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NEC
COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL AND ENSURE TECHNOLOGIES FORM STRATEGIC
ALLIANCE
NEC
Computers International to Resell Ensure's XyLoc Wireless
PC Security in Subsidiaries Throughout Europe
Ann
Arbor, Mich., October 3, 2001 – Ensure Technologies,
the award-winning leader in intelligent digital information
security solutions, and NEC Computers International, Europe's
sixth largest manufacturer of personal computers, today announced
a strategic alliance. Under the agreement, NEC Computers International
will resell Ensure Technologies' patented XyLoc wireless PC
security solution from all their subsidiaries throughout Europe.
Additionally, NEC will be including XyLoc as part of the sales
and marketing promotions for its notebook & desktop computers.
Ensure's XyLoc wireless computer security and personalization
solution protects against unauthorized access to computers
and notebooks, such as NEC's VERSA notebooks and POWERMATE
desktops.
"Ensure and NEC are a great pairing," said Ron Biesaart,
managing director, Ensure Technologies, Europe. "There
is growing concern throughout Europe on protecting information
resources on desktop and notebook computers. Our XyLoc wireless
security takes an innovative approach to protecting PC-based
information and also making the PC more convenient and personalized
for users. XyLoc's patented wireless technology can quickly
and easily identify who is accessing a NEC portable so it
can be more responsive to the user's needs while also protecting
the information it contains."
"We are pleased to include Ensure among our value-added
partners," said Jean Hatziraptis, Solutions, Software
& Partnerships Director, at NEC Computers International.
"As our customers tackle the challenges of implementing
computer security, we now can offer an exciting solution with
Ensure's XyLoc. XyLoc is simple but extremely powerful in
enabling the computer to identify and authenticate authorized
users in a way that is automatic and transparent."
Ensure helps organizations protect their digital information
by deploying wireless security solutions that are convenient
and easy to use for end users. XyLoc is a patented computer
security and personalization solution that prevents unauthorized
access to confidential company data, and simultaneously makes
access to network services and business applications more
convenient for authorized employees. XyLoc enables the computer
to know automatically and effortlessly who is requesting access
to its resources, delivering a level of personalization and
convenience previously unavailable in security solutions.
XyLoc's patented technology - full-time access control and
proximity authentication - transparently prevents unauthorized
access to confidential corporate data, while at the same time
making access to PC and network services and applications
more convenient for authorized users. XyLoc protects sensitive
data when it is most vulnerable: after logon, when the authorized
user steps away from the PC for any reason.
NEC VERSA notebooks have a long-standing reputation for being
groundbreaking products manufactured to stringent quality
standards. NEC Computers International offers a full range
of notebooks to satisfy the mobile computing needs of their
global customers. While offering different form factors to
meet the needs of every user profiles, they use the same set
of common accessories, which simplifies manageability.
NEC Computers International POWERMATE range of desktops is
the perfect choice answering all enterprise-wide needs: performance,
innovation, manageability and ease-of-use. The exclusive design
with four different form factors help tailor each workstation
to its specific environment and makes NEC desktop systems
the natural choice for the most successful companies. A leader
in integration, miniaturization and design, NEC was, with
its award winning Simplem, the first company to successfully
integrate a technologically advanced PC and screen into a
format as thin as a flat panel display.
XyLoc has received RSA SecureID® and Keon® Ready certification
from RSA Security, and Entrust-Ready™ Branding certification
from Entrust Technologies. Ensure is an associate member of
the Bluetooth™ Special Interest Group (SIG), a group
working toward a wireless technology specification that provides
links between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable
and handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. Future
versions of XyLoc will include support for 802.11b wireless
LAN infrastructures.
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