Wave Systems Corp. of Lee, MA has announced it is partnering with chip lifecycle management solutions company, Bell ID, to offer a joint solution aimed at reducing online payment fraud. The solution will be marketed primarily to card issuing banks, as well as online merchants, governments, and enterprises worldwide.

Wave Systems Corp. has partnered with Bell ID, a chip lifecycle management solutions company, to offer a joint solution aimed at reducing online payment fraud.

This solution will be marketed primarily to card issuing banks, as well as online merchants, governments, and enterprises worldwide.

Bell ID's Trusted Service Manager and Secure Element in The Cloud (SEiTC) server, in combination with Wave's ERAS for TPM management and Wave's endpoint identity and monitoring expertise, offers robust protection for transactions and stored payments.

Enterprises are finally embracing security systems based on trusted platform module (TPM) chips built into computing devices, but why has it taken so long?

Since 2006, many computing devices have included TPM chips, but enterprises have been slow to embrace the technology in their information security strategies.

In an era of hackers becoming more common and skillful, breakthroughs in security technology are essential. Wave Systems has brought the world the latest of these advancements, a virtual smart card that replaces traditional smart card technology.

Traditional authentication methods like passwords are vulnerable to data breaches as well as being difficult to remember and manage. But although tokens and physical smart cards provide better protection they're expensive to implement and maintain.

Security company Wave Systems Corp has a new virtual smart card solution that emulates the functionality of physical smart cards or tokens, but offers greater convenience to users, lower total cost of ownership, and a reduced risk of unauthorized use.

Recently, Intel released their latest Solid-State Drives (SSDs), the SSD Pro 2500 Series. This new release is targeted towards business users. It offers increased security, speed, and manageability at a reduced cost point.

As SSDs lack any moving parts, they are associated with increase data acquisition speeds and reduced downtime when compared to their hard disk drive cousins.

Intel has launched a new family of Solid State Drives (SSDs) aimed at the corporate and SMB user – the SSD Pro 2500.

The drives, available in both 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors, feature advanced security measures such as hardware-based 256-bit encryption.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 22, 2014 – Intel Corporation today announced an addition to the Intel® Solid-State Drive (SSD) Professional Family: the Intel® SSD Pro 2500 Series. This new business-class SSD delivers lower total cost of ownership, security and manageability features, and blazing-fast SSD performance demanded by today's business users.

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AT&T has not formally disclosed how many customers the company's latest data breach affected, but the attack appears to have exposed customer birth dates and Social Security numbers (SSNs).

SanDisk's new X300s SSD

To help companies keep their information safe, storage specialist SanDisk

Data encryption is critical to guarding sensitive corporate IP and can help healthcare, financial services and education organizations remain in compliance with industry regulations. For this reason, each X300s SSD comes exclusively equipped with Wave System's EMBASSY Security Center (ESC) as part of the upcoming SanDisk SSD Dashboard software suite. Wave's ESC is a local client application that manages the X300s by determining who can access the encrypted data via user and password set-up.

In an electronic age, mortgage closings stand out as particularly cumbersome transactions. Come closing day, hundreds of pages of paper land in a thump before the borrower, who must then physically sign and initial them in dozens of places.

In light of all the security breaches last year, companies are looking for ways to protect their own and their clients' data. Samsung claims that self-encrypting drives are the solutions to better security software protection. In a recent infographic, the company outlines a few reasons why self-encrypting drives are better for businesses.

The breach of cardholder data for 40 million Target customers that's been speculated to have been triggered by attacks against Target's point-of-sale (POS) systems has served as prime example for why security professionals have pushed for improved POS and payment application security in the last few years.