Industry’s Most Comprehensive Backdoor Coverage Protects Enterprises from New Threats

Morristown NJ, March 5, 2009 - TM Forum, the world's premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications, media and defense sectors, confirmed today that more than 80 attendees representing 35 companies participated in a recent defense industry meeting to look at the role of TM Forum standards in managing defense networks. This significant gathering demonstrated the U.S. Department of Defense DISA’s commitment to the development and implementation of TM Forum best practices and standards in the industry.

The milestone meeting was co-hosted by TM Forum and MITRE, a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest as a federally funded research and development center. The meeting – held at MITRE’s offices in McLean, VA – forms an important building block in the development of the Forum’s Defense Interest Group, which was formed in June 2008.

Growing demand for voice security presents new channel opportunity 

4 March 2009 – Cellcrypt, the leading supplier of secure voice solutions, has appointed Zafirotech as a channel partner in South America.  Ecuador-based Zafirotech will be offering Cellcrypt’s advanced range of mobile and fixed line voice security solutions in Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

In contrast to traditional voice encryption systems that provide poor voice quality and usability, Cellcrypt has developed a new generation of end-to-end voice security solutions for commercially available PBX systems and mobile handsets. Based on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, Cellcrypt solutions deliver unparalleled voice quality with low latency, strong security and global coverage never before experienced.

Worthing 3^rd March 2009 - Pupils are using their PCs at home for two main reasons: online chatting and downloading and sharing music.  40percent admit that they have “chat buddies” who they do not know in real life, and half admit using peer-to-peer software (P2P) to download music illegally.  That’s according to research out today, which was conducted amongst 800 pupils in secondary schools over the last two years by UK-based IT security consultancy firm Global Secure Systems (GSS), as part of their participation in a scheme set up by (ISC)² with the support of Childnet International, where certified information security  professionals go into schools and talk to pupils about being safe and secure online.