Spitfire StoreSafe and SOA servers nominated Best Enterprise Security Solutions in SC Awards 2006

HONG KONG SAR, PRC - Nov 7, 2005, Hong Kong - Bloombase Technologies announced today the company's Spitfire StoreSafe and SOA servers are nominated Best Enterprise Security Solutions in SC Awards 2006.

Spitfire StoreSafe protects corporate and user persistence data by strong encryption. Addressing security and corporate governance compliance requirements including GLB Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Personal Privacy Ordinance, etc, Spitfire StoreSafe is designed to transparently protect real-time storage data on-the-fly from unauthorized disclosure and alteration without sacrificing performance. Spitfire StoreSafe is created to address growing security problems and paradigm shift of corporate digital data theft from company insiders since effective perimeter access control from outsiders and crackers. Internal corporate data disclosure affects company image and loss of confidential information can greatly harm enterprise goodwill and income. Spitfire StoreSafe protects data in network-attached storage (NAS), storage-area-network (SAN), tape devices and direct attached storage (DAS) supporting virtually all hardware platforms and operating systems. Spitfire StoreSafe is a standalone storage appliance with hardware accelerated cryptographic capability to encrypt storage data as they are written to storage device and decrypt as they are read. Spitfire StoreSafe is built-in with NIST-certified secure cryptographic ciphers including FIPS-197 AES, FIPS-46-3 3DES, DES, RC2, RC4 and CAST5. Upgrade of ciphers can be done easily via a web-based user interface. Spitfire StoreSafe can run in a cluster to achieve high-availability. Spitfire StoreSafe protects databases, corporate digital assets, user files, business and financial data, archives, invaluable intellectual property, user credentials and email storage from prying eyes and tampering.

Spitfire SOA is a cryptographic appliance specifically designed for XML security processing in service oriented architecture (SOA), electronic data interchange (EDI) and enterprise application integration (EAI) systems. It protects sensitive and confidential information from unwanted disclosure and unauthorized tampering during transmission between business partners or enterprise applications via the Internet, extranet or intranet. Spitfire SOA is equipped with international cryptographic standard ciphers and processing handlers. It generates and verifies digital signatures and encrypts/decrypts message-based data via industrial standard FTP, SMTP and HTTP connectivities. Spitfire SOA comes with programmable interfaces including plain socket, Java RMI and web services suiting integration requirements for all messaging systems. Spitfire SOA can be configured to run as a cluster to avoid single-point of failure in disastrous scenarios. Spitfire SOA helps enterprises meet requirements of GLB Act, Sarbanes Oxley Act and Personal Privacy Ordinance at low cost and efficiency.

The SC Awards, voted on by a panel of judges from the information security industry, recognize technical security excellence in key business sectors. Award winners will be announced on March 6, 2006 in Singapore.

About SC Awards

The SC Awards celebrate the best products, services and people in the information security world. Each year those companies that have made an outstanding contribution to the industry through their products and services are recognised and rewarded. The awards are now entering their eighth successful year - which is a huge length of time in the world of information security – and are staged at a major West End hotel in London during the Infosec exhibition each April. SC Magazine readers and information security product users vote for the Reader Trust Awards. The SC Awards Council consists of senior, international IT professionals, and they vote on awards for excellence. An independent judging panel decides on the Judges' Awards and the main sponsor presents their special Principal Awards on the night. For more information, please visit http://www.scawards.com