by Rodolfo on February 24, 2010
Happy to report that Secure Computing Magazine has selected Cellcrypt for its SC Awards in the “Best Encryption Product” category.
Below the full press release:
London, UK – 24th February –Cellcrypt, (www.cellcrypt.com), the leading provider of secure mobile voice calling, has been voted by panel of industry experts representing both major European and global brands a finalist in the highly prestigious 2010 SC Awards for the Best Encryption Solution. The category aims to highlight encryption solutions that answer a specific market need or application, as well as providing a clear business advantage to enterprises or SME’s who invest in the product or service.
Now entering its third decade, the SC Awards Europe is without peer. The awards are universally recognised as the most coveted and prestigious for the European information security industry. The SC Awards honour professionals working to secure enterprises and the vendor and channel communities that deliver innovative security technologies.
Cellcrypt Mobile™ leads the industry in providing an easy-to-use multi-layered security solution for standard smartphones that allows high-performance encrypted voice calls between trusted wireless devices. Cellcrypt’s R&D innovation resulted in the creation of Encrypted Mobile Content Protocol (EMCP), an Internet Protocol (IP) based technology that optimises the delivery of encrypted data between mobile devices delivering unparalleled voice quality, low voice delays, global coverage and intercontinental calling capability.
“We are honoured that Cellcrypt has been selected as a finalist for Best Encryption Solution in the 2010 SC Awards and congratulate the other finalists,” said Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Cellcrypt. “In the light of recent disclosures in the press, this SC Magazine Awards nomination recognises the increasing industry awareness surrounding the risk of mobile voice interception as well as Cellcrypt’s leading ability to deliver comprehensive mobile voice security.”
Winner of this year’s SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in London on Tuesday 27th April.
by Rodolfo on February 22, 2010
Do not forget to sign up for Dr Larry Ponemon’s webcast on cell phone calls vulnerabilities with Cellcrypt and other leading industry experts.
Larry is best known for the annual reports on the Cost of Data Breach and he his now looking at the vulnerabilities in the cellular networks as well.
You can register for the event here, the webcast is on February 24th 2010 @ 1100EST.
by Rodolfo on February 17, 2010
Interesting article from IEEE Spectrum on steganography and VoIP.
Now steganography has entered a new era, with stupendously greater potential for mischief. With the latest techniques, the limitations on the length of the message have basically been removed. Consider our example involving the use of Skype. Whereas the first two examples each required a carrier—an MP3 song and a video—there was no such requirement for the transmission of that nude photo. The data were secreted among the bits of a digital Voice over Internet Protocol conversation. In this new era of steganography, the mule that coconspirators are using is not the carrier itself but the communication protocols that govern the carrier’s path through the Internet. Here’s the advantage: The longer the communicators talk, the longer the secret message (or more detailed the secret image) they can send. Most strikingly, the concealment occurs within data whose inherent ephemerality makes the hidden payload nearly impossible to detect, let alone thwart.
The article is quite long but certainly worth reading.
by Rodolfo on February 9, 2010
Going to Mobile World Congress? Stop by the BlackBerry booth to receive a free Cellcrypt wifi app for 90 days.
London, UK – 9th February 2010: In response to the recent concerns regarding mobile call security, Cellcrypt (www.cellcrypt.com) has today launched a Wi-Fi® version of its secure mobile voice calling application that is free to BlackBerry® smartphones users for 90 days.
Aimed at corporate and government employees, this offer provides a quick and easy ‘rapid response’ solution for senior executives who have become increasingly concerned about the risk of mobile voice call interception – especially when travelling abroad – following recent news of advances in mobile phone call hacking.
Here’s the full press release, or you can sign-up for the wifi client for 90 days.
by Rodolfo on February 5, 2010
ABI Research released the results of a new survey. The gist of it is that less than a fifth of companies use voice encryption solutions to protect their sensitive information [1].
The good news obviously is that around 18% do protect their financial, legal and R&D info. John Pescatore, security analyst at Gartner, perviously remarked “that 18% is a bit [to the] right, but in the ballpark” [2].
The survey, conducted amongst 250 senior executives in both medium and large organizations showed that despite regularly discussing financial information (78%), employee data (66%), as well as IP (51%) and commercial secrets (50%), the majority of these conversations are unprotected despite over 80% of respondents believing mobile phones to be as vulnerable, if not more so, than e-mail communications if leaked. Of those who admitted to regularly discussing sensitive information, 80% believed, if leaked, this information would have a major impact on the organisation.
Read the full press release.
[1] Disclaimer: the ABI Research survey was funded by Cellcrypt.
[2] Huge caveat: his remark is taken wildly out of context and he did not read the ABI report, so please read John’s original post in full on his blog before quoting him anywhere.
