Zero-Knowledge Systems Names Technology, Privacy and Legal Leaders to Its Advisory Board.Business Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2001 - Board's broad range of experience and expertise provides Zero-Knowledge Systems with unmatched leadership and vision - Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference - March 7, 2001 Zero-Knowledge(R) Systems Inc., the leading provider of privacy technologies and services for consumers and business, today strengthened its privacy expertise and leadership by naming eight respected legal, privacy and technology experts to its Advisory Board. The Board will provide senior management with strategic guidance, help the company create new privacy products and services for customers and act as company resources and liaisons in their respective communities. Members of the Zero-Knowledge Systems Advisory Board:
- Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.,
co-creator of public key cryptography and co-author of Privacy on
the Line: the Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
- David Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems, University of Pennsylvania and member of the US
Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology
- Michael Froomkin, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of
Law and member of the "Panel of Experts" of the World Intellectual
Property Organization's Internet Domain Name Process
- Deborah Hurley, Director, Harvard Information Infrastructure
Project, Harvard University and member of the Advisory Committee
to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and
Information Policy
- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and author
of Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace
- Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist, Computer Science Laboratory,
SRI and author of Computer-Related Risks
- Bruce Schneier, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane
Internet Security, Inc and author of Applied Cryptography and
Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
- Barbara Simons, President, Association for Computing Machinery and
member of the President's Export Council's Subcommittee on
Encryption
"As more customers come to Zero-Knowledge for comprehensive business and consumer privacy solutions, we rely on leaders in technology, policy, business and law to assist us in developing the products and services that meet market needs," said Tamas Hevizi, President and 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. of Zero-Knowledge Systems. "Each member of our advisory board has demonstrated decisive leadership in their respective fields and our alignment with them provides Zero-Knowledge with unmatched expertise and vision." "While companies and organizations continue to accumulate Accumulate Broker/analyst recommendation that could mean slightly different things depending on the broker/analyst. In general, it means to increase the number of shares of a particular security over the near term, but not to liquidate other parts of the portfolio to buy a security , access and sell large quantities of personal data, there has been an unfortunate lack of research into how it will be protected and handled," said Barbara Simons Barbara Simons is a prominent computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She has held various technical, administrative, and public policy positions with the ACM since the early 1990s [1]; she is founder and former Chair of , President of the Association for Computing Machinery See ACM. Association for Computing Machinery - Association for Computing and member of the President's Export Council's Subcommittee sub·com·mit·tee n. A subordinate committee composed of members appointed from a main committee. subcommittee Noun on Encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. . "Zero-Knowledge Systems is the pioneer in this area and one of the few companies working with all necessary parties to create solutions. I am involved with this advisory board to make sure these privacy solutions are incorporated into new technologies and services." "With its outstanding team, technology and understanding of privacy, Zero-Knowledge Systems has established itself as the leader in the privacy industry," said Peter Neumann Peter Neumann may refer to:
 līn),v to move the teeth into their proper positions to conform to the line of occlusion. myself with the company in an advisory role and believe that its success will greatly benefit all of us who live in the information society." More information on the Board is available here: http://www.zeroknowledge.com/company/advisors.asp About Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc. Zero-Knowledge Systems (http://www.zeroknowledge.com) is the leading provider of privacy enabling technologies and services for both consumers and enterprise. Zero-Knowledge Managed Privacy Services (http://www.zeroknowledge.com/business) provides expert consultation and privacy-enhancing solutions that enable businesses to comply with privacy legislation, maximize customer relationships and build consumer trust without violating privacy. Zero-Knowledge Freedom(R) Internet Privacy Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information. Suite provides consumers free access to the most easy-to-use privacy and security features - including a personal firewall, form filler A form filler is a software program that automatically fills forms in a UI. Form fillers can be part of a larger program, like a password manager or a enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO) solution. , cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to manager, ad manager and keyword alert - in addition to its leading paid premium services offering untraceable private email and anonymous browsing See browse. and chat. Freedom 2.0 for Windows 95/98, 2000, Me and Linux is available as a free 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. at http://www.freedom.net and Freedom source code is available at http://opensource.zeroknowledge.com. (Freedom(R) and Zero-Knowledge(R) are trademarks of Zero-Knowledge Systems, Inc. These trademarks may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks are sole property of their respective owners.) |
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