PGP Whole Disk Encryption customers found themselves locked out of their computers when they tried to apply the latest Mac OS X security update. – A massive security update from Apple plugged more than 130 Mac OS X security
holes but left users of PGP’s whole disk encryption product locked out of their
systems.
Wednesday, customers of PGP, now a division at Symantec, reported being
unable to boot their computers after upgrading to Mac OS …
Symantec unveiled some of its plans for the encryption technology it acquired by buying PGP and GuardianEdge, as well as how the VeriSign acquisition could fit in. – Not long ago, Symantec was going the OEM route for encryption. That
all changed in June when the company announced it had closed on
the PGP and GuardianEdge acquisitions.
This past week, Symantec detailed more of its plans for the technologies,
unveiling a strategy that stretches from whole-d…
Symantec today introduced PGP Whole Disk Encryption with support for Intel Anti-Theft Technology, helping businesses to protect their laptops and, more costly, their data. Losing the latter takes roughly a $6.75 million bite per case out of U.S. enterprises and $3.4 million out of companies elsewhere in the world, according to the Ponemon Institute.
Symantec announced plans today to buy GuardianEdge Technologies and PGP so it can target the burgeoning encryption market.
– Symantec announced plans to acquire encryption specialists PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies.
Under the terms of the agreements, Symantec will buy PGP for $300 million and GuardianEdge for $70 million. The plans represent something of a reversal for the company, which had previously declined to buy…
PGP agrees to acquire TC TrustCenter and its parent company, ChosenSecurity, for their on-demand platform for managing trusted identities.
– PGP has agreed to acquire German security vendor TC TrustCenter and its
U.S.
parent company, ChosenSecurity, for an undisclosed sum
of money.
ChosenSecurity
and TC TrustCenter provide an on-demand platform for managing trusted
identities for encryption, authentication and secure collaborati…
