Pitney Bowes www.pb.com has created a partnership with Integra Systems for the embedding of their security evidence platform into medical application and solution offerings. We see a huge upside and major opportunity to drive forward to enhancing security offerings for healthcare.
Pitney Bowes has announced a product at CTIA this week in concert with BugLabs. They have been working on this for over a year. A new BUGbase, that they are calling BUGsecure, that includes a special tamper proof security chip. In summary this new chip, from Pitney Bowes, combined with their enterprise class key management services and the new Bug System gives customers a completely new, high security, trusted platform with which to prototype, pilot, and produce new innovative wireless devices, services and applications. This chip is the same one that lies at the heart of very Pitney Bowes mailing/postage machine whether it is a desktop unit or a room size system and secures over $5B in postage transactions every year world-wide. It called tamper proof, crytographic key store. FIPS 140-2 Level 3 Certified (Level 3 + EFP), FIPS 186-2, FIPS 180-2, FIPS 197, FIPS 46-3.
In essence, it provides an ultra high security source for encryption keys with which to sign data. This type of signature is essential for applications where the risk of fraud are high and/or the need for a bulletproof audit trail is required. For example many medical applications (think phamaceuticals, financial, regulatory, and safety use cases require this type of security. Software-level security frameworks and protocols, while suitable for many users, do not provide the level of certitude that a hardware key store does.
With so much attention being place on mobility and empowering individuals and machines with new information and processing power, the need for the highest levels of security is exploding.
