MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- WidePoint
Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY), a leading provider of Managed Mobility
Services (MMS) specializing in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications
Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, announced today that it is
engaged with SPYRUS on two pilot programs using the SPYRUS WorkSafe
Pro Microsoft Windows To Go® solution. The
pilots with two federal agencies highlight the need many
organizations have for trusted mobile devices that guarantee device
identity, personal identity, and secure network access from any
global location.
The pilots have the potential to grow to several thousands of
devices, will feature SPYRUS WorkSafe Pro Microsoft Windows To Go
live drives and leverage WidePoint Certificate-on-Device secure
solutions. The integrated solution addresses a marketplace that is
estimated over the next several years to be worth upwards of
hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
"We are pleased to see these pilots initiated after our recently
announced collaboration with SPYRUS to bring to market and deliver
the industry's first trusted mobile device that guarantees device
identity, personal identity, and secure network access from any
global location," said John
Atkinson, WidePoint's Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. "We
believe these pilots are just the tip of the iceberg and that the
federal government alone will present an opportunity for several
instances of at least 100,000 devices each, and that's without
addressing the global enterprise marketplace."
The SPYRUS WorkSafe Windows To Go live drives allow employees
and contractors traveling and teleworking to boot-up their full
Windows operating system, bypassing the host computer's hard drive
without impacting the host and leaving no footprints when the drive
is removed from the host device. WidePoint digital certificates can
be used to manage identity credentials and provide additional
security features such as two-factor authentication, smart card
logon, secure VPN, encrypted email, digital signatures, and remote
revocation of certificates on lost or stolen drives.
"The partnership combination of WidePoint digital certificates
with the SPYRUS WorkSafe Pro live drives provides an
industry-unique hardware-protected chain of trust solution to
secure endpoint Windows To Go computing configurations and meets a
critical market demand. The SPYRUS FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated
security controller in the WorkSafe Pro platform pioneers the only
USB live drive capability with integrated PKI security services
"said Tom Dickens, SPYRUS COO.
"These Microsoft-certified SPYRUS drives with WidePoint
Certificate-on-Device, when combined with the SPYRUS Enterprise
Management System for remote device control, offer the strongest
end-to-end cryptographic protection against infiltration and
exfiltration attacks from unauthorized masquerading USB drives or
users connecting to a mobile computing
infrastructure."
"WidePoint is honored to be collaborating with SPYRUS on these
two projects and looks forward to working on new opportunities with
them as we provide the marketplace with secured solutions that
solve many of the problems organization face in today's complex
mobile world," said, Steve Komar,
WidePoint's CEO. "We believe the time is ripe for our
Certificate-on-Device secure solutions to be integrated with our
partners' various mobile devices and solutions as we work together
to solve the myriad problems organizations face in addressing the
convergence of security and mobility. We look forward to starting
work on a number of enterprise opportunities with our partners as
we enter 2015."
About SPYRUS, Inc.
SPYRUS delivers innovative encryption solutions that offer the
strongest protection for data in motion, data at rest and data at
work. For over 20 years, SPYRUS has delivered leading
hardware-based encryption, authentication, and digital content
security products to government, financial, and health care
enterprises. To prevent the insertion of untrusted components,
patented Secured by SPYRUS™ security technology is proudly
designed, engineered, and manufactured in the USA to meet FIPS 140-2 Level 3 standards.
SPYRUS has collaborated closely with Microsoft to deliver the first
certified hardware encrypted portable platform for Windows 7,
Windows 8, and Window 8.1. SPYRUS is headquartered in San Jose, California. See www.spyruswtg.com
for more information.
About WidePoint
WidePoint (NYSE Mkt: WYY) is a leading provider of secure,
cloud-delivered, enterprise-wide information technology-based
solutions that can enable enterprises and agencies to deploy fully
compliant IT services in accordance with government-mandated
regulations and advanced system requirements. WidePoint has several
major government and commercial contracts. For more information,
visit www.widepoint.com.
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