2010 Mobile Merit Award Goes to CellTrust Corporation for its SecureSMS Messaging Solution

Posted by admin on 8/Jun/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

The Mobile Merit Awards recognise companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates today and have achieved excellence in the global mobile industry.

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA – June 8, 2010 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today the company has received the 2010 Mobile Merit Award in the Mobile Services, Enterprise Product or Service category, for its SecureSMS solution.The Mobile Merit Awards recognise companies, individuals and technologies that have shaped the way in which the world communicates today and have achieved excellence in the global mobile industry. The Mobile Merit Awards were founded by a seasoned team of mobile industry veterans, consisting of journalists, bloggers, and corporate CEOs.

(more…)

CellTrust Corporation Showcases SecureSMS Messaging and Secure Mobile Wallet Solutions at AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa Conference

Posted by admin on 12/May/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA – May 12, 2010 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today the company will showcase its SecureSMS messaging solution in the Mobile Money Hub at the AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa conference, May 11-12, 2010 in Lagos, Nigeria. The company will also highlight the special features of its data-based and menu driven Secure Mobile Wallet.

CellTrust’s SecureSMS platform has gained a strong foothold in Africa. The platform will enable banks and even other payment system providers to meet the stringent, new transmission channel security requirements of the Central Bank of Nigeria. In February of this year CellTrust launched its SecureSMS Mobile Banking and Payment Pilot for the African region through its partnership with Maxim-Pro Ltd. (www.maxim-pro.com), based in Lagos, Nigeria, to provide consumers the ability to make secure mobile cash transfers, payments and securely access other microfinance banking products. “CellTrust’s secure mobile banking platform is gaining significant momentum in Africa, where banks are cracking down on fraud and enforcing new security requirements for mobile financial management,” said Sean Moshir, Chairman and CEO of CellTrust. “CellTrust’s Secure Mobile platform brings significant value to the financial industry, as well as consumers in Africa, providing a secure and simple way to transfer money and make payments.”

(more…)

CellTrust Corporation Announces Partnership Strategy with Healthcare Provider Portals at HIMSS 2010

Posted by admin on 1/Mar/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

Initiative Will Accelerate Delivery of HIPAA Compliant, Secure Mobile Messaging to Hospitals, Medical Answering Services, Pharmacies, Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies.

ATLANTA and SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA – March 1, 2010 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today its strategy to partner with Healthcare Provider Portals to bring secure mobile messaging solutions to companies across the healthcare industry, by the third quarter of 2010. Ease of use and speed have made SMS the most popular communication tool on the handset today, eclipsing the volume of phone calls daily. But unfortunately, standard SMS is in clear text and is not encrypted, so it is not HIPAA-compliant. In booth #2317 at HIMSS, CellTrust’s Secure Mobile Healthcare team will showcase the company’s secure mobile healthcare solution, which turns standard SMS into a powerful, HIPAA-compliant tool, enabling healthcare organisations and vendors to communicate patient data via secure text messaging to clinicians’ and patients’ mobile devices. Over the next few months, CellTrust will work to integrate its SecureSMS technology into the existing solutions of the nation’s leading Healthcare Provider Portals.

(more…)

CellTrust Unveils SecureSMS Mobile Banking and Payment Pilot in Africa to Secure Branchless Banking for the Under & Un-banked

Posted by admin on 11/Feb/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

CellTrust Pilot Addresses the Central Banks’ Call for More Security

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – February 11, 2010. CellTrust Corporation (www.celltrust.com), the leading supplier of secure mobile messaging and applications, has announced the launch of its SecureSMS Mobile Banking and Payment Pilot for the African region.  CellTrust recently partnered with Maxim-Pro Ltd. (www.maxim-pro.com), based in Abuja, Nigeria, to secure and mobile enable their successful banking platform with the view to extending secure mobile banking and payment services to under and un-banked populations.

Within the first few months of operation, uptake is expected to be high for the new Secure SMS/Text Mobile Banking program launched via CellTrust’s Global SecureSMS Gateway. The pilot will allow end-users to make mobile cash transfers, payments and securely access other microfinance banking products.

(more…)

CellTrust Views 2010 as Mobile Security Milestone Year as Governments Regulators and Corporate Security Officers Evaluate How to Protect the Mobile Information Flow of Over 4 Billion Mobile Devices

Posted by admin on 10/Feb/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

CellTrust’s Early Predictions About Use of Agents and Apps on the Handset is Becoming a Reality; Company Sees Global Demand for SMS Security Increase Across Mobile Banking, Government and Healthcare Sectors to Reduce Fraud and Meet Compliance Requirements

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA - February 10, 2010 – Sean Moshir, Chairman of CellTrust Corporation (www.celltrust.com), the leading supplier of secure mobile messaging and applications, predicted in 2006 the eventual use of agents or apps on the handset and his predictions are now becoming reality. Long envisioning a world in which the mobile device will be crucial to validating identity, Moshir has been one of the industry’s leading advocates of the trusted exchange of relevant, often highly confidential, high-risk and personal data via the mobile device. CellTrust believes 2010 will be a milestone year for mobile security and SMS security in particular, as mobile devices and text messaging become more and more intrinsic to everyday life and work and cyber criminals move to this channel.

(more…)

CellTrust Signs Agreement with Maxim-Pro Ltd. to Provide SecureSMS for the Next Generation Secure Mobile Banking and Payment in Africa

Posted by admin on 19/Jan/2010 in Press Releases | 0 comments

CellTrust of Africa Delivers SecureSMS™ Appliance to one of Nigeria’s Leading Banking Platform Providers, Meeting the Central Bank of Nigeria’s New Security Requirements

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA and Abuja, Nigeria – January 19, 2010 CellTrust of Africa (www.africa.celltrust.com), the leading supplier of secure mobile messaging and applications (www.CellTrust.com), has provided Maxim-Pro Ltd. (www.maxim-pro.com) with a Secure Enterprise Messaging solution to secure and mobile enable their successful banking platform hile meeting the new requirements of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Maxim-Pro has partnered with CellTrust to extend secure mobile banking and payment services to Nigeria’s under and un-banked population through their extensive customer base across the financial services sector. An average of 100,000 subscribers are expected in the first six months of operation for the new Secure SMS/Text Mobile Banking program launched via CellTrust’s Global SecureSMS Gateway. Fraud reduction and fewer demands being made on call centers for IVR authentication are also part of the revenue equation at Maxim-Pro.

(more…)

CellTrust’s SecureSMS™ Appliance Selected Winner for Best Enterprise Enabler Application for the RCR Ecosystem Awards

Posted by admin on 21/Dec/2009 in Awards, Press Releases | 0 comments

SecureSMS Appliance Selected as Innovative Messaging Security Solution

Scottsdale, Arizona – December 21, 2009 – CellTrust® Corporation (www.celltrust.com), announced today that RCR Wireless, a premier news source for the wireless communications industry, has named CellTrust’s SecureSMS Appliance as the winner of the 2009 inaugural RCR Wireless Ecosystem Award in the category of Enabler Application – Enterprise. These influential awards highlight companies that have demonstrated success, innovation, and excellence in the industry.

“We are honored to receive this award from RCR Wireless in recognition of CellTrust’s SecureSMS Appliance,” said Sean Moshir, Chairman and CEO of CellTrust. “This award reinforces the value that secure messaging delivers to the enterprise space.”

The SecureSMS™ Appliance manages and exchanges messages via CellTrust’s highly Secure Mobile Information Management platform to:

• Meet security, privacy and compliance requirements without costly development
• Set aside concern that carriers, tower operators, infrastructure providers, aggregators, and others can intercept and read text messages
• Confirm that text message recipients have received and opened SMS messages
• Use the same set of APIs to send both secure and standard SMS or text messages
• Remotely “wipe” the handset if lost or stolen
• Definitively measure the Return-on-Investment of the mobile channel via SSMS
• Reduce overall cost of communications (more…)

CellTrust Corp. Launches Secure Mobile Government Division To Receptive Audience in Singapore

Posted by admin on 14/Oct/2009 in Press Releases | 0 comments

Governments Around the World are Securing the SMS Channel.

Scottsdale, Arizona, USA and Singapore – October 14, 2009 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today the launch of its Secure Mobile Government Division with a dedicated team of Governmental IT professionals and mobile security experts based at CellTrust headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

CellTrust’s Secure Mobile Government Division is comprised of seasoned IT professionals with decades of experience in governmental agency information data management. Along with CellTrust’s mobile security experts, they have engineered a suite of Secure Mobile Government Information Management applications designed to meet the stringent security and mobility needs of governmental agencies around the globe. The CellTrust SecureSMS™ Appliance connects to the CellTrust SecureSMS Gateway providing secure mobile information management to over 700 carriers in 200+ countries.

“We’ve experienced a global shift this year in demand from governmental agencies as they exploit the ubiquitous nature of SMS,” said Sean Moshir, CEO and Chairman of CellTrust. “After twenty years of providing Internet security for governmental agencies it is a logical step for the CellTrust team to pave the way for secure mobile government.”

(more…)

CellTrust and URBaCS Join ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition and Hallmark Homes to Build a Home for a Family in Need

Posted by admin on 13/Oct/2009 in In The News, Press Releases | 0 comments

CellTrust and URBaCS Provide SMS Text Messaging Application to Coordinate Volunteers and Raise Funding.

Scottsdale, Arizona and Noblesville, Indiana – October 12, 2009 – CellTrust Corporation, an Arizona based provider of leading edge secure mobile messaging and applications (www.celltrust.com), and URBaCS, Central Indiana’s leader in innovative ideas for small businesses (www.urbacs.com), announced today that they are joining ABC’s Extreme Makeover Home Edition and Hallmark Homes to help build a new home for a deserving local family. URBaCS will be using CellTrust’s Global SMS Gateway and text messaging application to help coordinate and notify volunteers for the project. CellTrust’s secure system will also be used to assist the team in fundraising for the families. The new home build is scheduled to begin October 21, 2009.

“Our team is excited about teaming up with CellTrust and ABC to help a deserving Central Indiana Family,” said Rob Wagoner, President of URBaCS. “We found the first Extreme Makeover project we were involved in so rewarding that when Hallmark Homes asked, we jumped at the chance to help again.”

(more…)

CellTrust Corp. Launches First SecureSMS™ Appliance for Global Enterprise Market

Posted by admin on 7/Oct/2009 in Press Releases | 6 comments

CellTrust to Deliver Industry’s First “Plug and Play” Secure SMS Solution for Enterprise Customers.

CTIA Wireless IT & Entertainment, San Diego, CA – October 6, 2009 – CellTrust Corporation, an Arizona based provider of leading-edge secure mobile messaging and applications (www.celltrust.com), today announced the launch of CellTrust SecureSMS™ Appliance for the enterprise space. This is the first global enterprise appliance to offer secure SMS communication for handset-to-handset, application-to-handset or vice versa, with highly encrypted end to end security in compliance with HIPAA, FISMA, and Sarbanes-Oxley, ensuring that information is kept private and only delivered to the intended recipient.

The CellTrust offering is a “plug and play” solution consisting of the patent pending CellTrust SecureSMS Gateway™ and an appliance with a modem from Multi-Tech, a Minneapolis-based cellular modem and wireless technology manufacturer, to provide a secure text messaging solution for transmitting confidential information from handset-to-handset, application-to-handset or vice versa. The CellTrust SecureSMS™ Appliance instantly connects the enterprise with over 700 carriers around the world and operates on many handsets from variety of manufacturers. The direct connection to carriers via cell towers significantly reduces the costs and time associated with securing and provisioning a short code, enabling enterprise customers to immediately begin to securely send sensitive material via SMS.

(more…)