TeleTrusT Innovation awards confered on Secusmart, CONNET and CORISECIO

Tap-proof telephoning, protected digital identity and secure operation of Smartphones awarded

Berlin / Madrid, Oktober 2008.- Laureate of the TeleTrusT Innovation Award 2008 is the IT-Security solution "Secuvoice", a development of Secusmart (Düsseldorf) in cooperation with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Giesecke & Devrient and T-Systems. Further awards went to "Company on Net" by CONNET from Ljubljana and "LBS Automation" by CORISECIO from Darmstadt. The Innovation Awards have been awarded on October 8th during the ISSE-Conference in Madrid.
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Secuvoice encodes the communication and authenticates the participants. Thus the solution makes mobile telephoning tap-proof and fraud resistant. "With Secuvoice security functions are directly integrated into the mobile phone", Dr. Günther Welsch, managing director of TeleTrusT, explains. "Therewith Secusmart and T Systems have developed a solution that is suitable for daily use and its necessity and advantage is obvious to everybody." This was one of the reasons the jury selected Secuvoice out of the abundance of applications for the Innovation Award 2008.

"Secuvoice is our response to the question how companies and public authorities can protect themselves from electronic eavesdropping by spies and competitors without having to forgo the comfort of a mobile phone" Dr. Hans-Christoph Quelle, managing director of Secusmart, adds. "The TeleTrusT award confirms our company?s strategy to make security easy to use."

The second award went to CONNET from Ljubljana (Slovenia) who developed the trustworthy digital business certificate "Company On Net". The certificate verifies the identity of companies and organizations in the internet and anchors it on a new secure domain. The site verified by Company On Net includes secure official data about the company and optional financial or credit information. Thus the certificate helps the companies in getting more competitive, visible and trustworthy and by doing so it makes the internet more business friendly.

The third award went to the IT-Security expert from Darmstadt CORISECIO for the solution "Location Based Service (LBS) Automation" which has been jointly developed with T-Systems. This product extends the security solution "Mobile Suite" by location independent functions automatically starting actions on the device or changing settings. Thereby the secure operation of Smartphones within the entire organization becomes more efficient. The award-winning product LBS Automation will be shown at the Systems in Munich (Hall B3 Stand 120).


BACKGROUND:
TeleTrusT awards the Innovation Award annually for European developments which integrate innovative and trustworthy applications in the electronic business processes of companies. Therewith they play a leading role in equipping applications with adequate security functions. The main criterion for the awarding process is the proven advantage for companies. User friendliness and simple administration play an important role as well as the design of the technical solution.

With the Innovation Award TeleTrusT wants to motivate further providers and manufacturers of IT-Security products to create strategic partnerships with users and multipliers. Well-known laureates of previous years are SAFELAYER Secure Communications (Spain), T Mobile, the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German annuity assurance), the Austrian Biometrics provider ekey, the Deutsche Sparkassenverlag (DSV), the Deutsche Genossenschafts-Verlag (DG Verlag), the regional tax office (OFD) Munich, the BfG Bank, the German Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry as well as the project Media@Komm (online-service from Bremen).

TeleTrusT at Systems 2008: 21 to 24 October in Munich, Hall B3, Stand 120.


About TeleTrusT Germany ? a Non-Profit Organization TeleTrusT Germany, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to establishing trustworthy and reliable framework conditions for the application of information and communication technology. Founded eighteen years ago, TeleTrusT developed into a widely known and acknowledged competency network for the issues of IT security in Germany and Europe. Today, TeleTrusT represents over eighty-five member organizations from the industry, science and research sectors, as well as public authorities.

Members have the opportunity to engage in a multitude of interesting theme and project working groups addressing current issues of IT security and security management. TeleTrusT operates the European Bridge CA project which meanwhile has issued 700.000 public key certificates to affiliated participants for secure e-mail communication over the internet. TeleTrusT initiated the T.I.S.P. certificate which provides IT security specialists with certification of their expertise. www.teletrust.de

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