County of Guilford North Carolina Implements Sigaba Secure Messaging to Protect Law Enforcement Information Sharing.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Sigaba (www.sigaba.com), a leader in the delivery of secure messaging solutions to government and commercial enterprises, today announced that Guilford County, North Carolina Guilford County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 421,048. Its county seat is Greensboro6. Since 1938, an additional county court has been located in High Point, North Carolina, making Guilford one of only a handful has selected Sigaba Secure Messaging as their platform for secure information sharing See data conferencing. . "Utilizing best of breed security technology for communicating sensitive and private information is a priority for Guilford County," said county CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Barbara Weaver. "In particular, this is a significant focus for county law enforcement that must regularly share sensitive information with other agencies and personnel outside of their department." Guilford County is utilizing the Sigaba SendAnywhere[TM] Secure Email application and Sigaba Secure Messaging for Mobile Devices[TM] for the county's BlackBerry([R]) users. The Sigaba solution provides Guilford County employees the capability to stay in full control of secure messages, even after they have been sent, as well as an auditing and reporting capability that outlines who accesses each message and when it was opened. "From a technology perspective, the county has a complex electronic mail flow," added Weaver. "The Sigaba solution integrated seamlessly into our IT infrastructure and was setup, tested and deployed within days." "Providing information security solutions to meet the complex needs of state and local governments continues to be an important area of focus," said Troy Hartless, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Sigaba. "The inherent flexibility and security of the Sigaba platform resulted in a swift and successful implementation for Guilford County and provides a strong foundation to meet their expanding secure information sharing needs." Sigaba's secure messaging applications provide the strongest level of security with the highest level of scalability and ease of administration. The Sigaba standards-based secure messaging platform offers a future-proof design and rapid return on investment. ABOUT GUILFORD COUNTY Guilford County, located in the heart of North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , is the state's third largest county and home to nearly 460,000 North Carolinians. The County has 27 departments servicing both internal and external customers. The Information Services Department The Information Services Department (ISD) (Traditional Chinese: 政府新聞處; Simplified Chinese: 政府新闻处 has 59 staff members supporting various agencies and approximately 2,700 employees using a broad range of technologies. ABOUT SIGABA Sigaba provides patented security infrastructure solutions that enable industry and government to exchange information securely with their colleagues, customers, partners and constituents. The company's standards-based SigabaNet[TM] platform takes the complexity out of strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. and enables organizations to easily authenticate users across network environments. The result is a unique way to separately encrypt sensitive data in order to mitigate risks while strengthening relationships, improving efficiencies and safeguarding intellectual property. Sigaba is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. . For more information visit www.sigaba.com. |
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