San Francisco, California, Cannes France -- May 18, 2006
Navastream, Inc. the world leader in managed security products and services, today announced the introduction of its first global secure mobile cell phone targeted for the U.S. luxury consumer market, the Navastream Imperial Cipher Cryptophone ECB. The name ECB refers to Electronic Code Book, a particularly strong cipher mode of encryption with especially long key lengths of 256 bits AES(Advanced Encryption Standard). Navastream Imperial Cipher will market the products through a select group of resellers and luxury retailers throughout North America. According to Navastream CEO, Altura S. Ewers, “we see the biggest growth in the consumer market and government sector which has dramatically shifted from the traditional corporate markets, global financial institutions, executive branches and foreign heads of states. The new product brings a new form factor which functions as a truly mobile secure communication device with all standard features of high resolution digital camera, MP3 player, robust PDA functionalities and most importantly secure voice and email capabilities from any public GSM mobile network in the world.” The US consumer market has never been an attractive marketplace for secure personal communication devices, due to the lack of awareness of illicit eavesdropping capabilities, which is commonplace in the rest of the world. However, the recent revelations of ultra-secretive NSA (National Security Agency’s) domestic telephone monitoring program and the high profile Hollywood Wiretapping scandal involving “Private Eye of the Stars” Anthony “Pelican” Pellicano who was recently indicted on 112 charges of wiretapping and of paying policemen to illegally access law-enforcement databases reveals the real life dangers and negative financial consequences of not securing personal communications, when high dollar amounts are at stake. Ewers further added that “this shift in marketplace comes at an ideal time since earlier versions of secure personal communications devices were cumbersome, difficult to use with bad audio quality. Simply press the talk button and call members of your Closed User Group and the device does everything automatically including automatic generating of secret keys, Public Key exchange, then after the high audio quality call is finished, the secret key is electronically shredded from memory.” The easy to use Imperial Cipher ECB secure mobile personal communications device will be available directly from Navastream September 2006 and at select retailers and includes one year’s worth of secure concierge service and set-up support. The Imperial Cipher ECB is compatible with all previous Cryptophone GSM models and standard PSTN analog Cryptophones.
About Navastream
NAVASTREAM is the worldwide leader in managed security services (MSS), offering secure services for cell phone encryption, GSM encryption, video encryption, voice encryption, wireless encryption, mobile encryption, and data encryption sent over high speed communications infrastructures including ISDN, IP, ATM, and Gigabit-Ethernet. Navastream Imperial Cipher is a powerful product suite that provides exclusive communications security for executives and directors of private and public company and government institutions. Navastream ULTRA 2.5, the first and only comprehensive, automated system for corporate intelligence gathering, intellectual property protection, Blog control, and brand management. Navastream ULTRA gives companies the power to leverage a single automated solution across marketing, product development, and legal departments to consolidate intellectual property and brand management functions. The modules for our security services can be leased or purchased, and are remotely manageable via a central management interface. For more information please call +1 415 552 4192 or visit us on the web at www.navastream.com.
