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Monterey County-Based Canna Safety Plus at the Forefront of Cannabis Safety, Compliance and Analytics

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Californians are rightfully concerned about the safety of consumer products they buy, from automobiles and children’s toys to their meat, produce and medicines.

Spreckels, CA, July 19, 2018 — Californians are rightfully concerned about the safety of consumer products they buy, from automobiles and children’s toys to their meat, produce and medicines. And with the legalization of recreational cannabis this year, consumers also want to be informed about the safety of cannabis products as well.

With that in mind, Monterey County-based Canna Safety Plus LLC is providing the state’s cannabis industry with the necessary testing, analytics and auditing to comply with state safety and quality standards.

With the company’s trained and experienced auditors, anchored by its user-friendly, cloud-based proprietary software, which has been engineered and designed by industry professionals to prepare companies for the state regulation of cannabis, Canna Safety Plus is at the forefront of cannabis compliance and analytics.

Canna Safety Plus, in partnership with food safety consultants GFSC Group and prominent testing lab Deibel Cannabis Labs, has the necessary expertise, depth of experience and partnerships to provide the cannabis industry with the proper food safety auditing and analytical resources to comply with state standards, including SQF (Safe Quality Food), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) standards, as well as Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, product testing, and more.

“Our company partners have a depth of experience in food safety compliance, and food plant operations that are unsurpassed. We believe that the cannabis industry should have access to the same food safety compliance resources as any food manufacturing facility,” said Canna Safety’s Darryle Guarino. “We recognize there is no room for error when it comes to food safety compliance, and this passion comes through in everything we do.”

To meet state product testing regulations, Deibel Cannabis Labs analyzes a number of factors in cannabis, including:

* Cannabinoids

* Terpene Content

* Moisture

* Water Activity

* Yeast & Mold

* Mycotoxins

* Pesticides

* Solvents

* Microbial Hazards

* Foreign Materials

* Homogeneity

* Heavy Metals

“Deibel Cannabis Labs is excited to be in partnership with Canna Safety Plus and we’re looking forward to working with them to help our clients meet rigorous safety standards for the cannabis industry for years to come,” said Charles Deibel, Managing Partner of Deibel Cannabis Labs.

About Canna Safety Plus

At Canna Safety Plus Powered by GFSC Group, we have the necessary expertise, depth of experience and partnerships to provide the cannabis industry with the proper food safety auditing and analytical resources to comply with state standards, including SQF (Safe Quality Food), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) standards, as well as Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, product testing, and more.

Don’t rely on guesswork or unreliable sources to determine the safety and regulatory compliance of your products to make sure you are audit ready. With our trained and experienced auditors anchored by our user-friendly, cloud-based proprietary software, which has been engineered and designed by industry professionals to prepare companies for the state regulation of cannabis, we are at the forefront of cannabis compliance and analytics.

About GFSC

GFSC Group is the exclusive combination of many services that could help a company enhance their food safety programs. GFSC Group brings a unique blend of consulting for the Field (GAPs) and Food Manufacturing (GMPs) industries. GFSC has worked with some of the largest packers and producers in the world, successfully creating and implementing multiple world-class food safety management systems. Their team has years of successful food safety and quality program implementations around the globe and in 25 high-risk food sector categories. GFSC has helped numerous companies implement SQF, and other GFSI related audit schemes.

About Deibel Cannabis Labs

Deibel Cannabis Labs is a new subsidiary of Deibel Laboratories, which has been providing diagnostic testing to the food industry for more than 30 years at 12 strategically placed labs across the country. This allows for fast turn-around times, backing by an established testing company, and extensive experience when it comes to testing. Deibel now offers all the necessary cannabis testing procedures and has made significant investments in cannabis testing equipment.

Darryle Guarino

Darryle has been managing food safety facility audit requirements for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to local food plants for more than 20 years. His background as an SQF Lead Auditor and Compliance Consultant was the foundation for GFSC Group when it was formed in 2010. Today, GFSC Group is one of the leading consulting groups for food safety compliance in the United States. Darryle’s ability to bring common sense solutions to a world often dominated by punitive reaction has put GFSC Group ahead as one of top choices for food safety compliance. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Food Chemistry from the University of Maryland.

Canna Safety Plus, LLC

PO Box 7656

Spreckels, CA 92962

Email: sales@cannasafetyplus.com

Phone: 877-767-7487

Website: http://www.cannasafetyplus.com

Darryle Guarino, Principal

darryle@cannasafetyplus.com

404-859-7385

Contact:

Marci Bracco Cain

Chatterbox PR

Salinas, CA 93901

(831) 747-7455

http://www.cannasafetyplus.com

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Guardtime and Estonian Center of Registers Adopt Keyless Signature Infrastructure for Authenticating Digital Records

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Guardtime, today announced it is working with the Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK) to authenticate their digital records.

Tallinn (Estonia) | Palo Alto, CA (USA), March 20, 2013 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), the leading provider of keyless signature technology for validating the authenticity of digital data, today announced it is working with the Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK) to authenticate their digital records.

Financed by European Union Structural Funds, physical documents in the RIK archives of Succession Register and Chamber of Notaries are being digitized and stored in a digital archive.

The authenticity of the records in the digital archive is secured by Guardtime Keyless Signatures, ensuring the data integrity of both the digitized document and database record and matching the two.

Using Keyless Signature Infrastructure, the authenticity of all the records is periodically verified, the re-verification happens automatically, meaning that the information about the integrity of the stored records is always up to date and any breaches create an alert immediately.

“Our company’s roots are in Estonia, and we’re obviously happy to further contribute to securing the electronic data that Estonian State keeps on behalf of its citizens,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. “Long-term electronic archives like Succession Registry have retention periods of multiple lifetimes and having Keyless Signatures to independently assure that the records have been safe and not tampered with by anybody over their entire lifetime is certainly an important feature to have.”

EneliTikerpuu, the RIK project manager added: “It’s fortunate to have a technology partner so close to home, who is also unique in the world at what it does – thanks to Guardtime we have an independently verifiable authenticity proof for our Succession Register records that lasts the entire lifetime of the records, and using Keyless Signatures was the fastest and the most affordable route to achieve this.”

Most recently, Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) announced a partnership with the Philippine government to validate physical document integrity, with CAT Telecom, the state-owned telecommunications incumbent in Thailand and with China Telecom, the largest fixed line telecommunications service provider in the People’s Republic of China, establishing China Telecom as a Keyless Signature service provider via its Tianyi 3G platform.

About Estonian Center of Registers and Information Systems(RIK):
The RIK is an agency in the jurisdiction of the Estonian Ministry of Justice, with the purpose of establishing an innovative environment providing good integrated e-services for a more efficient implementation of state administration, legal and criminal policy. The RIK develops and administrates registries and information systems for the State and its citizens, for example the e-Business Register, the e-Notary system, the e-Land Register, the information system of courts, the Probation Supervision Register, the Prisoners Register, the Punishment Register, the e-File, the electronic State Gazette, etc. Visit http://www.rik.ee/en/ for more information about e-services by Estonian State.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to authenticate electronic data. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing time, signing entity and data integrity while the verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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 keyless data authentication.

Additional information:
Raul Vahisalu
CEO of Guardtime Estonia
+372 509 0385
raul.vahisalu@guardtime.com

EneliTikerpuu
Project Manager of Court Register Department
Centre of Registers and Information Systems
Tel: +372 680 3152; +372 566 73468
Eneli.Tikerpuu@just.ee

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Boston, MA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Guardtime Partners with Communications Agency of Thailand and CloudSec to Deliver Document Integrity Solutions in Thailand

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CAT Buzz has partnered with Guardtime and CloudSec Asia to develop solutions for the Thai market to validate the integrity of electronic documents.

Bangkok | Palo Alto, CA (USA) – January 11, 2013 — CAT Buzz, a wholly owned subsidiary of CAT Telecom Public Company Limited, a government owned telecom in Thailand, has partnered with Guardtime and CloudSec Asia to develop solutions for the Thai market to validate the integrity of electronic documents.

“With the majority of today’s document exchange being electronic, it is important to have the ability to track the document’s origin as well as to ensure that the document’s contents are in its original form,” says Mr. Nuththinun Suksomphong, CEO of CAT Buzz.

“Guardtime’s solution enables our customers to have an independently verifiable tamper-evident audit trail for all the electronic documents we create, transmit and archive.”

Guardtime CEO Mike Gault added: “Dematerialization is a requirement of the day and explosion in customer interest in our electronic document solutions from all parts of the world is a testimony of that. We’re thrilled to be working together with our partners in the Thai market to enable trust for electronic documents.”

The Guardtime solution for securing electronic documents takes advantage of Keyless Signature technology to facilitate independent verification of the signatures and to ensure that the proof of integrity never expires. The solution is rapidly deployable on its own and incorporates KSI Desktop Signer for end-users and can complement existing document management systems to provide a completely transparent user experience for electronic document protection.

Most recently, Guardtime announced a partnership with the Philippine government to validate physical document integrity and with China Telecom, the largest fixed line telecommunications service provider in the People’s Republic of China, establishing China Telecom as a Keyless Signature service provider via its Tianyi 3G platform.

About CAT Buzz:
CAT Buzz is a subsidiary of CAT Telecom Public Company Limited that was established in 2007 to become the leader in the Cloud Computing business in Thailand.

CAT Telecom is the state-owned company that runs Thailand’s international telecommunications infrastructure, including its international gateways, satellite, and submarine cable networks connections. CAT Telecom Public Company Limited was formerly known as Communication Authority of Thailand and changed its name to CAT Telecom Public Company Limited in August 2003. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Bangkok, Thailand and is fully owned by the ministry of finance of Thailand.

About CloudSecAsia:
CloudSec Asia is an international information security firm with offices in Jakarta and Bangkok. We are a research driven information Security Company that helps government and commercial organizations assess their vulnerability to a broad spectrum of technological and organizational risks, and develop customized solutions to contain and control them. Our approach is to replace traditional, manual processes and disparate point solutions to implement innovative security programs, best practices, and cutting edge information technology systems to provide holistic security solutions. Through these solutions, our customers manage emerging and evolving security risks and overcome compliance challenges.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Department of Transportation and Communications of Philippines Selects Guardtime to Combat Physical Document Forgery

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Department of Transportation and Communications of Philippines Selects Guardtime to Combat Physical Document Forgery

Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications has selected Guardtime, to pilot the Link2Cloud solution to quickly and reliably verify physical document authenticity in field conditions.

Manila | Palo Alto, CA (USA), December 12th, 2012 — Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications has selected Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), the leading provider of keyless signature technology for validating the integrity and authenticity of digital data, and local partner Trust Technologies, to pilot the Link2Cloud solution to quickly and reliably verify physical document authenticity in field conditions.

Chief Administrator for Philippine Marine Industry Authority, Atty. Nick A. Conti explains: “We are responsible for safe seas in the Philippines, and being in control of the personnel on board of our ships is paramount for achieving that. Implementing Link2Cloud solution enables our officials as well as ship administrators to easily verify the authenticity of Seaman’s Identification Record Books.”

Guardtime’s Link2Cloud solution takes advantage of the Keyless Signature technology to store tamper-evident benchmark digital images of the physical documents in a cloud infrastructure and connected smartphone devices to display them and enable officials to compare the benchmark image and the presented physical document.

The solution is rapidly deployable on its own or complementing any existing IT systems and with a pay-as-you-go cost model, yields its users an immediate return on investment.

Within the Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications, the Link2Cloud solution will be first piloted at Marine Industry Authority and will enable its field officers as well as ship administrators to verify the authenticity of Seaman’s Identification Record Books.

The solution is based on Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), implemented using Joyent’s Smart Data Center by Joyent ( http://www.joynet.com ) and delivered by Guardtime partner Trust Technologies, an exclusive KSI distributor in the Philippines.

Most recently, Guardtime announced a partnership with China Telecom, the largest fixed line telecommunications service provider in the People’s Republic of China, establishing China Telecom as a keyless signature service provider via its Tianyi 3G platform.

About Philippine DOTC:
The Philippine Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is the primary policy, planning, programming, coordinating, implementing and administrative entity of the executive branch of the government on the promotion, development and regulation of a dependable and coordinated network of transportation and communications systems, as well as in the fast, safe, efficient and reliable transportation and communications services. For more information visit www.dotc.gov.ph.

About Trust Technologies:
Trust Technologies is a leading Philippine IT solutions company offering electronic data validation solutions to help organizations fight insider fraud and hacking. The company’s solutions are used by government entities and commercial enterprises that need to be certain their electronic data can be proven to be corruption-free. For more information visit http://www.trusttechinc.com.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Jian Tan of Guardtime Awarded 2M RMB to Increase Transparency and Security in China’s Communication Networks

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Guardtime today announced that its China General Manager Jian Tan has been awarded the 2M RMB Shanglin prize from the ZheJiang Cixi government to help establish Keyless Signature Infrastructure in China.

Beijing, China, October 02, 2012 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) today announced that its China General Manager Jian Tan has been awarded the 2M RMB (approx. U.S. $317,000) Shanglin prize from the ZheJiang Cixi government to help establish Keyless Signature Infrastructure in China.

Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party.

“The Shanglin prize is very prestigious and we are thrilled to be the first foreign company to be awarded the prize,” said Jian Tan, General Manager of Guardtime China.

Jian Tan added, “The 2M RMB award will allow us to accelerate Guardtime’s ( http://www.guardtime.com ) vision of bringing transparency and security to China’s communication networks. With keyless signatures integrated tightly with messaging protocols it is possible to provide a completely independent audit trail for machine to machine and human communication removing any doubt about the integrity, time and origin of the communicated data. ”

Wang Liyun, Chair of the Shanglin nomination committee said, “Keyless Signature Infrastructure is a revolutionary technology with the potential to greatly advance the transparency and security of the China’s communication networks. Mr. Jian Tan, Chief Executive of Guardtime China is a skilled entrepreneur and we are delighted to award him and Guardtime China the Shanglin prize.”

Guardtime CEO Mike Gault said, “Guardtime recently joined the Global Cloud Network of infrastructure and software companies including Joyent, Fixmo and Voxeo labs that are dedicated to building a next- generation cloud infrastructure for mobile first markets such as China and winning this award reiterates the importance placed on transparency and security.”

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing time, entity and integrity of data. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information.

About Shanglin:
The Shanglin prize is provided by the CIxi government in Zhejiang province yearly to award the top entrepreneurs in China who show great potential with unique technologies that can help accelerate China’s economic progress. The prize includes 2M RMB award along with numerous commercial benefits. For more information visit: http://slyc.cixi.gov.cn/chinese/newsinfo.asp?id=32.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR for Guardtime
Beijing, China
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Guardtime Names Jeffrey Pearce Director of Intellectual Property

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Guardtime today announced it has appointed Jeffrey Pearce as Director of Intellectual Property, effective immediately.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), September 06, 2012 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), inventors of Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), the web-scale digital signature system for electronic data, today announced it has appointed Jeffrey Pearce as Director of Intellectual Property, effective immediately.

“Intellectual Property is critical to our success and we are thrilled to have someone of Jeff’s caliber on board to manage our expanding portfolio,” said Mike Gault, Guardtime CEO. “His distinguished career as an international patent attorney with Siemens, HP and VMWare makes him the perfect candidate to ensure our Intellectual Property Portfolio is robust and defensible.”

Mr. Pearce has more than 25 years of experience handling all aspects of intellectual property at law firms in Europe and the USA as well as in-house in multinational USA, German and Chinese companies. While managing the IP program at VMware, he wrote key patents for the company’s highly profitable modern virtual machine technology. Jeff has a first degree in Mathematics from the University of Uppsala, an M.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering/Control Systems from KTH – Kungliga tekniska högskolan – (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden, and a JD from UCLA School of Law.

Most recently Guardtime announced a completely unique solution in the marketplace: a Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution on Joyent’s cloud platform, aimed at Infrastructure Service Providers and Telecommunication Operators targeting mobile first markets, allowing ICT operators to provide service-level agreements (SLAs) around backup and recovery of virtualized servers in a cloud environment.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: the unreliability of electronic data. Guardtime’s Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) is a web-scale digital signature system for electronic data, providing proof of signing time, entity and data integrity, the verification of which can be done offline without reliance on cryptographic keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Guardtime to Launch SLA-Based Disaster Recovery as a Service on Joyent’s Cloud Platform

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Guardtime today unveiled its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution on Joyent’s cloud platform, aimed at Infrastructure Service Providers and Telecommunication Operators targeting mobile first markets.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), September 03, 2012 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), today unveiled its Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution on Joyent’s cloud platform, aimed at Infrastructure Service Providers and Telecommunication Operators targeting mobile first markets. The solution offers seamless SLA-based business continuity, efficient capacity expansion and data integrity verification as part of the world’s first secure cloud stack.

By leveraging the cloud as a remote recovery site, enterprise is protected against disasters at its home site and can reconstruct its network to keep services running remotely for as long as it takes to rebuild a server, data center or entire facility. If a disaster strikes, a remote DRaaS team is unaffected and can manage the recovery process to enable faster recoveries.

“We will soon be in a world with over 50 billion interconnected devices and ICT operators, especially in mobile first emerging markets will be able to offer their customers a level of security and availability vastly superior to their OTT competitors,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. “While AWS with their Glacier offering is targeting long term storage with limited guarantees, Guardtime’s DRaaS offering will allow ICT operators to provide SLAs around backup and recovery with an independently verifiable audit trail of everything that happens to customer data while it is in their infrastructure.”

Aside of the operational benefits, cloud based DRaaS is also cost effective, as enterprises can share spare capacity with other enterprises, and the capacity can fluctuate based upon the time of day, the time of year, or even season. In the long run, enterprises reduce costs even further by avoiding additional capital investments that one-to-one schemas require and by enabling usage-based billing when disaster recovery is needed.

“Disaster recovery is the number one feature requested by the enterprise customers of our cloud platform and we’re excited to answer their call by rolling-out this service together with Guardtime in the coming months,” said Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent. “With enabled SLA-s, near real-time restore and Guardtime’s data integrity validation features enabled by default, the solution is completely unique in the marketplace.”

The Disaster Recovery as a Service offering complements Guardtime’s existing Clean State Proof data integrity suite ( http://www.guardtime.com ), aimed at Infrastructure Service Providers and Telecommunication Operators, validating Virtual Machine images prior deployment and ensuring that the customer data or log files residing in the cloud infrastructure have not been tampered with by any party.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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Guardtime Keyless Signatures Provide a Regulatory Compliant Audit Trail for WDX Market Reference Data

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WOCU’s integration of the Guardtime Keyless Signatures provides independent and legally enforceable proof that distributed WOCU fixing data has not been compromised.

Palo Alto, CA (USA) / London (UK), Tuesday – August 07, 2012 — Excessive volatility in foreign exchange rates creates a tremendous amount of business uncertainty, the WOCU® World Currency Unit by WDX Organisation is a contemporary derivative currency basket comprised of quoted currencies, providing the perfect “off the shelf” natural currency stabilization solution to this issue. The guarantee of accuracy and authenticity of this data must be absolute for regulatory authorities and auditors in the event of a dispute. WOCU’s integration of the Guardtime Keyless Signatures provides independent and legally enforceable proof that distributed WOCU fixing data has not been compromised.

“The recent Libor scandals show how important it is for financial institutions to have a secure audit trail around market reference data, one that will stand up in court and regulatory compliance and cannot be manipulated by insiders with system access. There here is no better example than WDX and WOCU,” says Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. “We’re happy to help WDX in securing an audit trail for their market reference data, a solution especially relevant in today’s economic climate.”

Mike Blakey, Managing Director of the WDX Organisation, said, “WOCU data and applications allow our clients to fully recognize the value of the WOCU as a natural currency stabilizer. With the integration of the Guardtime Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ), our clients now have the proof they need that WOCU fixing data is authentic and tamper-free. This supports our goal of promulgating the unfettered use of the WOCU in markets and businesses around the world.”

As a result of the integration of Guardtime Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ), all WOCU fixing data is indelibly signed to prove integrity and authenticity, concurrent with delivery to WOCU subscribers; WDX Organisation Limited maintain long-term proof of integrity for historical currency values without the need to manage complex and expensive PKI-based systems.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

About WDX Organisation Limited and the WOCU:
WDX is a private company based in London, England. It is the owner and distributor of the WOCU, a standardised, apolitical, real time derivative currency quotation based on the real time exchange rates of the currency pairs of the world’s top 20 nations as determined by IMF measures of GDP. The WOCU, its constituent currency pairs weighted in line with GDPs, is a generally less volatile currency unit than traditional currency pairs, balancing currency risk and offering commercial advantage for users. WOCU prices, information about WDX and other data can be found at http://www.wocu.com.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

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World’s First Tamper-Evident Cloud – Estonian Telco Levira Teams Up with Joyent and Guardtime

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Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Friday – June 29, 2012 — Joyent and Guardtime’s cloud computing technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) enables Levira, the Estonian government’s majority owned service provider, to offer secure cloud-computing services to Governments and enterprises in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Levira also aims to start providing secure cloud services for multinational corporations that need to comply with the data residency requirements also outside of their home soil.

“Joyent’s double hulled virtualization and Guardtime’s keyless signature technology makes a formidable combination for enterprises and governments who wish to move to a cloud computing environment but hesitate due to security and trust-related concerns,” said Mart Einpalu, CEO of Levira. “Our mission is to become a leading cloud computing service provider in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe and our unique ability to give our clients tools to prove with mathematical certainty that their data has been safe and in compliance with the regulations is a paramount requirement to achieve that.”

Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology today powers numerous carriers and large scale service providers around the world including Uniserve Communications, LinkedIN and others. Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent said, “Estonia is at the forefront of technology innovation and it is no surprise that companies like Skype and Guardtime are developing cutting edge technologies there. We are thrilled to have a strategic partnership with Guardtime to offer the world’s first tamper-evident cloud.”

“Previously the clients of cloud computing services had no choice but to blindly trust their service provider,” added Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime. ( http://www.guardtime.com ) “With the integration of Guardtime’s keyless signature technology into Joyent’s Smart Data Center, clients can have an independently verifiable audit trail for everything that happens in their service provider’s environment. Our strategic partnership with Joyent represents a major breakthrough in enterprise risk management and audit preparedness in distributed IT infrastructure and will ease the transition to cloud computing, especially important for governments and enterprise clients with heightened security and compliance requirements.”

About Levira:
Levira is the provider of infrastructure services to IT, media and telecom segments. Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Levira is the largest provider of TV playout services in the Northern Europe and the main TV- and radio broadcast transmission provider in Estonia. Levira operates one of the largest datacentres in Estonia and provides public and private cloud services using Joyent’s Smart Data Center technology. Levira provides IT, media and telecom infrastructure and business process outsourcing services to many multinational and regional players like Turner, Fox, TeliaSonera, Sony, MTG and others in Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

About Joyent:
Joyent is the cloud infrastructure performance company, offering enterprises and developers the best public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today’s modern data-intensive, real-time (DIRTy) applications. JoyentCloud.com delivers public cloud services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, including LinkedIn, Voxer, and Gilt Groupe. Node.js, the open source server-side JavaScript project owned and stewarded by Joyent, provides developers and enterprises such as Microsoft with the most powerful runtime for developing data-intensive, real-time apps. SmartDataCenter orchestrates Joyent’s technologies into a cohesive, reliable and distributed system that can stand up to the compute demands of the modern world. For more information, visit http://www.joyent.com.

All company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Palo Alto, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
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Cognuse Adopts Guardtime Keyless Signature Technology for Data Integrity

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Guardtime’s Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Thursday – June 07, 2012 — Guardtime’s Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse ( http://www.cognuse.com ), creator of the world’s most comprehensive executive functions rehabilitation system, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

The Guardtime integration into CognuseManager, which is the central management system for Cognuse’s products, will cover all critical data within the system, including web server SSL logs, application logs, anonymized/non-anonymized patient profile database transaction logs, patient health record database transaction logs, routine backups, and archived data. For future purposes, Cognuse is also looking into utilizing Guardtime’s Keyless Signature Service for automatic PDF signing for patient progress and incident reports.

“In healthcare, making decisions based on accurate data is a matter of life and death. Guardtime’s solution gives healthcare professionals a good reason for transitioning to e-health applications as they can be certain that the patient’s data is valid and intact,” said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ).

“Guardtime keyless signing technology is an easy-to-use solution for e-health applications and plays a critical role in building the trust required within our target medical community in several markets. Processing of patient health records is constantly being scrutinized for privacy and security concerns and we are excited to be working with Guardtime in getting a step closer to a highly trustworthy e-health application,” said Andres Mellik, CTO of Cognuse.

About Cognuse
Cognuse produces and manufactures systems and devices specifically for cognitive rehabilitation. Cognuse’s clients are professional healthcare service providers who specialize in brain health treatments, diagnostics, and rehabilitation services – facilities such as hospitals with in-house mental health rehabilitation, mental health rehabilitation clinics, and elderly care institutions.

For more information visit: http://www.cognuse.com

Cognuse Contact
Andres Mellik, CTO
andres.mellik@cognuse.com

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which 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.

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