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Cryptzone AB (publ) is a publicly traded company located in Sweden. The company changed its name in the summer of 2007 from Secured eMail to Cryptzone[1], to better suit the company's new offering. In late 2007 (November - December,) Cryptzone issued new shares in preparation for the listing on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (First North list), which took place on the 4th of February 2008. The company is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, and employs 27 people. Cryptzone has offices in Gothenburg, Stockholm, Munich, and New York City.

[edit] Secured eMail

In 2003, Peter Davin and Rami Avidan founded Secured eMail, a company that would focus solely on encrypting email from point A to point B (also known as end to end encryption). It's main competitors at the time were PGP Corporation, Voltage and Utimaco. The difference and the competitive endge lied in the encryption methodology. In 2005, Secured eMail had grown to include large investors such as Gylling Invest AB[2], and the employee count was in the 20's.

[edit] Changing focus and product offering

In order to compete with companies not offering only email encryption and to compete in the Data Leak Prevention (DLP) space, Secured eMail needed to enhance its product offering. First out was Secured eFile (was initially called Secured eF2) - a file encryption solution based on right-clicking files or folders and choosing to encrypt them. Secured eUSB was launched next. A product that aimed at making your non-encrypted USB flash drive, into an encrypted one. The strength, Cryptzone claims, lies in the operation. You insert the USB flash drive into the computer, and the software will automatically launch and ask you to secure it. Secured eDisk Protect for full hard disk encryption and based on Protect Drive by SafeNet Inc, was released next and thus, completed the encryption product offering. Secured eMail next released a product aimed solely at the corporate enterprise, titled Secured eControl, based on their partnership with Workshare. Secured eControl's job was to work alongside Secured eMail (the product) that scans outgoing messages and its attachments, looking for information that shouldn't be sent unencrypted. HIPAA is just one of the federal laws in the US that demands this feature so that one can be sure to not accidentally send anything sensitive non-secured.

Secured eMail as a company now had a full offering of encryption products and information control in its portfolio, and the name Secured eMail did not fit anymore. The name Cryptzone was adopted in September of 2007.

[edit] Simple Encryption Platform

In early 2007, Simple Encryption Platform (SEP) was coined by (now) Cryptzone, and all products from Cryptzone are now based upon this platform. According to Cryptzone, the platform has been widely adopted by companies all over the world because of its flexibility. The idea behind the platform is to not force a user to install products, but to install the logic that makes them possible instead. When a user for instance wishes to have email encryption, the user updates their license key information and the product is automatically installed. SEP is intended to be a platform that other technologies and products can "tap in to".

[edit] Products in SEP

  • Secured eControl[3]
  • Secured eDisk Protect[4]
  • Secured eFile[5]
  • Secured eMail[6]
  • Secured eUSB[7]

[edit] Email encryption technology

Encryption of email with Secured eMail is done with the Advanced Encryption Standard 256 bit. The system differ from PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)-based solutions however, in that the user or server does not exchange keys, as Secured eMail uses a system called System SKG[8]. System SKG is used for generation and handling of the keys. SKG generates dynamic "one-time" session-keys that are 20 bytes (160 bits) long, also using SHA-1. It then uses SHA-2 to scramble together multiple of these SKG keys with static seeds that are unique for the sender and receiver with something which Cryptzone calls a "shared secret". The biggest difference between System SKG and PKI-based email encryption, is that with PKI you most often need a trusted third-party, also known as a CA (Certificate Authority)

[edit] Competitors

As Cryptzone went in to the Data Leak Prevention space, the number of competitors also went up. They now not only include those who produce email encryption products

[edit] Cryptzone Partners

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Secured eMail unveils new corporate identity as Cryptzone
  2. ^ Gylling Invest AB invests in Secured eMail
  3. ^ Secured eControl
  4. ^ Secured eDisk Protect
  5. ^ Secured eFile
  6. ^ Secured eMail
  7. ^ Secured eUSB
  8. ^ Secured eMail technology page
  9. ^ Workshare Partner listing
  10. ^ Workshare partnership press release
  11. ^ SafeNet Partner listing
  12. ^ SafeNet partnership press release

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