Staff Writers
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 13:38
IT Industry -
Deals
Encryption hardware provider Senetas Corporation has won a deal to have its CypherNet encryption technology deployed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
ASIC, Australia’s corporate, markets and
financial services regulator, purchased a number of high speed
CypherNet encryptors to secure its computer networks.
Senetas CEO John DuBois said the purchase was made through Senetas
reseller, Fujitsu Australia and was the first sale made by Fujitsu
since the reseller partnership was established last September. The
encryptors are being delivered to ASIC this week.
Senetas CypherNet products, which the company claims are the world’s
only dual accredited (FIPS and EAL4) encryptors, are already in use
within a number of Australian Government agencies, including the
Australian Tax Office, Centrelink, Australian Federal Police and the
Australian Crime Commission.
Mr DuBois said Senetas was actively pursuing government business at
both a Federal and State level where government needed to secure data
in motion, including major financial transactions and
personally-identifiable information, such as health records.