When Out and About, Utimaco Shields British American Tobacco.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-20 November 2006-UTIMACO: When Out and About, Utimaco Shields British American Tobacco(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20112006 London, UK - British American Tobacco, the world's most international tobacco group, with brands sold in 180 markets around the world, has selected Utimaco's SafeGuard Easy to provide hard disk encryption to protect its mobile data.

In a strategic move, the initial contract is for 1,700 licences which will be extended, to a worldwide deployment, during 2007. "We recognise that the value of a lost laptop isn't restricted to the device, which can after all be insured," said Gareth Lindahl-Wise, Head of Global IT Security. "Far more valuable to the company is the data on the laptops themselves. As with many other...