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ENSURE
TO DEMONSTRATE SECURITY BLUETOOTH™
APPLICATION AT COMDEX
Ensure's
XyLoc Bluetooth Wireless Security to Automatically
and Easily Secure IBM's ThinkPad Notebook Computer
COMDEX,
Las Vegas, NV, November 13, 2000 –
Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent
wireless PC security solutions, this week will collaborate
with IBM to demonstrate one of the first Bluetooth
applications at the Bluetooth Pavilion at COMDEX, Las
Vegas Convention Center, IBM Booth #BT-16 and Ensure
Booth #BT-23. The demonstration will show Ensure's XyLoc™
Bluetooth wireless security and authentication solution
securing and protecting access to an IBM ThinkPad® notebook
with a Bluetooth PC Card from IBM.
"Wireless
initiatives are a key trend in mobile computing today, and
we will be demonstrating some of the first real Bluetooth
applications at COMDEX this week," said Howard Dulany, wireless
program manager at IBM's Personal Systems Group. "We're proud
of the work we've done with Ensure to provide easy and convenient
security using the Bluetooth standard and look forward
to further enhancements as Bluetooth progresses."
"We
are thrilled to be teaming with IBM to show a real working
Bluetooth solution," said George Brostoff, president
of Ensure Technologies. "What is particularly significant
about this Bluetooth application is that it provides
very tangible and needed benefits to users - namely delivering
convenient security and personalization to mobile computing
devices like the ThinkPad."
IBM
is a promoter company and Ensure is an associate member of
the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (www.bluetooth.com),
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. The Bluetooth wireless technology
is a small form-factor, low-cost radio solution that is set
to revolutionize the personal connectivity market by providing
freedom from wired connections.
XyLoc
is a robust personalization and security application for Bluetooth
wireless devices like IBM's ThinkPad. As more Bluetooth
devices come to market, security will become essential to
protect them from unauthorized access. Using XyLoc's patented
technology, network managers can easily load and manage digital
certificates on any Bluetooth PC, phone or PDA, which
will add powerful security features to Bluetooth devices
and appliances. XyLoc will allow Bluetooth devices
to positively recognize and identify authorized users and
make Bluetooth phones and PDAs more convenient to 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. XyLoc
is proximity-activated and completely "hands-free," requiring
no user interaction. By automatically and effortlessly recognizing
who is requesting access to a PC, XyLoc simplifies PKI implementations
and protects digital certificates stored on PCs increasing
the security of e-commerce transactions.
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 associate member of the Bluetooth
SIG, Ensure's XyLoc wireless security technology 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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