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WISeKey launches the campaign “Secure Your Digital Life”, providing trusted digital identities based secure e-mail services

wisekeyProduct — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:53:51 +0000

Geneva, 11 August 2014 – As a response of the increasing awareness about on-line security, after the steal of millions of passwords by organized criminal groups was made public, WISeKey announced a campaign to promote the adoption of stronger identities and technologies to secure e-mail and other communication services. This initiative will allow any Internet user to apply for an electronic identity and a trusted e-mail address, reducing the risk of identity theft and e-mail eavesdropping while interacting on the Net.

WISeKey, a Swiss company leader in electronic identity and cybersecurity, provides free electronic identities and Secure Personal Cloud through its portals https://www.certifyid.com and https://www.wiseid.com. WISeKey CertifyID Accounts allow any user to register and obtain a trusted digital certificate that can be used to secure e-mail and files. Additionally, WISeKey proposes it’s awarded WISeID technology to protect the user’s private information as passwords, confidential documents and pictures etc, with the option to activate a “Secure Personal Cloud” service that ensures the confidential information is secured by WISeKey’s encryption technology and Swiss Privacy Laws. In a second stage of this campaign, WISeKey will provide all users with a trusted e-mail address that will include security features as delivery receipts and notarization services.

The recent awareness about e-mail security made companies like Google and Yahoo announce the future implementation of encryption solutions in their services. Main difference of WISeKey’s campaign is that CertifyID Accounts are third-party and worldwide trusted identities, allowing the usage of any e-mail address and compatible e-mail client for desktop and mobile. Additionally, WISeKey technology is based on industry standards for PKI, as S/MIME, being the base for legally recognized digital signatures.

About WISeKey. WISeKey is one of the fastest growing eSecurity companies in the world, being a leading Swiss information security and identity management software and services company. 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.

WISeKey is a Global Growth Company Partner of the World Economic Forum:
http://www3.weforum.org/docs/AM14/WEF_AM14_GGC_Profiles.pdf

Apply for your free digital identity: https://www.certifyid.com.
More information about WISeKey e-Security offering at https://www.wisekey.com.

Press contacts: WISeKey, Satu Kulmala, Tel +41 22 594 3005, skulmala@wisekey.com

The United Nations (ECOSOC) grants Special Consultative Status to OISTE.ORG based in Geneva promoting a “Switzerland on the Internet” to provide Net Cloud Neutrality

wisekeyProduct — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:40:08 +0000

Geneva – 6 November 2013 – The United Nations (ECOSOC), grants Special Consultative Status to OISTE.ORG based in Geneva promoting a “Switzerland on the Internet” to provide Net neutrality. UN Consultative status enables OISTE.ORG to actively engage with the United Nations Secretariat, programs, funds and agencies in a number of ways http://www.oiste.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/OISTE_confirmation_ECOSOC.pdf
OISTE.ORG considers that there are important issues related to personal data management, digital identity, information security and the respect of the right to privacy that concern all Internet users and demand concerted actions between States. The OISTE Foundation founded in 1998 as a not for profit organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, regulated by article 80 et seq. of the Swiss Civil Code is creating a “Switzerland on the Internet”, a set of policies, technologies and legislation allowing the Internet to provide Net neutrality which is increasingly becoming a subject of discussions both at private and public sector. OISTE position is that internet companies, social networks, cloud services, internet services providers and governments should treat the data of users and organizations equally and that everyone has the right to free access to an open internet. Any erosion of net neutrality is an attack on the founding principles of the internet. At the heart of this strategy OISTE Rootkey is present in over 2 billion browsers and mobile browsers and Internet of Things devices allowing OISTE root to be ubiquitous and universal when receives the public key from web certification authorities worldwide.
OISTE calls on other NGOs and UN Member States to work towards the requirement that Internet has to articulate the “right to disappear” into its design. This means that individuals will be empowered to manage their personal information, including the possibility of deleting personal data if they do not want it to linger in cyberspace. This in compliance with the Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks”.
More information
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Press Contacts:
OISTE
press@OISTE.ORG
Tel. +41 22 594 30 02

To be or not to be identified: Hamlet’s quandary in the digital era

wisekeyProduct — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:59:50 +0000

The Internet Society is organising a thematic workshop at the WSIS Forum on 16 May 2013 from 11:00 am to 12:45 in Room M of the International Telecommunication Union, Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
Registration:
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Remote participation:
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Thematic Workshop: To be or not to be identified
Organized by: Internet Society (ISOC)
Session link: http://www.wsis.org/forum/agenda/agenda.html?se=105

This interactive session will explore how individuals portray themselves on the Internet and how others perceive them. It will consider the implications of identity, anonymity, pseudonymity and authentication for Internet participation and governance.

How are individuals “identifiable” on the Internet? Are they aware how others perceive them? To what extent can individuals render themselves less “identifiable”?
Should individuals have the right to go online anonymously/pseudonymously? What conditions (if any) should such a right have?
Are “throwaway identities” really disposable?
Is the next big thing “Bring Your Own Identity”? What might this look like?
Is there a future in “Internet cash”?

Panellists

Susan Chalmers, Policy Lead, InternetNZ
Petru Dumitriu, Head of the Council of Europe Office in Geneva and Permanent Observer to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
Xianhong Hu, Division for Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Communication and Information Sector, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Danil Kerimi, Head of Information and Communications Technology – Government Community, World Economic Forum
Paul Mitchell, General Manager, Technology Policy, Microsoft
Patrick Ryan, Public Policy & Government Relations Counsel for Free Expression and International Relations, Google
Carlos Moreira, Founder and Secretary-General of the International Organization for the Security of Electronic Transactions, OISTEModeratorChristine Runnegar, Director, Public Policy, Internet Society

Thematic Workshop: To be or not to be identified
Organized by: Internet Society (ISOC)
Session link: http://www.wsis.org/forum/agenda/agenda.html?se=105

WISeKey and FC Barcelona Launch “FCB connect ”: One App, One Ecosystem for Millions of Followers

wisekeyProduct — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:11:35 +0000

Geneva, March 26th 2013 – Millions of fans and followers worldwide for football clubs, dozens of players with several social media accounts, leading to a fragmented communication ecosystem between clubs, players and people living their passion.
Today, Information security specialist WISeKey and Football Club Barcelona launched the “FCB Connect” application. A key mobile application allowing football lovers to follow any Tweet or Facebook post from FCB star players, even those without a social account, avoiding all the noise and providing real-time interaction with their favorite players. Users can also have fun comparing their resemblance to players with the biometric feature.
“We are delighted to work with FC Barcelona on this great new app,” said WISeKey founder and CEO Carlos Moreira.
First sport Club in the World to launch this mobile way for its fans to follow their star players, the FCB bets on social interactions between supporters of large sports clubs and their players. Based upon the technology and business rules of WISeID (World Internet Social Electronic Identification), a revolutionary business strategy designed to engage the brand supporter in collaborative conversations to provide mutually beneficial value in a trusted and transparent environment.
Dídac Lee, board member, director of FC Barcelona technology, added: “In this global world where everything happens by smartphone, FC Barcelona has made a firm commitment to approach their followers through their device. Initiatives such as this allow the fans, wherever they are, to take their club in their pocket.”
“FCB Connect” goes one step further in the massive trend of sport fans digital socialization, before, during and after matches. A future way of taking advantage of new mobile facilities in sport stadiums.
“The FCB WISeID community is the culmination of several development years by WISeKey to reinforce digital marketing strategies for football clubs”, explained Carlos Moreira.

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Contact:

FC Barcelona
Communication
premsa@fcbarcelona.cat
WISeKey SA
Pedro Fuentes – VP eSecurity.
info@wisekey.com
0041 22 594 30 00

WISeKey joining Davos as the Forum Starts to Change the Conversation around Cyber Security towards Cyber Resilience as a critical economic enabler

wisekeyProduct — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:26:19 +0000

DAVOS, Switzerland, January 24, 2013 – WISeKey a Global Growth Company Partner of the World Economic Forum is joining again this year the 2013 Annual Meeting in Davos as a role model for innovative cyber-security technology and efforts to protect infrastructures, objects, individuals, businesses, and governments on the Internet.
Digital connectivity of people, objects and infrastructure is transforming industries for huge social and economic gain. These gains are being driven not only through greater efficiencies, but through completely new business and social engagement models. From the connected car to smart cities, from energy infrastructure to air travel, from cashless banking in places like Kenya to on-the-spot market prices for farmers in developing economies, we are witnessing an explosion of innovation and excitement around the potential of technology centred not solely in Silicon Valley, but across industries and individuals everywhere.
WISeKey is championing the ever-changing landscape of cyber-security and how the PKI and Cyber-security segment of WISeKey lead the industry in reinventing PKI and Trusted Computing as a support to Cyber-Resilience. In 2013, WISeKey plans to make its digital identification and encryption technology more easily accessible through its technical advancements, bringing the entire technology suite to trusted clouds. This will allow WISeKey to help more organizations, in different markets and sectors, improve globally their resilience against counterfeiting, cyber-attacks, digital identification and traceability of objects. Our industry is on the brink of a major transformation as a more mature, balanced agenda is emerging, along with some basic insights that are guiding growing numbers of organizations and nations worldwide.There is lots of innovation and collaboration emerging around different regions and industries to tackle these issues. One initiative at the World Economic Forum, Partnering for Cyber Resilience, is providing a platform for companies and governments to come together and learn from each other in a safe environment.
The number of connected devices via the upcoming Internet of Things requiring digital identification and security in the world now tops 4 billion and continues to rise rapidly to reach 50 billion by 2020. This trend shows that Swiss neutrality provided by WISeKey is a key asset in ensuring data protection for enterprises and consumers.
Social networks compile data daily with no international regulations on personal privacy. The gap between a person and a digital identity leaves millions vulnerable to dangers beyond identity theft. “There isn’t anything built into the Web that can verify who you are,” says Carlos Moreira, WISeKey CEO. “WISeKey’s systems have been the closest thing for years. WISeID (http://www.wiseid.com/) is the first global answer to this problem.”
This is a key differentiator for our Company as these new applications and mobile social networks are compiling data daily, but there are no international regulations on how to protect consumers. So although abuse is inevitable, Switzerland can help. Data flows globally, but privacy laws are a matter of geopolitics.
The growth of cloud computing highlights the complexity of data sovereignty: data can be stored virtually anywhere but it has a physical presence somewhere in the world. This location operates under a jurisdiction whose laws could have unexpected impact on the availability or ownership of data.
WISeKey together with over 70 companies and government bodies across 15 sectors and 25 countries have joined forces to create the World Economic Forum’s Partnering for Cyber Resilience initiative in 2012. Together, the leaders of these organizations have signed a set of principles, which demonstrate their commitment to taking an integrated, strategic approach to technology risks and opportunities, and to play their role in providing a resilient digital environment for all.
Contact:
WISeKey SA
Marketing & Communications
mpiletta@wisekey.com
+41 22 594 30 00

WISeKey launches the WISeID Cyber-Resilience Special Edition app during the Davos Swiss Night at the World Economic Forum 2013

wisekeyProduct — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:34:23 +0000

Davos, 23rd January 2013 – WISeKey will be launching the WISeID Cyber-Resilience edition for iOS at Davos to help Internet users strengthen the security and reliability of their mobile communications and transactions. The WISeID Cyber-Resilience edition can create an accountable identity from its personal data organizer, which securely stores personal data such as account username and passwords, credit card numbers and access PINs in a secure vault and cloud.
WISeID can enhance the legitimacy of what we do and say online by providing accountable identities and protection from identity theft by safely managing passwords and social credentials in its encrypted vault.
The vault can be unlocked only by using the user’s Master Password and/or defined pattern, with additional face recognition authentication protection. WISeID conveniently keeps passwords in one place, generates hard-to-crack ones, and safely synchs data between computers and devices on multiple platforms using secure cloud storage. With simple one-click website access, WISeID is a great choice for extra personal security.
When it comes to the extra minute or two added security measures will take, WISeKey advises it’s not a lot to spend when you consider the value of personal information. Complex passwords, encryption and using a password manager may seem like overkill, but in the world of data security, there is no such thing as too secure.
WISeID Cyber-Resilience edition is available now on iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac OSX, Windows and Kindle, http://www.wiseid.com

Blessed entrepreneurs | BILAN

wisekeyProduct — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:37:35 +0000

During the early 1990s, Western Switzerland’s economy went through a gloomy period. Yet at the same time, in one of its most prominent labs at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, visionary IT scientists were honing an innovation that would change the face of the planet: the World Wide Web.
Like other regions of the world, Western Switzerland quickly adopted the communication revolution triggered by the Web – and even quicker the frenzy of new commerce, new businesses, new everything that followed. Like elsewhere, the bubble inflated, and then burst. But something of critical importance came to stay: entrepreneurship.
The Internet bubble’s promises were not only technological. There was something of a new social contract embedded in the Web, a change in mindset that said: take risks, be entrepreneurial, pioneer and keep the faith. Unlike in many other places, this entrepreneurial mindset remains in Western Switzerland. It grows even stronger when people start noticing that the region is home to Logitech, the only European company that has made it in the highly competitive hardware business, home too to Nagra-Kudelski, one of the global leaders in IT security – and the new home for the European headquarters of famous IT companies such as Yahoo! or Computer Associates.
Thanks to these powerhouses and to the first start-up successes such as Lysis, Le Shop and WISekey, a generation of entrepreneurs has taken root. Along with the numerous SMEs that for years have had a pioneering presence in local and international markets,as you’ll discover in our company profiles section, this new generation of entrepreneurs is now looking to become leaders in the worldwide development of IT.
Now there is a new opportunity – we are again at a turning point in the information revolution. Just as the PC and client/server architecture replaced the mainframes, the mobile Internet is now giving way to a tectonic shift in the very way information technologies are structured. ‘Thin clients’ like smart phones, tablets and netbooks, hungry for processing and memory resources in the Internet, are paving the way for the development in cloud computing (see page 26). Entrepreneurs now find that IT resources that were once the preserve of large corporations are now accessible in cost-efficient ways. Meanwhile, the ‘Software as a Service’ products they are developing can be deployed on multiple platforms from desktops to mobile phones.
There is a second opportunity for them: Western Switzerland’s research institutions are nurturing original technologies in robotics, human-machine interaction (see Frederic Kaplan on page 36 or IDIAP’s voice research on page 40) and security. That research is giving birth to highly original applications with a sharp competitive edge in the world market.
Their third opportunity comes from the visionary scientists in the region who are now anticipating the outcome of today’s faster-than-ever development of ICT. Energy is the key issue, driven by the continuing Internet-fed growth in data volumes and the need for batteries in mobile devices. These scientists are now launching leading projects in green IT (see page 18). They will become key competitive differentiators, and are already attracting major players. Increasingly, Western Switzerland’s researchers are behaving like risk-taking entrepreneurs, cementing the change in mindset.
Those opportunities are making Western Switzerland a thrice-blessed location for the IT entrepreneurs of today and tomorrow.

WISeKey has Been Named one of the 2012 Global Growth Companies at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin China Starting Next Week

wisekeyProduct — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:39:29 +0000

GENEVA, September 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —
WISeKey is being recognized as a role model for its innovative technology and revolutionary corporate mission. As part of the participation WISeKey Founder and CEO Carlos Moreira is invited to attend a special closed-door session hosted by Premier Wen Jiabao for select members attending the event.
“We are honoured that the World Economic Forum has nominated again this year WISeKey as a Global Growth Company. This is recognition that WISeKey is making a profound contribution to protecting personal data and to allowing millions equipped with WISeKey technologies to perform highly secure social interactions, payments and cyber security related transactions over the trusted Internet, WISeKey is deploying,” said Carlos Moreira.
WISeKey is recognized as a role model for innovative digital identification and cyber-security technology to protect individuals, businesses, and governments on the Internet. The Forum ranks cyber-attacks as one of the top five risks in the world.
The growth of social networking and cloud computing highlights the complexity of data sovereignty: data can be stored virtually anywhere but it has a physical presence somewhere in the world. This location operates under a jurisdiction whose laws could have unexpected impact on the availability or ownership of data.
Social networks compile data daily with no international regulations on personal privacy. The gap between a person and a digital identity leaves millions vulnerable to dangers beyond identity theft. “There isn’t anything built into the Web that can verify who you are,” says Kevin Blackman WISeKey CTO. “WISeKey’s systems have been the closest thing for years. (Xanax) WISeID (http://www.wiseid.com/) is the first global answer to this problem.”
http://www.weforum.org/community/global-growth-companies
Contact:
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E-Mail: info@wisekey.com
Tel.: +41-22-594-30-00
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WISeKey Launches WISeID Generation C at the Sixth Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh

wisekeyProduct — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:42:43 +0000

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – WISeKey launches the WISeID special edition app designed for “Generation C” and coordinates its release with the participation of Carlos Moreira at the Sixth Annual Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF). Hundreds of business leaders, politicians, and intellectuals will converge in Riyadh from January 21-24 to take part in the GCF 2012 probing ideas around competitiveness.
Mr. Moreira, WISeKey Founder and CEO, will speak at the panel session “Generation C – Click, Connect, Communicate, Collaborate” which will discuss the future of digital connectivity and business dependence on the virtual world. Mr. Moreira will showcase WISeKey’s WISeID, which creates a unique digital ID for an individual, like a passport to be used on the Internet.
WISeID ‘Generation C’ is designed to support the “digital natives” demographic, those who turn to the Internet instinctively and actively participate in social media where they contribute to discussions and share ideas. “Generation C” value their expanded universe, but they are also vigilant about maintaining control over their lives and their personal identifiable information (PII).
WISeID adds the fifth “C” for “Confidentiality” as the app’s data encryption helps protect its owner’s PII as they actively participate in the virtual world, on social networks, making electronic transactions and communications.
Download WISeID ‘Generation C’: http://bit.ly/wiseidgenc
Mr. Moreira will speak Sunday, January 22 at “Generation C – Click, Connect, Communicate, Collaborate”: http://bit.ly/xKVrI0
Mr. Moreira discusses Generation C: http://www.youtube.com/wisekeysa

About WISeKey
Established in 1999 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, WISeKey is a leading information security company, providing specialized technologies for effective identity management and authentication to secure communications and transactions without compromising trust. Visit https://www.wisekey.com.
Contact:
WISeKey SA
Eileen Weinberg
Marketing and Communications
eweinber@wisekey.com
+41-22-594-30-00