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Senetas secures new Australian Government deal

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.