CellTrust Lands Deal With Malaysia’s Celcom

Posted by admin on 9/Feb/2011 in In The News | 0 comments

The Phoenix Business Journal has picked up on the CellTrust deal with Celcom Malaysia and written a nice article.

Phoenix Business Journal
Date: Monday, February 7, 2011

CellTrust Corp. has launched its secure mobile messaging system in Malaysia through that country’s largest 3G wireless firm, Celcom.

Scottsdale-based CellTrust has been developing secure mobile messaging for several years, and Celcom recently launched the CellTrust application for BlackBerrys.

The deal, for which financial information was not released, opens access to the application to about 11 million subscribers. It also allows CellTrust to be available to enterprise-level companies with opportunities to host the traffic on their own computer networks.

The secure system allows for texts to be encrypted so they cannot be intercepted along with a host of other features.

Read the article full article on the Phoenix Business Journal’s web site

CellTrust Prepares NFC Provisioning APIs Using SecureSMS for Carriers and Banks as NFC Technology Rollout Begins in 2011

Posted by admin on 25/Aug/2010 in Press Releases | 1 comment

CellTrust Removes Major Obstacle for Mobile Operators and Banks by Delivering OTA (Over-The-Air) NFC Configuration and Provisioning

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, USA – August 25, 2010 – CellTrust Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones (www.celltrust.com), announced today that it is preparing patent-pending, NFC-provisioning APIs using SecureSMS, in anticipation of NFC technology rollout beginning in early 2011.

NFC (Near Field Communication) is a short-range wireless communication standard that bundles a contactless chip with a contactless reader inside the mobile device. With NFC technology, consumers can simply wave or tap their phone within a few inches of a reader to transfer information to their mobile phone or to complete a mobile payment or transaction.

Designed to make life much easier for the end-user, provisioning NFC will require the carrier to send sensitive and confidential information to the mobile subscriber’s handset. While a few methods exist to provision NFC, CellTrust believes SMS is the optimal choice because it uses the mobile communications control channel, which is separate from voice and data and operates regardless of the voice or data being used. The control channel has high resiliency, low bandwidth requirements and was designed for carriers to send specific commands and instructions to the handset via SMS. It is important to note that standard SMS is not secure and can be spoofed. Provisioning NFC with CellTrust’s SecureSMS APIs addresses spoofing with a fully authenticated, government-grade, highly encrypted, tamper-proof process, which also enables message sizes up to 5,000 characters.

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A Current Affair Report on SMS Security Scare Followup – Victims

Posted by admin on 6/Nov/2009 in Security Alert Log | 0 comments

Last evening the Australian TV show “A Current Affair” had a segment following up with some victims who had been adversely affected by senders of SMS messages to faking their “Sender” details using readily available software.

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CellTrust Cracks it for Top Story on Urgent Communications Web Site

Posted by admin on 14/Oct/2009 in Security Alert Log | 0 comments

A very nice article about CellTrust SecureSMS™ Appliance has been posted on the Urgent Communications Web Site.

Lynnette Luna of Urgent Communications formerly known as MRT: Mobile Radio Technology has done a very nice write up. Here’s a brief excerpt from the article:

Secure mobile messaging and applications provider CellTrust introduced an enterprise appliance that enables encrypted SMS messages from handset to handset, application to handset or vice versa. That means public-safety agencies, federal government entities, health-care groups and banks now can use text messaging in a secure way.

Text messaging has evolved over the years to become a vital public-safety tool, and many companies have launched technology that offers two-way text dialog from any PC to any mobile device, regardless of wireless technology, carrier or device types. Public-safety and government agencies are using these systems as a valuable adjunct to their primary communications systems.

“Text messaging is not secure,” said Sean Moshir, CEO and chairman of CellTrust.  Standard SMS can be intercepted along the transmission path at multiple locations — SMS aggregators, operators, infrastructure providers or tower operators — especially when the Internet is transmitting the messages, he said.

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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.”

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