CRYPTOCard Awarded Prestigious ''Best Deployment Scenario'' By Info Security Products Guide; CRYPTOCard's Highly Successful Customer Deployments in Europe and the U.S. Earn High Praise from Renowned Security Experts
7/7/2005 6:30:01 AM
OTTAWA, Jul 07, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- CRYPTOCard (www.cryptocard.com), a leader in authentication technology for LANs, WANs, and web servers, today announced that its CRYPTO-Server authentication solution deployments for Rotherham Council in the U.K. and Lower Colorado River Authority in the U.S. have received the prestigious "Best Deployment Scenario 2005," award from Info Security Products Guide. The Info Security Product Guide Awards honor technologies that are shaping today's security industry, and the "Best Deployment Scenario," award winners were selected based on real-world solution deployments that had the most positive impact on customer security.
"By providing user-friendly ATM-style authentication technology that makes it simple for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux users to gain secure LAN, WAN, and web-based system access, CRYPTOCard is making simple, secure, and cost-effective identity management a reality for all users," said Judy Shelton, group editor at Silicon Valley Communications, the publishers of Info Security Products Guide. "The judges were not only impressed with the simplicity and versatility of CRYPTOCard's solution, but also the clear business case for its technology made by its customers."
Info Security Product Guide's judges selected winners after evaluating and researching solutions from more than 500 info security vendors globally. CRYPTOCard was selected based on two separate customer implementations: Rotherham Council in the U.K. and Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) in the U.S.
Rotherham Council wanted to improve productivity and work/life balance for its employees by enabling them to work from home, or other locations outside the office, and tasked RBT (Rotherham Brought Together), a joint venture between British Telecom & Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to provide IT Services to Rotherham Council, to find a secure and cost-effective solution that could be up and running within six months. RBT worked together with Oxygen Secure Systems, a CRYPTOCard reseller based in the U.K., to meet this goal.
"Now, smaller offices with three-to-five people can work from home, which is more convenient for the staff and more cost effective - enabling Rotherham Council to reallocate funds to other needed services," said James Clifford Senior Network Specialist. "Also, as everybody from IT staff to social workers can now access the system at any time from any location, the authentication solution has not only saved time and bettered service, but has also enabled Rotherham Council to improve productivity and work/life balance for its employees."
With the installation of CRYPTOCard's authentication technology, Pegasus Technologies, a CRYPTOCard reseller in the U.S., has enabled LCRA to make the critical Lockout/Tagout procedure (that ensures that equipment at the Fayette Power Project's three coal-fired generating units near La Grange, Texas, are safely shut down to make it safe for their maintenance staff to begin working on equipment), far more efficient.
"(By making it simple for maintenance staff to positively identify themselves without having to travel back to the clearance centre,) CRYPTOCard's authentication technology has enabled LCRA to save 60 percent of the time that was previously required to manually sign off/on the Lockout/Tagout process," said Douglas Plummer, Business Process Improvement Manager at Lower Colorado River Authority. "With an average of 15 minutes travel time to the clearance station, and over 3000 Red Tag clearances a year, LCRA estimates that it has saved 450 worker hours per year, which translates into a payback time of approximately seven months," Plummer continued. "And that is pretty impressive when you consider that LCRA's payback threshold for our investment projects is five years."
Already a recipient of such awards as "Best Security Product," at Comdex, "Best of Show," at Macworld, and SC Magazine's "Best Buy," rating in its annual two-factor authentication comparative test in this year's February issue, CRYPTOCard is excited about receiving an award that recognizes two of its numerous real-world deployments.
"These two awards recognize CRYPTOCard and its resellers' success in satisfying the authentication requirements of its global customer base, and also underscores CRYPTOCard's commitment to provide organizations with highly-secure, user-friendly authentication technology that is actually self funding," said Malcolm MacTaggart, President & CEO, CRYPTOCard Corporation.
About Info Security Products Guide Awards 2005
The Info Security Products Guide plays a vital role in keeping end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. It is written expressly for those who are adamant on staying informed of security threats and the preventive measure they can take. This guide includes award winning case studies and deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and the best selling products. The Info Security Products Guide Awards 2005 recognizes and honors excellence in all areas of information security.
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