Softex Announces SecureDrive Enabled by the 2010 Intel(R) Core(TM) vPro(TM) Technology for Fast and Easy Remote Management of Self-Encrypting Drives

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Softex Inc, the established market leader in Enterprise Single Sign On (ESSO) and Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions, announces SecureDrive, an addition to its security suite of products to take full advantage of the full disk encryption security features of OPAL drives and remote, out-of-band management features of the new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology.

Hard-drive vendors are now building self-encrypted drives (SEDs) to adhere to the OPAL standard defined by the Trusted Computing Group. OPAL hard drives eliminate data breaches as a result of stolen or lost PCs, by ensuring that every byte of data on the hard drive is encrypted using the hard drive's internal electronics.  

Softex's SecureDrive product allows for easy set up and configuration of the encryption and access rights and allows for multiple authentications mechanisms such as fingerprint, smart card, RFID cards and TPM passphrase. SecureDrive also allows administrators to remotely perform a secure erase of the data from the drive to simplify PC end of life processing.  Seamless integration with the new Intel vPro Technology Remote Encryption SDK allows for PC's (powered on or off) to be remotely unlocked by the I/T administrator to perform management tasks such as software installation and patch management.  

SecureDrive Client Edition manages encryption for standalone PCs, and SecureDrive Enterprise Edition allows centralized manageability including integration with the current OmniPass Management Console (MMC) and third-party management consoles supporting Intel vPro Technology.

"Softex is excited to collaborate with Intel and provide a seamless integration with its new Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology so enterprises can take full advantage of the remote and out-of-band management features to manage the self-encrypted OPAL drives," said Vishal Jhaveri, Vice President, Marketing, Softex Incorporated.

"PCs powered by the new Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology help businesses cut costs and increase efficiency by taking advantage of intelligent performance and unique hardware assisted security and manageability features," said Lisa Watts, director, Ecosystem Development, Intel Business Client Platform Division. "SecureDrive and its integration with the new Intel® Core™ vPro™ Technology will help enterprises simplify the deployment and enable remote management of the self-encrypted OPAL drives. These advanced features will make a PC more secure by preventing data leakage while keeping IT management costs down."

About Softex

Austin, TX-based Softex Inc was founded in 1992. The company is a leading provider of computer security products and services. Softex serves many of the top tier OEM companies, such as Fujitsu, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard, Motion Computing, IBM, and Samsung as well as hardware vendors such as APC, Synaptics, Ratoc and more. Softex has expanded its international position with the 2006 opening of its Mumbai, India facility.  For more information about Softex, visit www.softexinc.com.

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