Las Vegas, May 8, 2015 – WISeKey’s Founder and CEO, Carlos Moreira attended the SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference, which took place from May 5th to May 8th at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the conference, Mr. Moreira met with business and political leaders and held discussion focused on the need for establishing a cybersecurity global coalition to protect the financial sector.
The SkyBridge Alternatives (SALT) Conference facilities balanced discussions and debates on macro-economic trends, geo-political events and alternative investment opportunities for the year ahead. With over 1,800 thought leaders, public policy officials, business professionals, investors and money managers from over 42 countries and 6 continents, the SALT Conference provides an unmatched opportunity for attendees from around the world to connect with global leaders and network with industry peers.
This year’s event featured presentations from industry leaders in investment management, business, economics and public policy including: former US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel; former US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice; Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard; US Army General, David H. Petraeus; Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, Steve Forbes; and Former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Dr. Ben S. Bernanke. Over the course of the program, more than 100 speakers participated in over three dozen panels, speeches, and breakout sessions, addressed current critical geopolitical and economic issues. The agenda and list of speakers are available at http://saltconference.com.
Mr. Moreira, said, “It was a great honor to be invited to attend the SALT Conference in Las Vegas, a prestigious annual conference hosted by the investment firm, SkyBridge Capital. During the event, I had the opportunity to introduce the concept of BIGtrust in the U.S. BIGtrust is a global cybersecurity venture jointly established by WISeKey and OISTE.Org foundation, with the objective of promoting the use and adoption of international standards to secure electronic transactions.”
What is the difference between ‘security’ and ‘trust’ on the internet?
Trust is local, security is global. 2015 is shaping up to be the year that consumers and companies both come to this realization. Opportunities to bridge this gap abound as cyber-security start-ups quickly become Silicon Valley’s most recent fascination and venture capitalists have flooded the sector with investment as they look to back the latest technology used to fight criminals online.
On the whole, we’re doing a great job at securing the internet and developing new technologies to allow for enhanced personal data protection. But if security is to be viable, it must be engineered at the global level. Enter BIGtrust, the new coin of the realm that is rapidly replacing the market’s fascination with Big Data.
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos January 2015, BIGtrust emerged as a concept that gives due weight to trust’s importance in the digital age as billions of people around the world have grown increasingly distrustful of the internet and that the urgent necessity for a new model has emerged. For more information visit www.bigtrust.org.
About SkyBrige Capital
SkyBridge Capital is a global alternative investment firm with $13.1 billion in assets under management or advisement (as of February 28, 2015). (heartfulness.org) The firm offers hedge fund investing solutions that address a wide range of market participants from individual investors to large institutions.
SkyBridge takes a high-conviction approach to alpha generation, expressed through a thematic and opportunistic investment style. The firm manages multi-strategy funds of hedge funds and customized separate account portfolios, and provides hedge fund advisory services.
About WISeKey
WISeKey is a leading information cybersecurity and identity Management Company, a global growth partner of the World Economic Forum, providing specialized technologies for data protection, effective identification and authentication of people or objects to ensure secured communications and transactions without compromising trust. Established in 1999 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, WISeKey has facilitated and enabled the use of secure digital identities in everyday life as well as enhancing trust, privacy and inclusion.
A world-leading eSecurity company, WISeKey presides over physical infrastructures, mobile networks and the Web to ensure secure communications, exclusive relationships, protected identities and authenticated transactions. All without compromising trust and privacy. Its strategic location in Switzerland and partnerships with leading global organizations and brands set WISeKey apart from other digital security providers. While its DNA is strongly based in digital security technology, the Company strives to deliver 360 degree solutions based on individual needs.
For more information visit https://www.wisekey.com or on Twitter @wisekey
WISeKey in cooperation with the World Economic Forum USA is organizing Tuesday, April 28 at the 2015 at the International Financial Forum in New York a STALWARTS ROUNDTABLE – CYBER SECURITY AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS at the NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB – 180 Central Park South, New York
“CYBER SECURITY AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS” sessionon Tuesday, April 28 at the 2015 International Financial Forum.
| 9:40 – 10:20 am | STALWARTS ROUNDTABLE – CYBER SECURITY AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS | ||
| Keynote Introduction | Hany Fam | President | MasterCard Enterprise Partnerships |
| Moderator | Danil Kerimi | Director, Head of ICT Government Community | World Economic Forum USA |
| Panelists | Carlos Moreira | Founder and CEO | WISeKey |
| Jeffrey Wells | Executive Director of Cyber Development | Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development | |
| Pavlo Protopapa | Chairman and CEO | Spacecode | |
To view a detailed agenda CLICK HERE
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Carlos Creus Moreira Roundtable on CyberSecurity and IoT at the New York Investment Summit 2015
What is the difference between ‘security’ and ‘trust’ on the internet? Trust is local, security is global. 2015 is shaping up to be the year that consumers and companies both come to this realization. Opportunities to bridge this gap abound as cyber-security start-ups quickly become Silicon Valley’s most recent fascination and venture capitalists have flooded the sector with investment as they look to back the latest technology used to fight criminals online.
On the whole, we’re doing a great job at securing the internet and developing new technologies to allow for enhanced personal data protection. But if security is to be viable, it must be engineered at the global level. Enter Big Trust, the new coin of the realm that is rapidly replacing the market’s fascination with Big Data.
At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos 2015, Big Trust emerged as a concept that gives due weight to trust’s importance in the digital age. Companies that embrace Big Trust and prioritize security over customer-data commercialization will be rewarded by consumers who tire of repeated intrusions into their privacy.
At this year’s Davos Conference, I moderated a round table on CyberSecurity and participated as panelist at the New Business Context: Risky Business session. One conclusion was that with billions of people around the world have grown increasingly distrustful of the internet and that the urgent necessity for a new model has emerged. Big Trust. Our panel also concluded that there is actual commercial value in offering trust and security. The fundamental right to privacy is at stake and if users begin to abandon the Internet because of security concerns, the multitude of recent positive developments in digital communications will be lost. All kinds of applications and firms will be negatively affected, including social networks that need further customers and governments that rely on cloud computing.
Our Davos panel also weighed the challenges of scaling up user-centric solutions and they loom large. Sufficient venture capital funds must be sourced. Support from professional business service firms must be won. Mobile telecommunications networks, typically the least secure, have undergone massive expansion. Finally, our world is becoming increasingly interconnected and multipolar.
Other participants called for collaboration around faster-moving experimental projects in which the new demands of users help feed processes of entrepreneurial innovation in digital identity and personal data management.
One of the most mature and concrete examples of Big Trust on the Internet are the root systems we have developed in Switzerland in collaboration with OISTE*. These systems are created and maintained in secure military bunkers under the Swiss Alps. In the past these vaults held gold, but now they protect something more important – your privacy.
Project DIKTYO:
Recognizing:
- With big data, the Internet of things and the arrival of new generations of powerful ubiquitous communication along with convergence and cloud computing, we are on the move into yet unchartered territory in digital communications.
- A wealth of new services, meeting our outstanding needs in health, education, commerce, and public services, stand to be developed and scaled in ways never seen before.
Aware that
- Continued disorderly access and uncontrolled diffusion of personal information without our knowledge harbours significant risks for misuse.
- Usability and security are currently subjected to trade-offs that create difficult choices for how to strike the balance.
- It is becoming increasingly expensive and distortive for financial and other sectors to insure and protect themselves against the risks of cybercrime taking advantages of security glitches.
Against the background of
- Billions of new human users – most of them members of a young generation – are set to join the Internet.
- Trillions of devices, ranging from critical infrastructures to sensors to cars to refrigerators to toys or even watches and clothes, stand to go on line.
- Each user and device will have to be embedded in trusted frameworks of authentication and authorisation framed, in a myriad of constant borderless exchanges and transactions.
- Devices will be set to take decisions automatically and autonomously.
We, the under signers, agree on the importance of:
- Mitigating security risks and increasing trust in this dense digital environment, with much higher precision and at lower cost than is the case today
- Initiating effective collaboration to put in place a coherent system for electronic identities, capable of handling derived identities, operating for humans as well as for devices.
- Putting users in better control of their digital identity, including what data they share and of their privacy,
- Ensuring trust interoperability between Cryptographic Rootkeys.
- Paving the way for trusted search and other e-services,operating across sectorial and national boundaries
We therefore agree to
- Plug into the proposed Single European Digital Identity Community as envisaged by the Digital Agenda (DAE) in its Key Action 16, collaborate with ETSI, W3C, and IEEE, and engage with the ITU,OECD, ISO and other multilateral and international bodies of relevance to the global linkages and ramifications.
- Build upon the Davos Charter of 2014 “Addressing Identity Management, Privacy, Security and Trust in Digital Communications” ()
- Draw upon the work that has been undertaken on new frameworks and business models, e.g., an Individual Digital Identity (INDI) by the GINI project (), comprising user control in sharing personal information, a new generation of service delivery, public data provision and user-driven operator services ensuring the integrity of data, reputational protection, intellectual property rights protection and trust;
- Benefit from the provision of OISTE ‘s Rootkey () and its innovative neutral Trust Framework.
- Further examining how to recognize diverse technical solutions, including requirements of common protocols, Defining what legal cross-border interoperability is required for orderly authentication and authorisation in the world of tomorrow?
In order to Achieve:
- A coherent system for trusted identities, operating for humans as well as for digital devices.
- A neutral platform for all stakeholders, bridging Multiple Jurisdictions, to address issues of Cyber Security, Search,Privacy and Data Governance in a secure and open Internet.
* The OISTE Foundation, is a Geneva-based, not for profit organization, founded in 1988 was created with the objectives of promoting the use and adoption of international standards to secure electronic transactions, expand the use of digital certification and ensure the interoperability of certification authorities’ e-transaction systems.
This article is published in collaboration with WISeKey. Publication does not imply endorsement of views by the World Economic Forum.
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Author: Carlos Creus Moreira is Founder and CEO of WISeKey, a Geneva-based World Economic Forum Global Growth Company and.pioneer in digital protection, online trust and privacy protection since 1999.
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Addressing Identity of People and Things, Privacy, Security and Trust in the Cloud
As part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, WISeKey organizes a side event on how to find a new footing for the development of solutions to critical, unresolved issues in identity management, privacy, security and trust in digital communication.
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Geneva 28th January, 2014 – During the roundtable on Addressing Identity of People and Things, Privacy, Security and Trust on the Cloud, sponsored by WISeKey, a distinguished panel composed of Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner; Humberto Ribeiro, SCS – Ministry of Development, Brazil; Prof Thomas Andersson, IKED; Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT and Marina Grigorian, Fraunhofer “FOKUS”, discussed the future of identity management and data governance under the moderation of Carlos Moreira.
Trust and security matter, concluded the panel. The fundamental right to privacy is now at stake. The entire development of digital communication is affected because people won’t use what they can’t trust. That applies to basically all kinds of applications, from people considering whether to join social networks or businesses or governments to rely on cloud computing,
The panel weighted the challenges of scaling up user-centric solutions, finding enough venture capital and sufficient support from professional business services against the enormous expansion of mobile telephony and the shaping of a multi-polar world with new underwater cable connections, where emerging players like Brazil are engaged.
“I want to see European companies taking advantage of the renewed interest in providing services with better privacy protection and security”, said commissioner Kroes. The participants called for collaboration around faster-moving experimental projects in which the new demands of users help feeding processes of entrepreneurial innovation in digital identity and personal data management.
Extending the results of the GINI project, the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED) of Sweden and the International Secure Electronic Transactions Organization (OISTE) of Switzerland, co-organizers of the event, proposed to launch an effort engaging high-tech companies, a range of service providers and civil society in the generation of user-centric solutions applicable to health, education and business creation catering for the imminent arrival of 5 new billion Internet users. A new generation of operator functions within a multi-corner model enabling users, relying parties, and data bases to interoperate while ensuring the full control of personal data by the individual user will be a key feature of this effort.
WISeKey is a Global Growth Company Partner of the World Economic Forum: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM14/WEF_AM14_GGC_Profiles.pdf
Some echoes about the event:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/Trillions_at_stake_in_private_data_struggle.html?cid=37792896
Press contacts:
WISeKey
Satu Kulmala
Tel +41 22 594 3005
skulmala@wisekey.com
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Geneva 17 January 2014 – WISeKey will be organizing the Roundtable “Addressing Identity of People and Things, Privacy, Security and Trust in the Cloud” at the Belvédere Hotel in Davos on Wednesday 22 January 2014, 07:15am-8:30am.
http://davos14.wisekey.com/event.php
During this Roundtable Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey and OISTE.ORG will challenge participants to accept that future growth on the Internet must support an individual’s right to control their own personal identifiable information (PII) and find a new footing for the development of solutions to critical, unresolved issues in identity management, privacy, security and trust in the digital world.
See CNBC video on this subject: http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000017258
In a couple of years, one out of two persons on earth will use Internet. One out of four will belong to a social network. By then, the combined Internet economies of the G-20 will reach $4.2 trillion and mobile devices will account for some 80 per cent of all broadband connections. Meanwhile, following the rise of cloud computing, convergence and much enhanced interoperability, the technology will be in place to link and exploit the enormous amount of data thereby produced in ways that are now unthinkable.
However, what conditions will apply to the use of personal data? How are individuals to cope in a digital universe in which all and everyone, human beings and “things”, blend in one mesh? Will individual users have a word to say in how the data they generate is managed? Will the politics of the Internet evolve in directions that are yet unknown? Will the human right to privacy set a new course for Internet?
The World Economic Forum’s Community of Global Growth Companies was formed in 2007 to engage dynamic, high-growth companies which have the potential to be tomorrow’s industry leaders and to become a driving force of economic and social change. WISeKey was first nominated as a Global Growth Company Partner in 2007 as a global leader on Digital Identification and Secure Trusted Electronic Transactions over the Internet.
About WISeKey
Established in 1999 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, WISeKey is a leading Cyber Security company, providing specialized technologies for trusted digital identities for people, objects and mobiles, personal clouds and authentication to secure communications and transactions without compromising trust.
www.wisekey.com
See the full list of Global Growth Company Partners of the World Economic Forum: http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM14/WEF_AM14_GGC_Profiles.pdf
| Press contacts: WISeKey | Satu Kulmala | Tel +41 22 594 3005 | skulmala@wisekey.com |
Belvédere Hotel, Davos
Wednesday 22 January 2014, 07:30 – 09:00.
As part of the World Economic Forum in Davos, WISeKey sponsors a side event on how to find a new footing for the development of solutions to critical, unresolved issues in identity management, privacy, security and trust in digital communication. Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) has also provided co-sponsorship
The content is planned under the joint responsibility of the International Secure Electronic Transactions Organization (OISTE), based in Geneva, Switzerland; and the International Organization for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED), based in Malmö, Sweden. It is also a reflection of the project “Global Identity Networking of Individuals – Support Action” (GINI –SA) of the European Union. GINI proposes a roadmap for a new model of digital identity management: Read more…
Target audience: decision makers in media, industry, government, academia, financial institutions and multilateral bodies.
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In a couple of years, one out of two persons on earth will use Internet. One out of four will belong to a social network. By then, the combined Internet economies of the G-20 will reach $4.2 trillion and mobile devices will account for some 80 per cent of all broadband connections. Meanwhile, following the rise of cloud computing, convergence and much enhanced interoperability, the technology will be in place to link and exploit the enormous amount of data thereby produced in ways that are now unthinkable.
However, what conditions will apply to the use of personal data? Those that prevail today… or will new conditions emerge? Will individual users have a word to say in how the data they generate is managed? Will the politics of the Internet evolve in directions that are yet unknown? Will the human right to privacy set a new course for Internet?
At present, financial and commercial markets, and – apparently – governments as well, are moving at high pace to gain access to and exploit the personal data and communications of all human beings. Technical progress will quickly take us into the stratosphere of capacity in this respect – unless countervailing forces are put into place. Without some sort of checks and balances, companies – and presumably, governments – will gain entirely new means to abuse the end user.
Given the cross-border nature of the digital world and the contradictory interests of different countries, this is not primarily a matter of regulation. In fact, too much state intervention would be counterproductive, although new legislation and state partnership is required.
In contrast to the current public debate, the discussion will focus on the tools which will make market forces start working for users in protecting and managing their digital identities and personal data. This will require moving towards a setup in which users, relying parties, and data bases are appropriately serviced by a new breed of operator functions.
The GINI consortium proposes an INDI – Individual Identity Networking – ecosystem; where the individual will gain control of his/her identity and thus the revenue potential of personal data.
The establishment of an INDI ecosystem stands to generate tremendous value through a new sort of functionality in regard to identity management, security, privacy and trust in digital communication. But what is required for the rise of operators that are able to deliver the implied kind of services? How can they be mandated and certified to guard the diverse needs of users, relying parties and data providers on terms that would allow for global trust among all? Would a supranational coordinating body capable of certifying and cross-certifying a range of authentication systems, using a common standard, be required?
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On this basis, WISeKey, OISTE and IKED invite you to participate in this session and contribute to an orderly exchange of views on how to move away from our present conundrum by exploring ways forward on issues that are fundamentally important to market efficiency and the standing of human beings in the digital world.
The session will highlight the risks of the current development but also examine ways to turn things around. The session will add insights how the current frameworks can be extended and revamped to meet with the envisioned kinds of functionality. Panellists and participants from around the world will bring insights what it takes to achieve a completely different kind of arena: one in which market forces support the rise of operators that are driven by the value generated by user-centric digital communication in which individuals control their own identities and personal information, and in which data governance is optimized with a view to the virtues of security, privacy, accountability and trust.
Finally, the session will venture into possibilities for launching pilots in key sectors, spanning national borders to advance, test and further examine a new generation of innovations and viable business models.
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Panellists
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Carlos MoreiraFounder, Chairman and CEO WISeKeySwiss national, began his career as a UN expert on IT, CyberSecurity. In 1999, Mr. Moreira founded WISeKey, where he currently serves as Chairman and CEO.
He is a Member of the UN Global Compact, Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade and Organized Crime. Founding Member World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies. World Economic Forum New Champion 2007 to 2013 and OISTE.ORG. He was named by the Swiss financial Bilan’s one of the 300 most influential people in Switzerland’ for 2013. Mr Moreira’s unique profile, which combines extensive high level international diplomacy experience and technologies expertise, has positioned him as a distinctive authority, thought leader, and entrepreneurial force in today’s digital world where the acquisition and trusted protection of a digital identity has become an essential step for citizens and entities across the globe. |
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Neelie KroesEuropean Commission Vice-President and Commissioner, Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship. Responsible for the new legal framework for personal data protection in Europe. |
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Thomas Andersson
Professor, Dr., Thomas Andersson Chairman of the GINI Consortium. He is also the Chairman of the International Organisation of Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED), Chairman of the International Entrepreneurship Academy, Chairman of the International Council of the Global Trust Center. |
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Radu POPESCU-ZELETIN
Professor at the Technical University Berlin and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). His chair for “Open Communication Systems” at the TU Berlin is highly involved in the development of technologies for “I-centric communication” and “Autonomic Communication” as main constituents of the Future Internet. He is the founder of several telecommunication companies and member of the Microsoft Interoperability Executive Customer Council. Founder of the Interdisciplinary Studies on Policy, Law, Administration and Technology and of the Wireless World Research Forum. |
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Humberto Luiz Ribeiro
Secretary of Commerce and Services (SCS). Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade of Brazil. BSc in Civil Engineering, Univ. of Brasilia; MBA; executive programmes, MIT, INSEAD, Wharton School, Georgetown University. Entrepreneurial experience in various information technology, business process management, business process outsourcing and biocapacity companies. Since 2011, Secretary of Commerce and Services of Brazil. Member, National Leaders Forum, Brazil. 2002, nominated Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum. |
Oliver Cann, Associate Director, Media Relations, Tel.: +41 79 799 3405 ; E-mail: Oliver.Cann@weforum.org
- New app launched at the Summit on the Global Agenda 2013 uses social sourcing to help shoppers gauge authenticity of goods
- The aim is to raise consumer awareness of how illicit trade contributes to conflicts and instability in fragile states
- Download the app here. More information about the Summit on the Global Agenda 2013 is available here
The app is an initiative of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade & Organized Crime and allows consumers to detect and verify the authenticity of goods before purchase. Crowdsourcing techniques are used to build consumer reports on the authenticity, price and quality of goods as well as accurate geolocation and vendor information.
Illicit trade is a major contributor to discrepancies in wealth between the developing and developed world, fuels conflicts and destabilizes fragile states. It also hinders economic development, institution-building, human rights and the rule of law, and supports corrupt practices among government officials and private citizens alike.
“By raising awareness of the problem of counterfeiting and illicit trade, this app shows how every person can make a difference,” said Martina Gmür, Senior Director, Head of the Network of Global Agenda Councils, World Economic Forum.
“This app brings the problem closer to our daily lives. Each of us, as responsible customers, can help combat the profits of illicit trade and organized crime,” said Adam Blackwell, Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Organization of American States and a Chairman of the Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade & Organized Crime.
“Should I Buy It? supports the Council’s endeavour to develop a digital identity framework in which individuals, organizations, services and devices can trust each other and authenticate their digital identities to address certain urgent issues related to cyber security in general, and illicit trade in particular, and WISeKey is proud to be part of this development,” said Carlos Moreira, Chief Executive of WISeKey and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Illicit Trade & Organized Crime.
The first release of the application is available via the iTunes app store, and the public can access reports via a Facebook page.
The Co-Chairs of the Summit on the Global Agenda 2013 are Nasser Ahmed AlSowaidi, Chairman, Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), United Arab Emirates, and Sultan Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates.
World Economic Forum announcement:
http://www.weforum.org/news/app-launched-help-consumers-fight-illicit-trade
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Geneva, Lima, 22nd April 2013 – WISeKey and GJC, Grupo Jaime Câmara, two World Economic Forum Global Growth Companies have entered into a Joint Venture Agreement, aiming at the creation of a new company with the name WISeKey Liber expanding WISeKey’s global footprint to Latin America and Iberia. WISeKey’s global expansion in the past few years focused on emerging economies and in particular BRIC economies, with several major wins in these countries that face high growth in cyber security, digital identity and privacy solutions, mobile communications security, secure cloud computing and other WISeKey related technologies.
This new JV will expand existing operations in Latin America and Iberia and shall result in WISeKey becoming one of the fastest growing eSecurity companies in the world. WISeKey and GJC initiative form an alliance between two leading companies whose values and product portfolios bring high quality technology and eSecurity services to consumers in Latin America and around the world. This will also allow the company to provide its solutions through a localized High Security datacenter in the region.
The partnership includes a strategic investment by GJC in WISeKey SA representing 5% equity stake and an option to bring the equity participation to 10% before the IPO of WISeKey.
Carlos Moreira, Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of WISeKey said: «The economic outlook for Latin America is very bright and this joint venture enables WISeKey to respond faster to marketplace dynamics. Our company will be in a better position to strategically deploy our technology in the region and to accelerate our growth».
Cristiano Camara, CEO of GJC said, «The joint venture will provide WISeKey with a platform to expand its successfully branded products to the Latin America and Iberia markets in a consolidated approach integrating with local technologies and services and offering the solutions to regional clients. WISeKey’s partnership with GJC leverages both firms’ strengths and will enable us to expand eSecurity services much faster and more efficiently across the region, substantially increasing revenues and profitability».
More about:
Website: http://www.wisekeyliber.com/
About GJC
Grupo Jaime Câmara (http://www.gjccorp.com.br) is the leading communications group in the brazilian North-Central region of the country with 26 media vehicles in Goias, Tocantins and Federal District. GJC holds 4 newspapers (O Popular, Jornal Daqui, Jornal do Tocantins and Daqui Tocantins), 11 TV stations, 9 radio stations and internet media.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (www.wisekey.com) is one of the fastest growing eSecurity companies in the world, being a leading Swiss information security and identity management software and services company established in 1999 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. WISeKey’s mission is to facilitate the global growth of secure electronic transactions by providing businesses, governments and individuals with advanced technology and services that authenticate the identity of communicators, signatures, and objects during Internet transactions.
Press contacts:
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Breno Machado
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+55 62 3250-1001
WISeKey
Miléna Piletta-Zanin
Marketing and Communications
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Participation on the web and in social networks puts us all at risk of personal data theft. Hackers have infiltrated scores of networks by gathering innocuous details about all of us that flows freely on the web, and using that information deceptively. Encrypting personal messages is one means to help protect our details from eavesdropping, phishing, and other deceptions. Encrypting private correspondence on social networks can also protect your personal information from being involuntarily used for advertising. With WISeID the information is converted from its recognizable format into a code that cannot be read without applying a complex algorithm to decrypt it.
WISeID Social encryption is part of the Right to Disappear Online international campaign launched by WISeKey and The International Organization for Secure Electronic Transactions OISTE.ORG with the objective to return the control of personal data to the users.
WISeKey.com is the pioneer of Digital Identity for people, objects and content and eSecurity solutions. The company is recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Growth Company Partner. The privately held company is headquartered in Geneva and serves customers in more than 140 countries.
You can test encrypting your wall at http://www.wiseid.com/en/feature
Contact:
WISeKey SA
mpiletta@wisekey.com
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