Cryptek And IBM DB2 Partner to Deliver Industry Leading Security Across Shared Data Networks; Partnership Provides EAL4 Certified Secure Network Access For IBM DB2 Software.Business Editors STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002 Cryptek Inc., a provider of information security solutions for protecting high-value government and corporate information assets, today announced it has partnered with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , the industry leader in the database market, to provide enhanced database security to customers worldwide. Cryptek's new information security solution, termed DiamondVDL(TM), determines who has access to the data even across shared networks. The combination of DiamondVDL and DB2 increases flexibility in security administration. The new offering secures data at the source by controlling delivery based on the content of fields within the data being accessed. DiamondVDL is application independent and enables highly secure and easy-to-implement supply chains and closed workgroups by determining who can access the data and where that data can be received. DiamondVDL utilizes content-driven labeling external to the DB2 server to eliminate all application security programming currently required in business-to-business scenarios. IBM DB2 customers can now leverage Cryptek's technology without custom coding, excessive management overhead, or loss of performance. "Database security has been expensive and complex to implement. However, our new content-based labeling approach to securing data adds another dimension to security for applications running on DB2," said David E. Gross, Cryptek 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. . Cryptek will co-market DiamondVDL with the IBM data management team on critical infrastructure projects in the government and commercial markets. "IBM is committed to delivering a highly secure, scalable, open database solution that also provides rich functionality such as Geospatial and XML based XML Base is a W3C recommendation, that proposes a facility for defining base URIs for parts of XML documents. XML Base recommendation was adopted on 2001-06-27. External links
solutions," says Lauren Flaherty, vice president of Marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions. "The combination of DB2 and Cryptek technology enables us to provide customers a database solution utilizing technology that has been proven in the most secure government environments." Cryptek's DiamondVDL (Virtual Data Labeling(TM)) is a component of the company's DiamondTEK(TM), a secure access control system that provides fine grain access control of information assets inside enterprise networks. DiamondTEK recently received the Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4 rating satisfying the federal requirements of NSTISSP NSTISSP National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Policy #11 for information assurance systems. For further information about DiamondTEK, please call Marty Ryan at (571) 434-2000. About Cryptek, Inc. http://www.cryptek.com/ Cryptek, Inc. is an information security solutions provider offering today's highest Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low level of protection for government and corporate information assets. Cryptek(R) solutions include DiamondTEK(TM), the company's flagship information security system designed to protect information inside the network. Cryptek, the worldwide market leader for secure tactical facsimile machines, manufactures the American-made TS-21 BLACKJACK blackjack, one of the world's most widely played gambling card games; also known as twenty-one or vingt-et-un. Despite contesting claims between the French and Italians, its origins are unknown. (R) (AN/UXC-10), the standard, rugged tactical facsimile for the U.S. Army that is used by elite armed forces worldwide. Founded in 1996, Cryptek is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. located in Sterling, Virginia Sterling, Virginia is an unincorporated Washington, D.C. suburb, northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Reston, close to Dulles International Airport in Loudoun County. . About IBM's Data Management Business http://www.software.ibm.com/data IBM's DB2 database software is the worldwide market share leader in the industry. The combined integrated strength of IBM's data management products, based on DB2, powers the industry's most demanding solutions. IBM is the only data management software vendor to provide customers with integrated solutions for database management, tools, content management and business intelligence. DB2 is the industry's first multimedia, Web-ready relational database management system relational database management system - relational database , strong enough to meet the demands of large corporations and flexible enough to serve medium-sized and small e businesses. There are more than 60 million DB2 users from 400,000 companies worldwide relying on IBM data management technology. |
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