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News Release from: VIA Technologies | Subject: StrongBox
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 November 2005
Enhanced release of VIA StrongBox
VIA StrongBox Builds In More Functionality and Language Support for Wider Data Security
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced an enhanced release of the VIA StrongBox application that boosts security functionality for protection against identity and data theft, and offers full language support for English, Simplified Chinese and German VIA StrongBox is a secure virtual drive application that utilises the unique VIA PadLock Security Engine in the new VIA C7 and VIA C7-M processors to enable real-time encryption of data using military-grade security algorithms
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 28 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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This update provides even greater flexibility by facilitating secure backup and PC-to-PC transfer through a new Load/Unload function, allowing users to store their secure drives away from their PC.
This is especially valuable for notebooks that are far more vulnerable to physical theft, with the user assured that they have a fully secure backup of their confidential information elsewhere.
This VIA StrongBox release now also implements full language support for English, Simplified Chinese and German.
"VIA StrongBox has been a flagship illustration of the type of protection possible when both hardware and software are utilised together to secure data," said Richard Brown, Vice President for Corporate Marketing, VIA Technologies "With this enhanced release of VIA StrongBox, we are not only extending the security offered by the VIA PadLock Security Engine, but making it more widely accessible with multi-language support." VIA StrongBox was recently put to the test at the Hack-in-the-Box Security Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where some of the world's best hackers tested their skills in a real life scenario, vying for a prize worth US$5000.
A secret document locked within a secure virtual drive on VIA C7-M processor based notebooks proved inaccessible throughout the conference, as VIA StrongBox successfully thwarted dozens of attempted hacks.
In the process, its levels of security garnered considerable acclaim by knowledgeable hackers, with numerous positive comments made about the hardware based security mechanisms used by VIA StrongBox, and the real-time protection offered through the power of the VIA PadLock Security Engine, which is integrated on-die into all VIA C7-M and VIA C7 processors.
More information about the Hack-in-the-Box event may be found on the VIA Arena website.
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