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ENSURE
TECHNOLOGIES' PATENT ISSUED FOR XYLOC WIRELESS PC SECURITY
Patent
Number 6,070,240 Issued for XyLoc's Full-Time Access Control
and Proximity-Based Authentication
Ann
Arbor, Mich., July 11, 2000 -- Ensure Technologies, the
award-winning leader in intelligent PC security solutions,
today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark
Office has issued patent number #6,070,240 for its wireless
security technology used in its XyLoc wireless PC security
system. Differentiating features and benefits of the product
covered by the patent include:
- Proximity-Based
Authentication: using radio frequency (RF) or infrared
transceivers to automatically detect the presence or absence
of authorized users to grant or deny access to computer
systems; and
- Full-Time
Access Control: using RF or infrared transceivers
to constantly monitor for the continued presence of authorized
users.
"It's
great to be issued the patent number for the differentiating
strengths of XyLoc," said Dr. Thomas Xydis, chief technologist
of Ensure. "This patent underscores the reception and excitement
that XyLoc has received in the industry. XyLoc's advantages
of convenience and personalization offers organizations a
PC security solution that gives users clear benefits and dramatically
increases compliance with security policies."
Xydis
is the holder of numerous patents (U.S. and foreign) in a
variety of areas including 13 U.S. patents in the past five
years in the field of wireless technology. Ensure has several
other patents pending.
XyLoc
is a centrally managed automatic computer security 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's unique, full-time access control technology protects
confidential data when it is most vulnerable - after logon,
when the authorized user - for whatever reason - steps away
from the PC. Additionally, XyLoc simplifies implementation
of public key infrastructure (PKI) by securing access to digital
certificates and ensuring that they are protected from unauthorized
use.
XyLoc
is a patented, centrally managed, automatic computer security
solution that prevents unauthorized access to confidential
PC-based information, and simultaneously makes access to network
services and applications more convenient for authorized employees.
XyLoc's full-time access control technology protects sensitive
data when it is most vulnerable - after logon, when the authorized
user - for whatever reason - steps away from the PC.
Suited
for professionals who need easy, yet secure, access to information
"on the fly," XyLoc is proximity-activated and completely
"hands-free," requiring no user interaction. Because it enables
the computer to know automatically and effortlessly who is
requesting access to its resources, XyLoc offers security
features and flexibility previously unavailable. Additionally,
XyLoc easily integrates with and enhances the effectiveness
of other security technologies, like biometrics or tokens.
Other benefits include:
- Convenience
- an authorized user approaching the PC is automatically
logged on to all appropriate services.
-
Total Security
- the best and only way to actually guarantee that the person
using the computer is, and continues to be at all times,
the authorized user.
- Robust
Management Tools - event logs and audit trails are
provided automatically, detailing a history of PC usage
for effective security monitoring.
About
Ensure Technologies
Headquartered
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com)
is the leader in intelligent security solutions designed to
protect an organization's intellectual property and physical
computing assets from internal security breaches - conveniently,
automatically and transparently. Ensure's award-winning XyLoc
applies the innovative, patented technologies of full-time
access control and proximity-based authentication to guard
corporate data, and asset tracking to monitor and protect
computing hardware throughout the enterprise from desktops
to mobile PCs. As an active member of the Bluetooth
SIG, XyLoc wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth
wireless devices to positively recognize and identify authorized
users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more
convenient to use.
BLUETOOTH
is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson,
Sweden and licensed to Ensure Technologies
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