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Trusted Mobile Solutions, Inc. (tMo) and Swan Island Networks Announce Strategic Alliance to Extend TIES Information Sharing Capability to Wireless Mobile

Launching end-to-end high-assurance, highly secure information sharing for the wireless mobile marketplace

Portland, OR – July 10, 2007—Swan Island Networks, Inc., a recognized leader in the design and deployment of trusted information exchange solutions, and Trusted Mobile Solutions™ Inc. (tMo), the provider of industry-leading products and services enabling highly secure information sharing for the wireless mobile market, today announced a strategic alliance crafted to extend the highly secure information sharing capabilities of Swan Island’s TIES™ (Trusted Information Exchange Service) to wireless mobile devices.

Swan Island’s flagship TIES solution was launched in 2003 as the platform for Connect & Protect™, a community-based information sharing program. TIES has grown to serve federal, state and local government agencies, port authorities, private businesses and other critical infrastructure, and public and private safety stakeholders including, most recently, the Hawaii Hotel and Visitors Industry Security Association (HHVISA). Swan Island also has completed a new strategic agreement with ESRI S-GROUP, to distribute the TIES-based Connect & Protect managed service to government and enterprise customers in the European Union.

TIES is an Internet-based managed service that aggregates disparate sources of information with alerting and notification services, then ensures targeted, rules-based information dissemination to PCs and other devices. TIES provides geospatially based situational awareness to end users and enables authenticated stakeholders to share information in Communities of Trust.

tMo’s solutions are based on the powerful back-end technology developed by Swan Island Networks, Inc., and enhanced with leading edge technology from vendors including Microsoft Corp. and Cisco, Inc., for mobile devices, wireless networks and integrated web tiers. This includes security role-based filters, device type security, transport level security based on open standards, audit trails, and geospatially based watermarking for messages sent from mobile devices. tMo’s rendering capabilities include installed client applications for Windows-OS mobile devices and mobile browsers using WPF, including iPhones, Blackberrys and Web phones. tMo’s offerings will be provided as smart, thin client applications for mobile devices and as a hosted managed service, or as a suite of software products and services for customers’ internal networks.

“tMo leverages Swan Island Networks’ TIES’ strengths, including user authentication and authorization, data aggregation, and targeting,” said Charles Jennings, CEO of Swan Island Networks. “And, it will extend TIES by providing end-to-end security and assurance that’s far beyond anything seen in the mobile market to date. This is particularly important for first responders and incident commanders, who make critical decisions in the field. They need real-time information. This is the way to get the information to them where they are, when they need it—within a high assurance system.”

“TIES is an extremely effective technology solution for Internet and IT infrastructures,” said John Ballantine, CEO of tMo. “tMo adds the one missing element of this solution—the ability of information, in a highly secure form, to be communicated to mobile devices. Using TIES, tMo can deliver sensitive intelligence, security, and business continuity information, plus targeted alerts and notifications, with new methods for high-assurance mobile information sharing. Mobile users can transmit sensitive information from the field, with watermarking and other security features, so it is truly assured two-way communication.”

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Media Contact:

Sherry Lamoreaux
Swan Island Networks
503-796-7926
sherry.lamoreaux@swanisland.net

or

Robert Nachbar
Kismet Communications
206-427-0389
rob@kismetcommunications.net

 

 

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