As a result of hardware storage of certificates, enterprises can ensure that only trusted machines are allowed on their networks, no longer having to worry about users sharing or losing network authentication information,” Quillin said.

 

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