Kasten Chase Releases Assurency CipherShare 3.0; New Release Offers Enhanced Cryptography and Manageability.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2004 Kasten Chase (TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension : KCA KCA Kenya Cricket Association KCA Kentucky Counseling Association KCA Kids' Choice Awards (Nickelodeon) KCA Kidney Cancer Association (since 1990; Evanston, Illinois) KCA Kentucky Coal Association ), a provider of enterprise-class, data storage security solutions for secure information management, announced the release of Assurency CipherShare(TM) 3.0, a secure collaboration and file-sharing solution that now offers enhanced cryptography and new management features. "Assurency CipherShare 3.0 helps organizations eliminate the business risk associated with sharing valuable or sensitive information in collaborative working relationships," said Michael Milligan, Chief Executive Officer of Kasten Chase. "The solution further reinforces our message to corporate executives that - as the perimeter of your enterprise continues to shift - you must protect the data first." Assurency CipherShare 3.0 combines 'anytime, anywhere' information access, document management features, optimized file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. , real-time communication and robust data security. It allows organizations to establish secure, virtual workspaces across network and organizational boundaries to enhance workgroup productivity. Employing strong authentication, granular access control and transparent data encryption data encryption, the process of scrambling stored or transmitted information so that it is unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient. Historically, data encryption has been used primarily to protect diplomatic and military secrets from foreign , CipherShare 3.0 protects collaborative information on servers, on desktops, on mobile computing platforms, and at all points in between. Assurency CipherShare 3.0 introduces three major enhancements: -- Kasten Chase Cryptographic Engine (KCCE KCCE Kettering Center for Continuing Education (Wright State University) ). Assurency CipherShare Version 3.0 incorporates Kasten Chase's advanced cryptographic engine. KCCE, a candidate for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) A series of publications issed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that specifies information security guidelines for federal government departments and agencies. 140-2 Level 1 certification, utilizes Elliptic Curve Cryptography See ECC. (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ) for all public / private key operations. While cryptographic strength is a configurable option within CipherShare, Version 3.0 ensures that all significant cryptographic parameters - symmetric key length, asymmetric key length, digital signature algorithms - are of equivalent strength, as recommended in NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. guidelines. A highly-efficient algorithm, ECC maintains overall system performance when long symmetric keys are protected with asymmetric keys of equivalent cryptographic strength. -- Policy Manager. CipherShare 3.0's Policy Manager provides Security Officers with a configuration utility to set key security parameters for an entire workgroup. Parameters such as cryptographic strength (e.g. symmetric and asymmetric key length), passphrase characteristics (e.g. length, composition, expiry and reuse policies), document export features, file recovery mechanisms, and system alerts can be configured through a single, simple management interface. The Policy Manager allows CipherShare to be tailored to specific needs quickly and efficiently. -- User Passphrase and Account Reset. User Passphrase and Account Reset are new tools to recover secure information in the event a user forgets their passphrase, or leaves a working group. Both recovery tools include robust safeguards to prevent rogue administrators or employees from gaining unauthorized access to valuable or sensitive information. CipherShare 3.0 protects the collaborative environment by ensuring that no single individual has sufficient privileges to compromise any user's account or data. "People working in trusted relationships, including engineering, health care, human resources and legal professionals, benefit immediately from CipherShare's secure collaboration features," said Steve Ducat DUCAT. The name of a foreign coin. The ducat of Naples shall be estimated in the computations of customs, at eighteen cents. Act of May 22, 1846. , Senior Vice President, Business Development. "It provides secure information access and sophisticated document management for workgroups sharing sensitive information - CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. files, medical records, personal information, legal documents - around the office or around the world." About Kasten Chase Kasten Chase (TSX: KCA) helps companies eliminate the business risk associated with the retention, management and disposal of valuable information. The company's data storage security solutions protect valuable data assets, while introducing new efficiencies in the management of vulnerable enterprise information. The company has its headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, with offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Sterling, Virginia. |
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