Infineon Technologies and PGP Corporation announce collaboration to increase and enhance security options
(Business News, 29 Apr 2008 )
Infineon Technologies and PGP Corporation 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.
