Home Safe Home: Quick tips to keep your data secure during the COVID-19 outbreak.

With many businesses adopting, or at least temporarily accepting a work-from-home model as a response to COVID-19, cybersecurity experts around the world are raising the alarm on the increased threat of data breaches. Here are 7 tips to help your…

Mar 19, 2020

Aaron McIntosh

Data Security and the Distributed Workforce

With many businesses adopting, or at least temporarily accepting a work-from-home model as a response to recent global events, cybersecurity experts around the world are raising the alarm on the increased threat of data breaches. On March 06, 2020, the…

Mar 13, 2020

Aaron McIntosh

Protecting your Corporate Assets with Cryptographic Keys: An Interview with our VP of Technology, Garry McCracken

Our Vice President of Technology, Garry McCracken was recently invited to participate in an interview by Ravi Das, CyberSecurity Consultant and host of BiometricNews.net, a podcast for security news and information. The podcast offers a glimpse into Garry’s career journey,…

Jan 30, 2020

Aaron McIntosh

Connecting to Customers through Feedback

We here at WinMagic take customer feedback seriously. From Product Development and Management, to Sales and Marketing, to Billing and Support, we’re always striving to do what’s right for our customers. On our Support team, we’ve recently revamped our customer…

Jan 21, 2020

Aaron McIntosh

FDE and the Opportunistic vs Dedicated Adversary (Do a Risk Assessment)

I have always been a proponent of doing a security risk assessment in order to determine the amount and depth of controls required to protect information appropriately. Risk is a function of the probability and the impact of a successful…

Nov 25, 2019

Garry McCracken

WinMagic – our vision for better data security in a complex world.

It has been over 21 years since I founded WinMagic and started working on SecureDoc, a simple but sophisticated full disk encryption product. Over the years I have learned a lot and developed insights and opinions regarding the state of…

Aug 19, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

When and where should sensitive data be encrypted? The revealing answers might surprise you!

After having run WinMagic with the main focus as a data encryption company for more than 20 years, I asked our team for the first time last week the very basic question: When – and where – should sensitive data…

Jun 27, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

YOUR LINUX-BASED LAPTOPS, DESKTOPS AND SERVERS: DO YOU NEED TO ENCRYPT THEM TO COMPLY WITH GDPR?

On April 24, 2018 Patrick Townsend, CEO and founder of Townsend Security published a blog considering the relevance of encryption to GDPR compliance. A year later, we agree that Mr. Townsend’s blog remains a relevant starting point for enterprises on-the-fence…

May 28, 2019

WinMagic

Great Product Development Begins with a Solid Foundation of Corporate Excellence

Enterprises are increasingly concerned about data security and data protection. They need to have access to the rights tools to ensure that users and systems administrators are able to properly protect and secure company and customer data. As a member…

Apr 3, 2019

Zia Babar

“Extracting BitLocker keys from a TPM”

(Pre-Boot Authentication: Wisdom in Security – Part 3) In my September 2018 blog “Pre-Boot Authentication. Wisdom in Security Part 2” I concluded that: “Bottom Line: ‘No PBA’ is not a wise choice for enterprises Microsoft’s reasoning that you don’t need…

Mar 18, 2019

Thi Nguyen-Huu

Five Observations from RSAC 2019

Last week I had the privilege of attending the 2019 RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. As in past years, the keynotes, technical sessions and sidebar conversations were a great opportunity to learn what is top-of-mind in the security industry. …

Mar 15, 2019

WinMagic

Working Hand-in-Hand with Microsoft Provides Customers Confidence in SecureDoc Windows 10 Compatibility

Customer confidence in your solution is critical to success. That’s why WinMagic works diligently to ensure that our solutions support the environments that our customers use. And for most of them, that’s Microsoft Windows. For years, WinMagic has participated in…

Feb 22, 2019

Aaron McIntosh

Home Safe Home: Quick tips to keep your data secure during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Data Security and the Distributed Workforce

Protecting your Corporate Assets with Cryptographic Keys: An Interview with our VP of Technology, Garry McCracken

Connecting to Customers through Feedback

FDE and the Opportunistic vs Dedicated Adversary (Do a Risk Assessment)

When and where should sensitive data be encrypted? The revealing answers might surprise you!

“Extracting BitLocker keys from a TPM”

Working Hand-in-Hand with Microsoft Provides Customers Confidence in SecureDoc Windows 10 Compatibility

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