Blueice Research Hires Chief Architect from Sonera SmartTrust.Business Editors & High Tech Writers STOCKHOLM Stockholm (stŏk`hôlm'), city (1995 pop. 692,954), capital of Sweden and of Stockholm co., E Sweden, situated where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. , Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001 The Swedish IT security company, Blueice Research (http://blueiceresearch.com), today announced the recruitment of Fredrik Gustafsson as Chief Architect for the company. Fredrik joins Blueice Research from Sonera SmartTrust where he held the position of Chief Architect for PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of Development. Blueice Research has, since being founded in Feb 2000, been working intensively on building a very strong development team within the area of security and in particular PKI. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) has emerged as the security architecture best suited to providing confidentiality, authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , and data integrity as well as the essential feature of non-repudiation - serving to minimize the risks involved while conducting online transactions. Several of the developers in Blueice Research are among the leading persons within this area and the collective competence is one of the most significant in Sweden. Fredrik has been part of the technical core of ID2 Technologies since the founding of the company and is enormously experienced within the PKI area. In the area of PKI product development there are few who can match Fredrik's knowledge and experience. He will contribute very valuable knowledge on how to manage a quickly growing product base and development department, giving even more direction and strength to our already strong team, says Erik Johannisson, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Blueice Research. Fredrik Gustafsson (32) began his career at AU-System. There he was part of the core of iD2 Technologies when it started operations in 1996. In 1999 Fredrik was promoted to the position of Chief Architect and he continued as Chief architect at Sonera SmartTrust's PKI development in Stockholm following the takeover of iD2. He is specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. on the design, development and technical project management of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the based PKI solutions. Blueice Research has quickly established itself as one of the most interesting companies within the IT Security product development field. The company boasts many talented individuals as well as interesting products for the enabling of secure electronic transactions Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over insecure networks, specifically, the Internet. SET is not itself a payment system, but rather a set of security protocols and formats that enables users to employ the existing from mobile devices. The focus on mobility was one of the main reasons I was drawn to Blueice Research, says Fredrik Gustafsson. This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. : http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/06/20010306BIT00400/bit0003.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/03/06/20010306BIT00400/bit0003.pdf |
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