WISekey is the first e-security company in the world to offer decentralized Trust Models and PKI architecture allowing data ecosystems to be federated via a unique digital Identity that makes users interact while maintaining control of their personal data.
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With this new personal cloud alternative offered by WISeKey gone are the days of huge centralized clouds and ID meta systems with no respect to personal data. The trend WISeKey is creating is motivating users and enterprises to develop Personal Clouds and move the gravity center to users from centralized clouds, allowing them, toretake the control of their personal data.
This service is based on a local Trust Modelprovided by local data centers, increased security, and digital identification technologies to provide trusted secure services while maintaining neutrality and independency. The WISeKey Personal Cloud project is integrated into WiseID.com and was already announced this year at the World Economic Forum at Davos and portrayed by Bloomberg TV Bloomberg video demonstrating the importance for WISeKey using Swiss Alps mountain bunkers to storage personal data now directly from users’ desktops.
WISeKey’s WISeID offers a secured vault to protect personally identifiable information (PII). Protecting users PII is important to avoid impersonation and identity theft. The personal data that users save in WISeID always stays under users control, is encrypted with strong keys derived from a password that users choose and only the users know, and is never communicated to third parties.
WISeID offers users:
+ Secure powerful password management
+ Cross platform device support: iPhone®, iPad®, Android, Mac, Windows PCs, Kindle
+ FREE X.509 digital ID
+ Safe security: 256 bit AES, PBKDF2 encryption keys
+ Syncs data between devices.
Register to http://www.wiseid.com and create your personal cloud account.
Related links on WISeID Personal Cloud announcement with Swisscom at WMC 2014: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mobile-world-congress-wisekey-partners-130201664.html
Press contacts: WISeKey, Satu Kulmala, Tel +41 22 594 3005, skulmala@wisekey.com
WISeID Personal Cloud provides trusted digital identities via mobile and desktop apps for individuals and corporations performing confidential transactions on open Internet. The WISeID Cloud app is a set of online tools to empower the user by providing secure, authenticated, private digital identification and personal data storage on a Secure Vault on the Cloud. WISeID Personal Could version 5 launched today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona enables users to protect and sync their data and passwords across their personal mobile devices. The partnership with Swisscom covers that the encrypted personal authentication key is stored in Swisscom Data Centers in Switzerland (Swisscom Dynamic Storage solution). The WISeID Personal Cloud app is free but users will be requested to pay for incremental Personal Cloud storage usage.
“It is now evident that companies’ and individuals’ requirements for IT capacity, availability and data security are getting higher all the time. New concepts like dynamic computing make it possible for companies to respond more flexibly. Compliance requirements make it advisable to process and store data in Switzerland, and Swisscom fully complies with these requirements with its new generation datacenters in Switzerland”, says Stefan Lengarcher, Swisscom’s Dynamic Storage Product Manager.
“Looking to expand revenues and diversification on cyber security offerings, WISeKey launched the Personal Cloud concept during the World Economic Forum in Davos as we are predicting that 2014 is the year we will see personal clouds move the gravity center from application-centric to personal centric models where users will retake the control of their personal data. Gone are the days of huge centralized clouds and ID metasystems with no respect to personal data. The trend WISeKey is launching this year in cooperation with Swisscom is Personal Clouds. Developing localized personal cloud computing will localize and reduce the cost of the cloud technology. The offering is designed to complement WISeKey’s portfolio which currently includes encrypted mobile telephony, digital identification of people and objects (IoT) and cyber security resilience technologies” – Carlos Moreira, Founder/CEO, WISeKey.
About Swisscom
Swisscom is Switzerland’s leading telecom provider with its headquarters in Ittigen, close to the capital city, Berne. With over 20,000 employees it generated turnover of CHF 11.43 billion in 2013. Swisscom is one of the most sustainable companies in Switzerland and Europe.
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.
Press contacts: WISeKey, Satu Kulmala, Tel +41 22 594 3005, skulmala@wisekey.com ]]>