Cryptek

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Cryptek, Inc

Type	Privately-owned
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Dulles, VA, USA
Key people	Bill Anderson, CEO
Industry	Information Security
Website	http://www.cryptek.com

Cryptek is a company that develops and sells information security products and services to governments and corporations. Cryptek is headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, USA.

1 History
2 Products
3 See Also
4 External Links
5 References

[edit] History

Cryptek was founded in 1986 as Cryptek Secure Communications, Inc. At that time, the company designed and manufactured field-deployable, secure FAX machines for the military of the United States. In 1988, Cryptek was acquired by General Kinetics, a manufacturer of secure enclosures and other products. In 1993, General Kinetics also acquired Verdix, a manufacturer of secure computer networking equipment for the government of the United States.

In 1996, private equity firm Angelo Gordon acquired the FAX and secure networking businesses of General Kinetics. The company continued to operate as Cryptek Secure Communications, LLC. ^[1]. The company simplified its name to Cryptek, Inc. in 2002.

In 2006, Cryptek went through a corporate restructuring in which Bill Anderson became the President and CEO. In 2007, Cryptek acquired four companies: Secure Systems Group of Sterling, Virginia, USA, Emcon Emanation Control Ltd of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,^[2] Secure Systems & Technology (SST) of Gloucester, United Kingdom and ION Networks of South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA.

[edit] Products

Cryptek develops and sells three lines of products:

• Secure Remote Management Systems - A suite of products to control and manage vendor remote access on enterprise networks. These products are provided under the ION Networks brand name.

• Secure Network Access Systems – A suite of products to control and manage user access to networks, systems and information on enterprise networks. These products are provided under the DiamondTEK brand name.

• Emanation Security – A suite of computing and communications products that conform to various government standards for electronic emanation control known as TEMPEST. These products are provided under the Cryptek, Emcon and SST brand names.