SPYRUS and SanDisk Announce Collaboration to Protect Sensitive Information From Loss or Global Data Espionage.World Leaders For a list of heads of state, see . World leaders is a MMORPG. The game involves creating a state, joining an alliance and going into war. It is mostly played by players from Israel, China, USA, Britain, Brazil and Saudi-Arabia. in Next-Generation Personal Encryption Devices and Flash Memory Address Data Protection Issues SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. & MILPITAS, Calif. -- SPYRUS, Inc., an innovator in portable hardware security products and solutions, and SanDisk([R]) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNDK), the leading provider of high-performance flash memory technology, today announced a collaboration to provide highly advanced data storage protection on next-generation removable flash storage card products. The SPYRUS Hydra Privacy Card([R]) (Hydra PC([TM])) Series II version 2.0 personal encryption device provides advanced hardware security capabilities for securing data on the removable miniSD([TM]) flash storage, including the new miniSD High Capacity (miniSDHC([TM])) cards from SanDisk. SDHC SDHC Secure Digital High Capacity (flash memory) SDHC Succinate Dehydrogenase Complex, Subunit C SDHC School District of Hillsborough County (Florida) SDHC San Diego Housing Commission is the new designation for any SD[TM] or SD-based card that is larger than 2 GB(1), including forthcoming 4 GB to 32 GB capacities, and adheres to the SD 2.0 specification. The combination of very high security and high-density data storage made possible by this collaboration offers unprecedented capabilities designed to provide secure portable data storage for government, enterprise, small office, and home users. Miniaturization min·i·a·tur·ize tr.v. min·i·a·tur·ized, min·i·a·tur·iz·ing, min·i·a·tur·iz·es To plan or make on a greatly reduced scale. min of mass storage devices and the ever-increasing amounts of memory available in popular USB flash drives have made it possible to easily move very large amounts of data from computer to computer, greatly increasing employee productivity. The downside of this innovation is the risk of loss or theft of sensitive personal and enterprise information by authorized users, or even undetected data espionage by insiders. Hydra PC uses the latest Suite B cryptographic algorithms to protect sensitive Data at Rest (DAR) on computers or mass storage memory devices, and Data in Transit (DIT). The U.S. Government has approved Suite B algorithms as the strongest commercial-off-the-shelf cryptographic algorithms available to protect even classified data. Hydra PC also implements a unique, mathematically provable security In cryptography, a system has provable security if its security requirements can be stated formally in an adversarial model, as opposed to heuristically, with clear assumptions that the adversary has access to the system as well as enough computational resources. mechanism to authenticate the device, the user, and the host computer prior to encrypting or decrypting any data on the removable miniSD flash storage, effectively protecting digital assets as if they were national secrets. "Hydra PC provides the kind of advanced security features normally seen only in classified security products for data protection," said Amos Marom, vice president and general manager, Computing Solutions Division at SanDisk. "The Hydra PC uses commercial algorithms that can be exported to most countries throughout the world to allow customers globally to protect their valuable and sensitive data. The combination of the Hydra PC and the innovative SanDisk memory products, including the new 4 GB miniSDHC memory card, provides high security with the best performance for large data sets." The Hydra PC hardware-based security features, cryptographic algorithms, key management, and key lengths are suitable for lifetime authentication and encryption security. Hydra PC also supports legacy and FIPS-approved algorithms (RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. 1024/2048, 3DES, SHA-1) for backward compatibility See backward compatible. (jargon) backward compatibility - Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. with existing applications, including smart card logon, encrypted and digitally signed Any message or key that has been encrypted with a digital signature. When a user's public key is digitally signed by a certification authority (CA), it is known as a digital certificate or digital ID. See digital signature and digital certificate. e-mail, and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. access. The combination of strong security in a hardware-based personal encryption device using removable miniSD data storage brings unprecedented assurance to data protection that is highly cost effective. "SPYRUS has been a pioneer in small form factor, hardware-based encryption products. The use of replaceable miniSD cards in a single Hydra PC for data storage means that users will not be locked into a specific memory size or forced to replace their Hydra PC in order to upgrade to larger memory sizes," said Tom Dickens, Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of SPYRUS. "We've chosen to offer our ground-breaking Hydra PC encryption technology with the SanDisk memory products because SanDisk products have an enviable reputation for quality, reliability, performance, and high storage density." About SPYRUS SPYRUS has provided innovative portable security products and solutions for the information security market since its inception in 1992. Our primary product lines of LYNKS Hardware Security Modules, Rosetta USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. security devices and smart cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. , Hydra Privacy Card Series II, and identity management products (Signal Identity Manager and SPYRUS 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 ) meet customer needs for high-assurance security. Our mission is to set the standard for the new era of multinational information sharing and long term data protection. SPYRUS, Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Further information is available at www.spyrus.com. About SanDisk SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S. SPYRUS, Hydra Privacy Card, Hydra PC, Rosetta, LYNKS, and Signal Identity Manager are either registered trademarks or trademarks of SPYRUS, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other jurisdictions. All other company, organization and product names are trademarks of their respective organizations. SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. SDHC and miniSDHC are trademarks. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, these products may not perform as expected, no security technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release. (1) 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. |
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