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The TrustDefender software suite enables consumers to secure their online transactions and verify the trustworthiness of the websites they visit, while offering companies, banks, websites and government agencies a transactional security and integrity tool.
Founded in 2005, TrustDefender won a 2007 iAward in the Financial Applications category of the Australian Information Industry Association’s (AIIA) annual iAwards night held on May 30, 2007 at the Grand Harbour Ballroom at Sydney’s Exhibition and Convention Centre.
Ted Egan, CEO and co-founder of TrustDefender, said: “After so many years of work to develop and commercialise the TrustDefender suite of products, it’s wonderful to be recognised as an iAward winner for the innovation and potential that TrustDefender has to improve security worldwide in the online environment for consumers and enterprises alike.”
According to Egan, standard commercial and consumer security software is not enough to protect users when they go online these days.
“Today, the growth in online fraud is occurring due to the increasing incidence of highly sophisticated trojans, viruses and rootkits which operate on all sorts of computing devices,” Egan said. “The user will never be able to detect these sorts of nasties by simply using the current crop of browser based phishing filters, anti-virus, firewall or anti-spyware tools.”
“TrustDefender checks the user’s PC or mobile computing device security health before they commence any online activity, to ensure that the computer being used is safe and secure and their transaction won’t become a victim of the online fraudsters or identity thieves. Everyone who is banking online, paying bills or even shopping online needs to be able to get much better protection.”
TrustDefender is able to scan the security status of your PC and claims to be able to stop all viruses, malware, rootkits and other nasties from operating while you are carrying out your online transaction, using the secure lockdown, safe & secure mode, two factor authentication and its TrustedSurfing database.
The company also claims to be the world’s first security solution for online businesses to integrate the home user’s PC into the overall security solution and is aiming to get its software on computers worldwide – with, for example, banks offering TrustDefender to their customers free of charge.
While working on desktop and notebook PCs today, TrustDefender also aims to defend every online transaction on many different connected devices, including 3G capable smartphones and other devices.
Ted Egan and CTO Andreas Baumhof are currently in the US, and head to the UK and Europe next week on a roadshow to promote and sell the TrustDefender solution to financial institutions, online merchants and consumers.
The company says it is also meeting with leading security vendors overseas to discuss opportunities to work together, a number of whom have expressed renewed interest in TrustDefender following the iAward 2007 for Financial Applications.
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