GuardTime, creator of
Keyless Signature technology providing indisputable proof of time, origin, and
data integrity for the world’s electronic information, today announced that its
Keyless Signature technology has been adopted by Cernam, creators of the first
purpose-built system for capturing and preserving evidence from online sources.
Cernam’s technology enables investigators, attorneys and government agencies to
capture online content in a forensically-sound manner and the addition of GuardTime’s Keyless Signature
technology will provide cryptographically secure digital signatures, providing
built-in tamper detection for all evidence captured using Cernam’s system.
When dealing with digital evidence, courts require forensic rigor in the
collection of data, the capture of full and accurate content, the preservation
of metadata, and the production of data as it originally existed. Cernam has
designed its system from the ground up to meet these requirements and will now
enhance its core technology by adding Keyless Signatures to provide
mathematical proof of integrity, thereby removing the unnecessary reliance on
trust.
Organizations dealing with online content as evidence can now leverage Cernam’s
"Capture & Preserve" technology to collect evidence from
websites, message boards, social networking sites, online productivity tools
and web-based enterprise systems. By utilizing a purpose-built system which
includes GuardTime’s Keyless Signature technology for proof of time and
integrity, organizations can abandon evidentially-flawed methods such as
screenshots and printouts, raising online content to the level of evidence
experienced with email or hard disk forensics.
Attaching a GuardTime Keyless Signature to every item of evidence captured and
preserved in the evidence container produced by the system, Cernam
"Capture & Preserve" collects and packages the entire content of
a web page or other online resource in an evidentially sound manner, providing
survivable third-party verification of time and integrity without the reliance
on any specific technology providers.
"When we set out to create the first purpose-built system to capture and
preserve online evidence we knew we had to play to our strengths: the
principles of digital evidence, modern web technologies and the use of digital
evidence. We equally knew that we needed to integrate proven technology for
secure digital timestamps and proof of integrity, rather than attempting to
‘roll our own," said Owen O’Connor, founder and managing director of
Cernam.
O’Connor continued: "GuardTime represents the ideal partner for Cernam
since their Keyless Signature technology gives us two proof points which are
fundamental to digital forensics and investigations: a) the exact point in time
when evidence was collected; and b) proof that the evidence has not been
changed or tampered with since the time it was collected."
Cernam Capture & Preserve is currently in beta and will be released in late
2011. For details of Cernam’s online evidence technology, visit www.cernam.com.
About Cernam:
Cernam is a specialist digital investigations firm based in Dublin, Ireland
that is focused on the use of online content as digital evidence. Building on a
background in information security, electronic discovery, and corporate
investigations, Cernam develops unique tools that bring forensic rigor to the
collection, preservation and analysis of online evidence.
About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation
Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest
problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of
data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature
can be done offline without the reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of
a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where
keyless signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data
lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the cloud.
Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures
for signing your data.
Contact:
Victor Cruz
For GuardTime
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 978-594-4134
