NASA/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.
and ZEPHYR COVE, Nev.,
July 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Public Safety Information Sharing and Analysis Organization
(ISAO), a critical cyber advisor to enhance public safety
sectors (i.e. Police Agencies and Fire Departments) ability to
combat cybercrime and cyber enabled crime, and VirnetX Holding
Corporation (NYSE AMERICAN: VHC), a leader in Internet
communication security software and technology, jointly announced
today that the Public Safety Information Sharing and Analysis
Organization is adopting the VirnetX Gabriel Collaboration Suite to
facilitate secure communications with its member network.
"There are approximately 18,000 police agencies and 27,000 fire
departments in the U.S., and our intent is to use Gabriel to
securely communicate with them," said Jim
Emerson, Public Safety ISAO Director. "Gabriel is easy
to install and use on a variety of computer and mobile
devices. It's cost effective and advanced in terms of end to
end encryption and DNS security."
"The Public Safety ISAO has a vital role to play in advising our
public safety first responders about fighting cybercrime," said
Kendall Larsen, VirnetX CEO and
President. "We share in the importance of their mission and
are confident that Gabriel will provide a secure environment for
practitioners and agencies to interact, collaborate, and
share."
About Public Safety ISAO
The Public Safety ISAO is to provide public private
collaborative cyber data and service solutions which address public
safety needs by partnering widely with private sector stakeholders
to deliver critical cyber capabilities at little or no cost to
public safety agencies and organizations. Strategic
initiatives to accomplish this include:
Implementation of the Global Accredited Registry and Registrar
Data Access Network (GARDANET); Ensuring Public Safety unfettered
access to Whois data post GDPR implementation.
Development of a Cyber COMPSTAT Framework for Information
Sharing which is driven by Public Safety domain intelligence needs
versus the all too often "firehose approach."
Creation of a Digital Evidence Technical and Legal Knowledge
Sharing Environment permitting Public Safety to benefit from common
awareness through global collaboration.
For more information go to https://psisao.org/
About ISAOs
ISAOs, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, are
owners and operators of critical infrastructure, relevant agencies,
and other public- and private-sector stakeholders through a
voluntary consensus standards development process to identify a
common set of voluntary standards and guidelines for the creation
and functioning of ISAOs. These standards address, but are not
limited to, contractual agreements, business processes, operating
procedures, technical specifications, and privacy protections.
ISAOs advise on best practices and lessons learned from
existing Information Sharing and Analysis Centers and other
information sharing organizations.
The establishment of ISAOs allows communities of interest to
share cyber threat information with each other on a voluntary
basis, resulting in an effective ISAO Ecosystem. ISAOs may also, if
they choose, participate in existing federal cybersecurity
information sharing programs, providing access to near-real-time
cyber threat indicators. The goal is to create deeper and broader
networks of information sharing nationally that foster the
development and adoption of automated mechanisms for the sharing of
information to elevate the security of the Nation. For more
information, please visit https://www.isao.org/
About VirnetX Gabriel Collaboration Suite
Gabriel Connection Technology™ creates private and secure
networks using VirnetX Secure Domains that cannot be publicly
accessed through standard DNS. Gabriel Collaboration
Suite™, built on top of Gabriel Connection Technology, operates
within a client's secure domain as an easy to use, set of essential
applications, that allow businesses and their employees to easily
communicate and collaborate with their peers in a secure,
end-to-end encrypted environment. The essential applications
include, Secure Mail, Secure Messaging, Secure Voice Call, Secure
Share & Sync and Secure Gateway Service, all accessible through
an integrated and easy to use interface on mobile or desktop
devices. VirnetX's Gabriel Secure Gateway Service allows users to
configure and remotely access all their private network services
without disclosing private network information or opening special
ports that can make them vulnerable to malicious hacking or
attacks. For more information about our products and
technology and how it can assist with achieving regulatory
compliance including HIPAA, please contact our sales at
sales@virnetx.com or go to
https://www.gabrielsecure.com/
About VirnetX
VirnetX Holding Corporation is an Internet security software and
technology company with patented technology for secure
communications including 4G LTE security. The Company's software
and technology solutions, including its secure domain name registry
and Gabriel Connection Technology™, are designed to facilitate
secure communications and to create a secure environment for
real-time communication applications such as instant messaging,
VoIP, smart phones, eReaders and video conferencing. The Company's
patent portfolio includes over 115 U.S. and international patents
and over 50 pending applications. For more information, please
visit www.virnetx.com
Forward Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not statements of
historical or current fact, including statements regarding
the strength of VirnetX's intellectual property, constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forward-looking statements are based on expectations, estimates and
projections about the markets in which the Company operates,
management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by management
and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
unknown factors that could cause the actual results of the Company
to be materially different from the historical results or from any
future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements, including but not limited to (1) the outcome of any
legal proceedings that have been or may be initiated by the Company
or that may be initiated against the Company, including pending and
future inter partes review proceedings in the Patent and Trademark
Office and appeals therefrom; (2) the ability to capitalize on the
Company's patent portfolio and generate licensing fees and
revenues; (3) the ability of the Company to be successful in
entering into licensing relationships with its targeted customers
on commercially acceptable terms; (4) potential challenges to the
validity of the Company's patents underlying its licensing
opportunities; (5) the ability of the Company to achieve widespread
customer adoption of the Company's Gabriel Communication
Technology™ and its secure domain name registry; (6) the level of
adoption of the 3GPP Series 33 security specifications; (7) whether
or not the Company's patents or patent applications may be
determined to be or become essential to any standards or
specifications in the 3GPP LTE, SAE project or otherwise; (8) the
extent to which specifications relating to any of the Company's
patents or patent applications may be adopted as a final
standard, if at all; and (9) the possibility that Company may be
adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive
factors. In addition to statements which explicitly describe
such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider
statements labeled with the terms "believes," "belief," "expects,"
"intends," "anticipates," or "plans" to be uncertain and
forward-looking. The forward-looking statements contained
herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties
that are described from time to time in the Company's reports and
registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including those under the heading "Risk Factors" in
Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
May 10, 2018. Many of the
factors that will determine the outcome of the subject matter of
this press release are beyond the Company's ability to control or
predict. Except as required by law, the Company is under no
duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date
of this press release to conform to actual results.
Contacts:
Public Safety ISAO
James Emerson
407.480.2747
james.emerson@psisao.net
VirnetX Holding Corporation
Investor Relations
775.548.1785
ir@virnetx.com
VirnetX, Gabriel Collaboration Suite, Gabriel Secure
Communications Platform and GABRIEL Connection Technology are
trademarks of VirnetX Holding Corporation. Other company and
product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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