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MasterCard International, NTRU, and RSA Security Address Embedded Security Challenges at CEES Symposium

Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security Hosts More Than 40 Companies; Examines Security Ownership and Trust Models for Consumer Applications

Boston, MA - July 12, 2001 - The Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security (CEES) challenged industry leaders and spearheaded efforts to define new standards for highly efficient, highly scalable security models for consumer applications. At the CEES Symposium: Security Ownership & Trust Models for Securing Consumer Applications on Tuesday, July 10th, industry visionaries exchanged ideas, defined requirements, and gained a better understanding of roles within the value chain for delivering secure solutions and trust models for systems incorporating devices with embedded security.

"The widespread and growing proliferation and use of consumer devices mandates that we carefully explore the underlying security architectures supporting the applications on those devices," said Dr. Daniel Lieman, CEES Chair and NTRU Co-Founder. "There is an immediate and growing need for standardizations efforts to address basic questions around systems architectures, security ownership and trusted models, and CEES is working hard to make secure systems leveraging efficient embedded security a reality."

Security architects, applications developers, device manufacturers, content owners and users of embedded security technology and services shared corporate visions, debated issues and discussed emerging requirements and desired advances in security. The outcomes reinforced what is needed to create an open and secure platform on which to build systems that can support trusted products and services.

1. Many parties play a role in ensuring the security of a system and each has something to gain by making it work.
2. The fundamental specification of trust models will be a key consideration for achieving interoperability.
3. Industry collaboration is needed to protect not only businesses, but also consumers.

"With many vendors providing consumers with next generation wireless devices and services, there is a very strong need for interoperable security solutions," said Burt Kaliski, chief scientist at RSA Laboratories, the research center of RSA Security Inc. "As part of the CEES Symposium, we examined the challenges of embedded security and the development of trust associated with the process to better shape our understanding of device ownership."

"Many different companies are espousing the vision that small, compact wireless devices will allow consumers to efficiently make purchases and manage all types of their data," said Simon Pugh, Vice President, Standards & Infrastructure, e-Business and Emerging Technologies, MasterCard International. "Security should be transparent to the end user while interoperable with a range of technologies supported by multiple vendors involved in performing a transaction. The CEES Symposium brought us closer to defining a security standard for consumer applications and devices."

About CEES

The Consortium for Efficient Embedded Security (CEES) is a new and influential standards body, whose goal is to provide universal specifications for creating secure, interoperable implementations of highly efficient, highly scalable public-key security. The CEES is a cooperative multi-organizational effort with oversight and contributions from leading companies and academia. Charter members include representatives from Diversinet, Intel, MasterCard International, NTRU, Sony, and Texas Instruments.

For more information about CEES, visit www.ceesstandards.org.

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