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WinMagic Awarded National Master Standing Offer By The Canadian Government

(Feb 28, 2008)-- WinMagicR Data Security, the innovative leader in endpoint security announced that it has been awarded a National Master Standing Offer (NMSO) by Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC). This award makes it simple for resellers to provide Canadian government departments and agencies with WinMagic's SecureDoc full-disk encryption to ensure all data on desktops, laptops, PDAs, and removable media such as USB drives, thumb drives, DVDs, and CDs is protected. Any Canadian government agency or department simply has to place an order to purchase SecureDoc at a guaranteed price.

"Elytra Enterprises is pleased to be the designated point of contact for federal departments interested in purchasing this 'made-in-Canada' advanced security solution," said Randy Sutton, President, Elytra Enterprises. "The NMSO award will simplify the purchasing process for federal departments which will certainly make it easier for resellers to sell SecureDoc to the Canadian Government," Sutton continued. "Elytra Enterprises looks forward to helping its government clients integrate SecureDoc into their enterprise
security environments."

The NMSO award confirms that SecureDoc has passed rigorous benchmark testing and value analysis to ensure compliance with the laws, regulations, and policies affecting public sector procurement in Canada.
Already included on the Government of Canada Communications Security Establishment's (CSE) and PWGSC's ITS Pre-qualified Product List (IPPL), under the IT Security Product Pre-qualification Program (IPPP), SecureDoc has been pre-qualified for use within the Government of Canada. Managing over 60,000 transactions and purchases annually at an estimated worth of over $10 billion in goods and services, PWGSC is Canada's largest public purchasing organization.

"Governments worldwide are leading the rapidly-growing commitment to data protection, and this award will make it simpler than ever for the Canadian Government to purchase, manage, and support all endpoint security initiatives," said Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Inc. "In essence, the NMSO award will ensure that the Canadian Government can easily procure our SecureDoc suite of products to execute a comprehensive data-at-rest protection strategy."

WinMagic provides the world's most secure full-disk encryption software represented by the SecureDoc product suite including: SecureDoc, SecureDoc Enterprise Server, SecureDoc Mobile, and SecureDoc Personal Edition. SecureDoc has been accredited by a number of national and international bodies and holds the following certifications: FIPS 140-1 Level 2, FIPS 140-2 Level 1 and Level 2, Common Criteria (Evaluation Assurance Level) EAL-4, and BITS.

Compatible with all editions of Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, and 2000, WinMagic's world-wide award winning products fulfill the requirements of even the most security conscious organizations in the world by focusing on
concrete policy driven security features, while still offering unparalleled flexibility. Utilizing Public Key Cryptographic Standard PKCS #11 (Cryptographic Token Interface Standard) from the ground up for extreme
adaptability, the SecureDoc Enterprise Server seamlessly works within an organization's environment to configure, deploy, and manage user/group profiles making it simple to interact with LDAP servers (including Active Directory) and providing such tools as password recovery methodologies, password rule configuration and pre-sets, encryption key labelling, and the dynamic provisioning of encryption keys from the same enterprise server.

Consistently delivering originality and advancement over the last 11 years, SecureDoc offers support for Trusted Platform Module - TPM v1.1 and v1.2 and the enterprise management of hardware-based encryption products including the Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE II drive. In doing so, SecureDoc makes it simple to manage multiple encryption schemas and their associated encryption keys.

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