
PRESS RELEASE
: April 7, 2005
Phelps County Regional Medical Center
Selects Voltage Security and CipherTrust to Provide Privacy
Protection
for E-mail Communication
Voltage Security Products Featuring Identity-Based
Encryption (IBE) and CipherTrust’s Policy Management
Provide Compliance for Regional Healthcare Center
Baltimore, MD—HIPAA Summit—April 7,
2005---Phelps County Regional Medical Center (Phelps),
serving the medical needs of Rolla and south central Missouri,
today announced that it has selected Voltage Security,
Inc.,
a global leader in enterprise privacy management, and CipherTrust,
Inc. (www.ciphertrust.com),
the leader in messaging security, to ensure compliance
for the April 20th HIPAA security rule deadline. The combination
of Voltage SecureMail™, Voltage Identity-Based Encryption
or IBE Gateway Server™ and CipherTrust IronMail® will
provide policy-driven encryption to protect private health
and financial information in e-mails flowing in and out
of the medical center. Phelps, a 235-bed acute-care hospital,
selected the CipherTrust/Voltage solution due to its easy-to-use,
flexible administration capabilities. Approximately 800
employees at Phelps are currently using the Voltage/CipherTrust
solution.
“Our goal is to meet the standards set-forth in federal
patient privacy regulations, such as HIPAA, and safeguard
all Protected Health Information (PHI) leaving and coming
into the hospital. At the same time, we want to continue
to offer our customers and vendor partners the convenience
and efficiency of e-mail communication. Voltage IBE, combined
with the CipherTrust IronMail appliance, provides us with
all of this plus a total e-mail security solution,” said
Mary Crouch, CIO/IT security officer, Phelps County Regional
Medical Center. “We looked at several solutions and
none of them offered the combination of automation, ease-of-use,
functionality and reporting that we knew would be best for
our users. I learned to use it in a couple of minutes on
my home computer, so I knew my end users would not need extra
training. Installation of the system at the hospital has
been quick and efficient.”
CipherTrust’s IronMail solution is an all-in-one appliance
that sits at the enterprise gateway blocking inbound e-mail
threats and protecting outbound message content from policy
violations. IronMail examines the content and handles it
based on administrator-defined policy. The message
is then routed to the Voltage IBE Gateway Server where it
is encrypted and delivered to the Internet by IronMail. IBE
greatly simplifies the process of protecting private digital
communications by using a common identity, such as an e-mail
address, as a public key and no certificates need to be managed
and no pre-enrollment in the system is required.
“We are finding tremendous interest in policy-based
encryption. It is the ideal solution for organizations that
want to take compliance decision-making out of the hands
of end users, and automatically scan and encrypt all messages
containing sensitive, private information. The Voltage IBE
Gateway Server combined with the CipherTrust IronMail appliance
helps customers comply with key regulations automatically
and efficiently,” said Wasim Ahmad, vice president
of marketing, Voltage Security, Inc.
“Adding the Voltage IBE Server to IronMail’s
Privacy Architecture has enabled CipherTrust customers to
conduct secure business communication anytime, from anywhere,” said
Mike Rothman, vice president of marketing, CipherTrust. “Enterprises
such as Phelps choose this solution to ensure the secure
delivery of business-critical messages and to help fill in
a piece of the compliance puzzle for regulations such as
HIPAA. Not only is it critical to protect e-mail servers
from incoming threats such as viruses and worms, it is just
as vital to protect legitimate business messages from reaching
the wrong hands or possibly violating corporate or regulatory
policies.”
About CipherTrust, Inc.
CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security.
Recognized by IDC as the market leader, the Company’s
award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems
of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution,
including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust
pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five
critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention,
virus and work protection, policy and content compliance,
e-mail privacy, and intrusion prevention into a single easy
to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top
tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners.
For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or
call 877.448.8625.
About Voltage Security
Voltage Security, Inc. provides the market leading
Voltage Enterprise Privacy Management Platform™, a
breakthrough foundation for securing all forms of digital
business communication flowing into and outside an organization.
Based on a revolutionary breakthrough called IBE, or Identity-Based
Encryption, the Voltage Enterprise Privacy Management Platform
greatly simplifies the use and administration of traditional
security systems. Voltage Security markets its own enterprise
solutions including the Voltage SecureMail Gateway™,
Voltage SecureMail™ and secure mobile messaging solutions
for RIMs BlackBerry® and Microsoft Windows Mobile-based
Pocket PCs and Smartphones, and partners with other leading
companies such as CipherTrust, FrontBridge Technologies (a
Microsoft company) and Proofpoint to serve the expanded security
needs of the enterprise. Third-party and corporate developers
can secure customer applications with the Voltage IBE Toolkit™.
Voltage Security customers include leading corporations and
governmental agencies from around the globe including XL
Global Services, Waterfield Mortgage, QVC Japan and Hitachi.
About Phelps County Regional Medical Center
Phelps County Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit
community hospital located in Rolla, Missouri and serving
the medical needs of south central Missouri. Phelps is a
235-bed, acute-care hospital, with more than 1300 employees.
The goal at Phelps is to create an environment which fosters
service excellence directed toward all customers including
employees, patients, families, visitors and physicians. For
more information, please see www.pcrmc.com.
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Voltage SecureMail, Voltage SecureFile, Voltage SecurePolicy
Suite, Voltage IBE Gateway Server and Voltage IBE Toolkit
are all either trademarks or registered trademarks of Voltage
Security, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are
the property of their respective owner.
CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust,
Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective
owners.
