(openPR) - Karlsruhe – Interest in the topics of IT security and intellectual property protection has clearly increased, as evidenced by the experience of Wibu-Systems AG, a leading German manufacturer of hardware based protection solutions for software, documents, access control and media. For the second year in a row, Wibu-Systems organized a workshop during CeBIT Asia with support from the trade fair producer. It was attended by more than 60 participants; a substantial increase over last year. This year the focus was IT security and the protection of software, documents, media as well as authentication.

Professor Yue Wu spoke about the diverse expertise of the Jiaotong University in Shanghai which is famous for its competence in the special subject of IT security. Mr. Jörg Heil, C.E.O. of Hartung Consult in Shanghai, reported about IT security in the SAP environment. Mr. Oliver Winzenried and Mr. Hailiang Li of Wibu-Systems took the opportunity to inform the participants of new security technologies and demonstrated its effectiveness by examining actual case studies involving the protection of digital content. The technical solutions they discussed are based on a USB device that uses high level encryption to increase the security of intellectual property. This solution not only brings license management features to software authors, it also brings a “personal security suite” to users. The suite includes security tools like password vaults and personal file encryption.

Oliver Winzenried, C.E.O. and founder of Wibu-Systems AG, was very pleased with the turnout. He observed, “The huge response for the workshop shows that the combination of our speakers’ valuable knowledge; coupled with our experience in protecting intellectual property provided the participants with a good general overview of IT security and introduced them to some very viable ways of securing digital content. In addition to CeBIT Asia, the PTC Asia and the CeMAT trade shows also took place during the same time frame. Exhibitors and participants from these two shows were also invited to attend the workshop and many did attend and found the information useful. The next scheduled event of this nature will occur in November of 2007, and will take place at the first Shanghai IT Day. Wibu-Systems will participate in this exciting event with six other European companies and the participants will be exposed to concentrated expert knowledge from lectures about IT solutions and security for German and international companies conducting business in China.“

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WIBU-SYSTEMS AG
Elke Spiegelhalter
Tel: +49-721-93172-11, Fax: +49-721-93172-22
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WIBU-SYSTEMS AG was founded in 1989 by Oliver Winzenried and Marcellus Buchheit. The main focus is in the fields of Digital Rights Management, software protection, license management, document protection and access control. The company located in Karlsruhe has distributors all over the world, offices in Seattle, USA, as well as in Shanghai, China, and sales offices in Great Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands.