TCS Completes Development of Web Guard

Digital Signature Technology Used to Ensure Secure Transfer of Critical Data

WASHINGTON, DC, December 2000 — Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc. (TCS) the industry leader in Information Security (INFOSEC) products and services, today announced that it has completed development of its new Web Guard secure document dissemination gateway.

TCS was commissioned by the National Security Agency to develop, using existing accredited TCS technology, a high assurance capability to implement via automation its new policy for the dissemination of classified documents from one security level to another lower level. The Web Guard will be used to securely transmit verified and digitally signed web data from Intelink on JWICS to Intelink-S on SIPRNET.

The NSA is currently canvasing the Intelligence Community for Beta sites to test out the new technology. Sites with requirements to pass large volumes of sanitized data (web or other) from one security level to another lower level (e.g., JWICS to SIPRNET) are prime candidates.

With the completion of the new product, TCS intends to market this new capability to the commercial world. The product solves two very common problems encountered in the business community: 1) the gateway restricts the dissemination of critical corporate data to only authorized, digitally signed documents, and 2) the use of digital signatures enforces data integrety and non-repudiation.


About Trusted Computer Solutions
TCS, headquartered in Herndon, VA, holds technical professional services contracts with numerous civilian and defense agencies. The company’s core capabilities include: system and network security assessments, system security engineering, design and development of secure systems solutions, secure communications, and INFOSEC applications.

Providing enterprise-level information security products and services since 1994, TCS’s flagship products are SecureOffice and TCSecure, which feature next generation security technology. Many DOD, sensitive Government agencies, and commercial organizations use the company’s products for its integrated authentication, encryption and high assurance protection of critical infrastructure information. TCSecure, targeted to the commercial world, is ideal for establishing secure Intranets to deploy secure business-to-business capabilities to make meaningful electronic commerce between partners a reality.

TCS personnel have worked on high profile security solutions that meet today’s requirements for high assurance security and TCS personnel helped develop the National Security Agency’s security analysis methodology for assessing system security and risk. TCS is the only commercial entity to successfully develop a commercial product based upon multilevel secure (MLS) technology, have it sponsored and fielded by numerous major Defense organizations, accredited by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and successfully profiled by the National Security Agency.

Product and security information, white papers and the company’s latest news releases may be accessed via TCS’s World Wide Web site at http://www.tcs-sec.com.

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TCS, TCSecure and/or other Trusted Computer Solutions products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks Trusted Computer Solutions in the U.S. and/or other countries. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Trusted Solaris and/or other Sun products are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein might be the trademarks of their respective owners. Certain TCS products include software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project (http://www.apache.org/).