PGP Corporation and Intel Announce Collaboration to Provide Comprehensive Protection...

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Mon Apr 20, 2009 8:01am EDT

PGP Corporation and Intel Announce Collaboration to Provide Comprehensive
Protection for Notebooks

 

Collaboration will Provide Support for Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader
in enterprise data protection, today announced an agreement with Intel
Corporation to support Intel(R) Anti-Theft Technology (Intel(R) AT-p).  PGP
will integrate Intel Anti-Theft Technology into the award-winning PGP(R) Whole
Disk Encryption solutions for combined asset and data protection as well as
help with notebook theft deterrence for organizations worldwide.  Intel
Anti-Theft Technology, available in many of the latest notebooks with Intel(R)
Centrino(R) 2 with Intel(R) vPro technology, is a hardware-based asset
protection and theft deterrence solution that protects the notebook through
disable options via a "poison pill" when theft or loss is determined by local
detection mechanisms or a remote server notification.  The combined solution
will offer large enterprise and SMB customers options to block access to
private, sensitive data that is secured by PGP(R) data encryption solutions.

"Time after time, we've seen that data breaches due to lost or stolen
notebooks can have a detrimental impact to a public or private organization -
protecting data and personal information has never been more critical," said
Steven Schoenfeld, vice president Products and Strategy, PGP Corporation. "We
are pleased to continue to expand our relationship with Intel; this
collaboration underscores our commitment to developing and providing the most
comprehensive and leading edge data protection solutions for organizations
worldwide."

"The collaboration with PGP Corporation on asset and data protection solutions
helps to define a new security paradigm for organizations of all sizes to help
deter theft of costly hardware and protect the often more valuable data
inside," said George Thangadurai, director, Strategic Planning, and general
manager, Anti-Theft Program, Intel Mobile Platforms Group.

According to the recently released 2008 Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Studies,
compromised customer records in the U.S. costs a company $202 per record, in
the U.K. the cost of lost customer data is pounds Sterling 60 per record and
in Germany it is euro 112 per lost customer information.  Without proper asset
and data protection practices, these breaches can cause significant damage to
a company's brand and bottom line.  

PGP Corporation will integrate with the local and remote theft detection
mechanisms provided by Intel Anti-Theft Technology, and provide recovery
options. When an Intel Anti-Theft Technology enabled notebook is lost or
stolen and the theft condition is asserted, the combined Intel and PGP
solution will disable the notebook and block access to encrypted data even if
the user's credentials have been compromised.  Once the notebook has been
recovered and the theft condition is cleared, the hardware can easily be
re-activated locally using a pre-provisioned user pass-phrase or a remote
server-assisted one-time use recovery token.  Since the data on the recovered
notebook is not deleted and the protection is non-destructive, the data can be
securely retrieved upon routine pre-boot authentication.

About PGP Corporation 
PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for
enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy
infrastructure, the PGP(R) Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of
integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP(R) platform-enabled
applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security
requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging,
smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and
backups.

PGP(R) solutions are used by more than 100,000 enterprises, businesses, and
governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune(R) 100, 75 percent
of the Fortune(R) Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX index, and 51
percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a
global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP
solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve
regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies' brands and
reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com.

About Intel Corporation
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops
technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work
and live. Additional information about Intel is available at
www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

Media & Analyst Contacts for PGP Corporation: 

    North America
    Christina Grenier
    PGP Corporation
    +1 650 543 3697
    cgrenier@pgp.com

    Tom Rice
    Merritt Group
    +1 703 856 2218
    rice@merrittgrp.com

    United Kingdom
    Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett
    Johnson King
    +44 (0) 20 7401 7968
    pgpteam@johnsonking.co.uk

    Germany
    Ingrid Daschner
    Johnson King
    +49 (0) 89 8940 8511
    ingridd@johnsonking.de



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statements regarding the availability, plans, delivery, goals, development,
expected features, expected benefits and competitive position of PGP products
implementing or leveraging the PGP technologies. All references made to
product feature enhancements, improvements in Platform support or additional
functionality are subject to change at PGP Corporation's sole discretion. All
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Corporation's products; any technological, regulatory, or standards changes in
the security, encryption and authentications market which could make PGP
Corporation's products less competitive or require feature changes in these
products; any slowdown in the adoption by businesses of encryption suites,
secure email, Internet technologies or related standard. The forward-looking
statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and PGP
Corporation does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the
reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in
such statements.

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SOURCE  PGP Corporation

North America, Christina Grenier of PGP Corporation, +1-650-543-3697,
cgrenier@pgp.com; or Tom Rice of Merritt Group, +1-703-856-2218,
rice@merrittgrp.com; or United Kingdom, Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett,
both of Johnson King, +44 (0) 20 7401 7968, pgpteam@johnsonking.co.uk; or
Germany, Ingrid Daschner of Johnson King, +49 (0) 89 8940 8511,
ingridd@johnsonking.de
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