NEUBIBERG, GERMANY, and PALO ALTO, CA (NYSE: IFX), a leading
provider of security semiconductors and enterprise security
software, and PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data
protection, today announced that they have begun collaboration
across a range of technical and business areas. The two companies
will initially provide a combined solution to allow Trusted
Platform Module provisioning and management in conjunction with
PGP� Whole Disk Encryption.
The PGP� Encryption Platform and Infineon's recently announced
Trusted Computing Management Server (TCMS) software are
complementary robust and mature security solutions. The combined
solution will enable enterprises to comprehensively manage their
data protection systems with Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs). TPMs
are security microcontrollers present in most enterprise-class PCs
deployed today. Until the advent of TCMS, these TPMs could not be
used effectively due to lack of centralized manageability.
PGP Whole Disk Encryption, one of the applications of the PGP
Encryption Platform, utilizes a PC's integrated TPM chip to add a
second authentication factor to a basic passphrase. Enterprise
customers can now leverage the TCMS infrastructure to centrally
provision, manage, and back up TPM-based keys as a first step to a
comprehensive deployment of desktop encryption. Together,
Infineon's and PGP Corporation's products meet the most critical
enterprise requirements of recovery, logging, provisioning, and
policy management.
Infineon is a leader in TPM integrated circuits worldwide and
has the largest installed base of TPMs currently deployed. In
addition, the Infineon Professional Package, which provides the
operating system-specific software components to support TPMs, is
pre-installed by numerous top-tier PC manufacturers throughout the
world. Infineon's TPM Professional Package V3.5 is
TPM-vendor-neutral, a core capability of the product. Infineon will
supply client software for Intel's version 1.2 TPMs.
"PGP Corporation is one of the strongest brands in the
enterprise data protection market, and we are very pleased to be
working together with PGP Corporation on future projects," said
Paolo Cocchiglia, Vice President, ASIC Design and Security (ADS)
business unit of Infineon Technologies North America.
The unique PGP Encryption Platform is the cornerstone of PGP
product offerings. The PGP Encryption Platform provides a single,
leveraged, extensible architecture that reduces IT operational
costs and eliminates the duplicative tasks, systems, training, and
support issues that plague other approaches. Unlike point solutions
that address a single threat or cobbled-together product suites
that lack integration, the PGP Encryption Platform delivers an
integrated encryption framework across the broadest range of
encryption applications.
"We are excited to be working with Infineon, a leading TPM
hardware and software vendor, to meet the challenges of managing
keys and security policies across the ever-increasing breadth of
security solutions being deployed," said Phil Dunkelberger,
President and CEO of PGP Corporation. "Besides offering our joint
customers a unique and powerful security solution, this
announcement validates the PGP Encryption Platform strategy by
demonstrating its extensibility across a broad range of data
protection technologies."
About Infineon
Infineon Technologies AG, Neubiberg, Germany, offers
semiconductor and system solutions addressing three central
challenges to modern society: energy efficiency, communications,
and security. In the 2007 fiscal year (ending September), the
company reported sales of Euro 7.7 billion (including Qimonda sales
of Euro 3.6 billion) with approximately 43,000 employees worldwide
(including approximately 13,500 Qimonda employees). With a global
presence, Infineon operates through its subsidiaries in the U.S.
from Milpitas, CA, in the Asia-Pacific region from Singapore, and
in Japan from Tokyo. Infineon is listed on the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol:
IFX).
About PGP Corporation PGP Corporation is a global leader in
email and data encryption software for enterprise data protection.
Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the
PGP� Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated
applications for enterprise data security. PGP� platform-enabled
applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand
as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops,
instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers,
automated processes, and backups.
PGP� solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises,
businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the
Fortune� 100, 75 percent of the Fortune� Global 100, 87 percent of
the German DAX index, and 51 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As
a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for
innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions
help protect confidential information, secure customer data,
achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies'
brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com.
Media and Analyst Contacts for PGP Corporation:
U.S.:
Tom Rice
Merritt Group
+1 703 856 2218
rice@merrittgrp.com
Germany:
Ingrid Daschner
Johnson King
+49 (0) 89 8940 8511
ingridd@johnsonking.de
Japan:
Kyosuke Wakairo
Powered Communications
+81 3 5211 7899
pgp@powered-communications.com
U.K.:
Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett
Johnson King
+44 (0) 20 7401 7968
pgpteam@johnsonking.co.uk
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are
forward-looking, including statements regarding the availability,
plans, delivery, goals, development, expected features, expected
benefits and competitive position of PGP products implementing or
leveraging the PGP technologies. All references made to product
feature enhancements, improvements in Platform support or
additional functionality are subject to change at PGP Corporation's
sole discretion. All future descriptions of PGP technology and
products are subject to availability only if PGP Corporation
decides to build them and when PGP Corporation decides to make them
commercially available. Actual results could differ materially from
those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and
uncertainties that PGP Corporation faces that could cause results
to differ materially include risks associated with any unforeseen
technical difficulties or software errors related to the final
development and launch of any of PGP Corporation's products; any
technological, regulatory, or standards changes in the security,
encryption and authentications market which could make PGP
Corporation's products less competitive or require feature changes
in these products; any slowdown in the adoption by businesses of
encryption suites, secure email, Internet technologies or related
standard. The forward-looking statements contained in this release
are made as of the date hereof, and PGP Corporation does not assume
any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual
results could differ materially from those projected in such
statements.
PGP and the PGP logo are registered trademarks of PGP
Corporation. Product and brand names used in the document may be
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Any
such trademarks or registered trademarks are the sole property of
their respective owners.
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