Wave 35-001049-8 : Datasheet : Page 2

Wave Systems Corp.

480 Pleasant Street, Lee, MA 01238

(877) 228-WAVE • fax (413) 243-0045

www.wave.com

Wave “Juggler” and EMBASSY logo are registered trademarks of Wave Systems Corp.  All other brands are the property

of their respective owners.  Distributed by Wave Systems Corp.  Specications are subject to change without notice.

03-000282/version 1.05

Access Recovery and the Help Desk

Wave for BitLocker Management reduces the operational

costs associated with BitLocker by providing centralized

access recovery and role-based Help Desk functions.  Using

TPM-based access controls improves the security BitLocker

provides and in doing so binds the hard drive to a particular

PC.  Wave for BitLocker Management provides remote reset

and re-provisioning of TPM-based access credentials without

requiring the drive contents to be decrypted and subsequently

re-encrypted.  This facilitates a smooth migration of a drive

from one PC to another in the event of hardware failure and,

in addition, provides access recovery for users who have

forgotten their TPM PIN. 

The use of “roles” allows organizations the ability to dene

and delegate tasks within groups, while functioning across

the organization — o-loading non-IT specic tasks to

other individuals, such as help-desk personnel.  Wave for

BitLocker Management can be used to manage role denitions,

task denitions and role assignments.  Wave’s pre-dened

browser-based Help Desk role allows for:

Drive migration in the event of a  damaged PC motherboard

•

User access recovery in the case of lost or forgotten •

access credentials

Changing access rights when a PC is passed from one

•

employee to another

Periodically changing access credentials based on

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internal policy

Auditing and Reporting

Wave for BitLocker Management comes with a standard set

of activity reports that can be used to provide the status of

your enterprise-wide BitLocker installation.  In addition to

static reports, Wave for BitLocker Management also generates

detailed server logs of all BitLocker events on a per machine

basis.  These logs include a real-time view of when BitLocker

is initialized, locked and unlocked and when access passwords

and recovery keys are created or changed.  Wave for BitLocker

activity covery keys are created or changed.  Wave for BitLocker

activity covery k@M@activii o Mkre crM