24 February 2010
Cellcrypt Wins Through To Final Round of Top European Industry Award
Shortlisted for Best Encryption Solution in SC Award
London, UK – 24th February –Cellcrypt, (www.cellcrypt.com), the leading provider of secure mobile voice calling, has been voted by panel of industry experts representing both major European and global brands a finalist in the highly prestigious 2010 SC Awards for the Best Encryption Solution. The category aims to highlight encryption solutions that answer a specific market need or application, as well as providing a clear business advantage to enterprises or SME’s who invest in the product or service.
Now entering its third decade, the SC Awards Europe is without peer. The awards are universally recognised as the most coveted and prestigious for the European information security industry. The SC Awards honour professionals working to secure enterprises and the vendor and channel communities that deliver innovative security technologies.
Cellcrypt Mobile™ leads the industry in providing an easy-to-use multi-layered security solution for standard smartphones that allows high-performance encrypted voice calls between trusted wireless devices. Cellcrypt’s R&D innovation resulted in the creation of Encrypted Mobile Content Protocol (EMCP), an Internet Protocol (IP) based technology that optimises the delivery of encrypted data between mobile devices delivering unparalleled voice quality, low voice delays, global coverage and intercontinental calling capability.
“We are honoured that Cellcrypt has been selected as a finalist for Best Encryption Solution in the 2010 SC Awards and congratulate the other finalists,” said Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Cellcrypt. “In the light of recent disclosures in the press, this SC Magazine Awards nomination recognises the increasing industry awareness surrounding the risk of mobile voice interception as well as Cellcrypt’s leading ability to deliver comprehensive mobile voice security.”
Winner of this year’s SC Awards will be announced at a gala dinner and award ceremony to be held in London on Tuesday 27th April.
Notes to Editors
Recent news of advances in mobile phone call hacking, include:
Announcement on Dec 27, 2009 that a codebook that cracks A5/1 GSM encryption – used in 80% of cell phones – had been computed and published on the web. Free for criminals to use, this lowers the cost of cell phone eavesdropping below $10,000.
Announcement on Jan 12, 2010 that a practical method for cracking A5/3 encryption used in 3G mobile phone calls was published by leading cryptographer, Adi Shamir (the ‘S’ in RSA).
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