Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline for BlackBerry Receives CESG CAPS Approval

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Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline for BlackBerry

Receives CESG CAPS Approval

PR Newswire

LONDON, June 26, 2012

LONDON

,

June 26, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

CAPS Approval allows UK Government departments to use Cellcrypt's encrypted

voice solution to meet their security needs up to Impact Level 3 / RESTRICTED

Cellcrypt (

http://www.cellcrypt.com

), a leading provider of encrypted voice

calling on mobile phones, today announced that Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ for

BlackBerry® has received CESG CAPS approval.

Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ for BlackBerry is certified at RESTRICTED/BASELINE

grade that allows UK Government departments to meet their Baseline security

needs.

CAPS (CESG Assisted Products Service) is a UK Cryptographic Evaluation Service

run by CESG, the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information

Assurance which provides policy and assistance on the security of

communications and electronic data for central government departments and

agencies, and the Armed Forces. CESG also helps protects the vital interests of

the UK's wider public sector, including law enforcement and local government,

as well as the essential services that form the UK's Critical National

Infrastructure.

Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ is a smartphone software application that provides

end-to-end voice call encryption on commercially available off-the-shelf

BlackBerry smartphones for UK Government. It is an easy-to-use software

application that makes secure calling as easy as making a normal mobile phone

call and uses the IP data channel of mobile (2G, 3G, and 4G) networks.

Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ comprises a handset application and a back-end

infrastructure. The BlackBerry smartphones have to be part of an IL3

deployment of the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution, also approved by CESG and

configured as per the CESG Security Procedures.

"Cellcrypt is committed to protecting the communications of Government

personnel. We are proud to provide our customers with a CESG-approved

secure mobile voice solution which is currently the only solution available to UK

Government officials who require an approved means of speaking about

sensitive matters on their BlackBerry smartphones," said Richard Greco, CEO of

Cellcrypt.

"In addition to the CESG-approved BlackBerry data solution, Cellcrypt's secure

voice application for BlackBerry smartphones provides an important additional

capability for our UK Government customers who rely on the BlackBerry

solution to secure their communications," said Stephen Bates, Managing

Director for UK and

Ireland

, Research In Motion. "This is a strong application

solution that is easy to deploy and is powerful enough to be certified to UK

Government security standards."

Cellcrypt Mobile Baseline™ is available immediately and can be demonstrated

today.

About CAPS (CESG Assisted Products Service)

CAPS helps private sector companies to develop cryptographic products for use

by Her Majesty's Government (HMG) and other related organisations. CAPS links

the cryptographic knowledge of CESG (the National Technical Authority for

Information Assurance) with the private sector's expertise and resources.

CAPS is a service for companies interested in commercial risk developments for

the UK government market, which provides access to CESG's knowledge, skills

and experience in the field of Information Assurance, supplemented by a range

of guidance documentation. CAPS vendors may incorporate appropriate CESG

cryptographic or public domain algorithms in their products and submit them

for evaluation by CESG. When approved, these products may be advertised as

suitable for purchase by Her Majesty's Government (HMG) as well as the UK

public sector.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cesg.gov.uk/servicecatalogue/CAPS/Pages/CAPS.aspx

.

About Cellcrypt

Cellcrypt is a leading provider of encrypted voice calling on commercial off-the-

shelf mobile phones including BlackBerry®, Android™, iPhone® and Nokia®

smartphones. It enables secure, interoperable calling between a broad

selection of popular mobile phones, and interfaces to office phone systems

(PBXs) that connect to landlines as well as securely accesses standard PBX

features such as voicemail, conference calling and calling out to the public

phone network.

Various other Cellcrypt technology components have information assurance

validations from other governments including FIPS 140-2 standard approved by

the US National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST). Cellcrypt Mobile

products operate over data-enabled networks including 2G (GPRS/EDGE), 3G

(HSPA, CDMA/EV-DO) and Wi-Fi™. Cellcrypt is a BlackBerry® Alliance Partner,

Inmarsat Connect Partner, and has AT&T Mobility Data Certification.

Today, Cellcrypt solutions are used routinely by governments, global

enterprises and their senior-level executives worldwide. Cellcrypt is a UK-based

privately-held, venture-backed company with offices in the UK,

USA

, and

Middle

East

.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cellcrypt.com

.

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