LEE, MA--(Marketwire - Oct 26, 2011) - Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ: [ WAVX ]), a leading provider of trusted computing software, announced today that Steven K. Sprague, CEO, and Gerard T. Feeney, CFO, will present at Needham & Company's Fifth Annual HDD & Memory Conference in Boston on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at The Langham Hotel at 250 Franklin Street. Wave's presentation/webcast is at 10:05 a.m. ET in the Chase Room. Management will also be available to meet with investors in individual meetings that day.

Live Webcast & Replay: available here: [ http://www.wave.com/news/webcasts.asp ]

Wave offers central management for self-encrypting drives (SEDs), where encryption is built into the hard drive itself for more robust security and minimal impact on performance as compared with software FDE. Wave was the first to support Seagate's DriveTrust encrypted hard drives, and today supports SEDs built on the TCG Opal specification from Toshiba, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung and Micron.

About Wave Systems Corp. ([ www.wave.com ]):
Wave Systems Corp. reduces the complexity, cost and uncertainty of data protection by starting inside the device. Unlike other vendors who try to secure information by adding layers of software for security, Wave leverages the security capabilities built directly into endpoint computing platforms themselves. Wave has been a foremost expert on this growing trend, leading the way with first-to-market solutions and helping shape standards through its work as a board member for the [ Trusted Computing Group ].