2009年12月16日星期三

certgate GmbH - certgate to Present First BlackBerry Featuring Integrated Smart Card Protection

Certgate Smart Card microSD 1GBStore this angel in big sizePremiere at the GSMA Mobile World in Barcelona: certgate's Smart Card microSD, a hardware-based band-aid to assure acute data, is now accessible for BlackBerry devices.

Nuremberg/Barcelona, 10 February 2009: With its different accouterments token, certgate GmbH offers an ergonomic band-aid to enhance abstracts assurance on BlackBerry accessories acclimated in acute environments - a band-aid by far above to software-based ones. In 2007, the adolescent Nuremberg-based provider of IT aegis solutions had launched the aboriginal microSD agenda common featuring both, a cryptographic processor and the absolute functionality and aegis of a Smart Card. Now the agenda is aswell acceptable for use in the BlackBerry's anamnesis agenda slot, so it is no best all-important to affix to alien accessories for affidavit or encryption.

The Canadian-based architect of the BlackBerry, RIM, has been alms addition band-aid for email abstracts protection: A account accessory is accessible as accessory, enabling users to encrypt stored and/or beatific abstracts by agency of claimed certificates. According to IT aegis experts, this technology prevents acceptance to acute abstracts by crooked bodies and, provided a absolute centralized aegis action is in place, appropriately enables adaptable accessories to be acclimated in security-sensitive environments such as government authorities or high-tech enterprises. Still, the catechism is: Who wants to backpack about an added account accessory and a check-card-sized Smart Card in accession to their smartphones?

Then there are software-based encryption solutions, based on application the boot-up argumentation to abundance certificates and encryption abstracts on the device. The botheration with these solutions is that they are too accessible to be acclimated for business purposes.

"No admiration there is boundless skepticism in security-sensitive business fields if it comes to application adaptable devices," says Dr. Paschalis Papagrigoriou, CEO of certgate GmbH, "but our new hardware-based aegis solution, which now is aswell accessible for BlackBerry, closes antecedent assurance gaps. What's more, it is simple and adequate to use." Papagrigoriou goes on to explain the advantages of the new solution: "Since our certgate Smart Card microSD does not crave any alien readers or added devices, with codes generated anon on the cavity card, it is around absurd to spy them. Even if the accessory is absent or baseborn the abstracts is safe acknowledgment to able and able encryption."

With added than 11 actor users worldwide, the BlackBerry can be advised the a lot of accepted and broadly acclimated adaptable advice device. Without it, avant-garde business activity would be about unthinkable, in accurate for managers. However, if the French government in 2007 banned business-related use of the BlackBerry by government admiral due to aegis concerns, this reignited accessible agitation about the assurance of acute abstracts on adaptable devices. In Germany, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has been admonishing adjoin application the BlackBerry "in aegis acute areas of accessible administering and in businesses threatened by automated espionage". And above corporations like Audi or Total accept continued been prohibiting the use of BlackBerry accessories aural their IT functions due to aegis concerns.

The certgate Smart Card microSD is accessible not alone for BlackBerry: A adaptation for accessories active on Microsoft operating systems has been accustomed in the bazaar for absolutely some time, and is acclimated by acclaimed organizations in Germany and added countries to ensure safe abstracts communications with adaptable devices. The Cards are accessible with either 512 MB or 1 GB beam memory.

About certgate GmbH:
certgate GmbH is a Nuremberg-based high-tech action which was founded by Dr. Paschalis Papgrigoriou in 2004. The avant-garde aggregation specializes in developing and business articles and solutions which enhance the assurance and user-friendliness of adaptable advice devices. certgate has developed the aboriginal microSD agenda common featuring Smart Card functionality, and has acquired apparent aegis for its abstruse advance in the acreage of adaptable IT security.

Due to its able cryptographic function, the certgate microSD Smart Card permits the generation, accumulator and safe use of certificates and claimed assurance keys. Consequently, it aswell supports encrypted abstracts storage, safe adaptable cyberbanking according to HBCI and EBICS standards, and the ambience up of safe VPN access from adaptable devices. In abutting cooperation with accomplishing partners, certgate is aswell alive on customized aegis solutions for smartphones, PDAs and added adaptable devices, based on its certgate Smart Card micro SD. www.certgate.de

Press acquaintance certgate
certgate GmbH
Dr. Paschalis Papagrigoriou
Rollnerstraße 142
90408 Nürnberg

Tel.: +49.911.93 52 3-0
Fax: +49.911.93 52 3-52
press@certgate.biz

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certgate@faltmann-pr.de

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