WISeKey’s
Zero Trust Solution
Helps WISeID.com Users
Prevent Pegasus
Malware that
Infects iPhones and Androids
Devices
Zero Trust is a cybersecurity concept
centered on the belief that organizations should not automatically
trust anything inside or outside its security perimeters and
instead must digitally verify anything and everything trying to
connect to its systems before granting access.
Pegasus malware infects iPhones and
Android devices and allows hackers
to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and
secretly activate microphones.
To prevent installing Pegasus, only open
links from known and trusted contacts and sources when using your
device. Make sure your device is updated with any relevant patches
and upgrades. If you use Android, don't rely on notifications for
new versions of the operating system.
Download wiseid.com and use digital
certificates to encrypt your communications and secure your
email. It’s
free!
Geneva, Switzerland – July 22, 2022: WISeKey
International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a
leading global cybersecurity AI and IoT company, today announced
that its WISeID platform, through WISeID Cloud and CloudSign
features, provides a Zero Trust Approach as a new way to secure
mobile communications and cloud interactions and mitigate online
security risks associated with remote teleworking and increasing
use of mobile phones as authentication and payment devices. In
2020, WISeKey intensified its investments in Zero Trust
developments to create advanced solutions to provide remote
users/workforce with an easy-to-use and end-to-end Zero Trust
approach.
As COVID-19 pandemic continues to effect the
global economy, many companies and organizations have adapted to
the new reality where professional interactions with customers and
among employees are conducted electronically. These organizations
are following Zero Trust networking principles allowing them to
address the security requirements driven by the rapid digital
transformation and expansion of their remote workforce. Companies
are now required to act quickly in order to mitigate the
cybersecurity risks created by the sudden shift to remote work
caused by the pandemic.
Zero Trust is a cybersecurity concept centered
on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust
anything inside or outside its security perimeters and instead must
digitally verify anything and everything trying to connect to its
systems before granting access.
Electronic signatures are being perceived
finally as a need to ensure that all electronic documents being
managed remotely, have the same legal validity as paper documents,
regardless if these documents represent external transactions such
as contracts or invoices, or internal transactions such as expense
reports or vacation requests.
Also, companies are now confronting the needs to
use cloud services, in such a way that applications and documents
previously accessed and managed using internal networks, now need
to be accessed remotely without compromising the security of the
data, nor the privacy of the users. For this, companies are
carefully evaluating their cloud strategy and seeking to cooperate
with cloud service providers that can ensure high security and data
sovereignty.
WISeKey is now proposing a new set of Zero Trust
into its WISeID platform, providing new ways to secure
interactions. The strategy WISeID follows under the Zero Trust
platform it is based on the principle of “we trust no one and will
only provide access after we know who you.”
“These new work behaviors induced from the
global lockdown situation are generating new challenges to the
companies’ IT organizations. The big question is how to bring
corporate data security to the employees’ homes. While employees
are slowly returning to their offices as countries begin to ease
COVID-19-induced lockdowns and lift stay-at-home orders,
uncertainty related to the pandemic still lingers. As consequence,
many organizations are choosing to maintain semi-remote, virtual
workplaces over the next 12 to 18 months and in some cases
permanently thus becoming digital by default,” indicated Carlos
Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey.
WISeID is based on the WISeKey/OISTE Root of
Trust and integrates innovative technologies to distribute the
identity attributes and build federated ecosystems. The WISeID web
services and Mobile Applications are available for download and
use. Several offers, such as digital certificates to secure the
email or the strong authentication capabilities are offered free of
charge, while others require a business subscription, in order to
get full access to validated identities and document signature
capabilities. For more information visit https://wiseid.com.
For decades, WISeKey has been one of the very
few recognized providers of hardware and software first-in-class
digital security solutions for cybercrime protection, people and
object identification and authentication. The company has been
designing secure chips which are massively used in highly sensitive
applications such as banking, national ID or PayTV. Therefore, most
of these chips are certified to Common Criteria EAL5+, one of the
highest government grade security certifications.
To learn more about WISeKey and its security
solutions, visit WISeKey.com.
About WISeKeyWISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss
Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently
deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and
objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the
Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the
pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey
IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually
all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural
sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers,
mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely
positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a
huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial
Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the
failure of their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based
cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication
and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for
the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The
WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity
of online transactions among objects and between objects and
people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
Press and investor contacts:
WISeKey
International Holding LtdCompany Contact: Carlos
MoreiraChairman & CEOTel: +41 22 594
3000info@wisekey.com |
WISeKey
Investor Relations (US)Contact: Lena CatiThe Equity
Group Inc.Tel: +1 212 836-9611lcati@equityny.com |
Disclaimer:This communication expressly or
implicitly contains certain forward-looking statements concerning
WISeKey International Holding Ltd and its business. Such statements
involve certain known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors, which could cause the actual results, financial condition,
performance or achievements of WISeKey International Holding Ltd to
be materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. WISeKey International Holding Ltd is providing this
communication as of this date and does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.This press release does not
constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy,
any securities, and it does not constitute an offering prospectus
within the meaning of article 652a or article 1156 of the Swiss
Code of Obligations or a listing prospectus within the meaning of
the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange. Investors must rely on
their own evaluation of WISeKey and its securities, including the
merits and risks involved. Nothing contained herein is, or shall be
relied on as, a promise or representation as to the future
performance of WISeKey.
WISeKey (NASDAQ:WKEY)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2024 to May 2024
WISeKey (NASDAQ:WKEY)
Historical Stock Chart
From May 2023 to May 2024