Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been selected for an Australian Government Enterprise Connect Researchers in Business grant to help design security software for a portable application device.<\/p>\n
The device known as the Mini Silicon Data Vault (SDV), produced by security technology company, Secure Systems, provides functionality that helps realise the \u2018secure laptop in your pocket\u2019 concept.<\/p>\n
The Mini SDV is a small pocket-size Universal Serial Bus (USB) device which allows a trusted software application resident on the device to be uploaded to any host PC.<\/p>\n
The new product, combined with trusted security software, will provide users with a portable Virtual Private Network (VPN), browser or network client to allow them to connect to their corporate applications and data securely.<\/p>\n
Mr Griffiths, from Curtin\u2019s School of Information Systems, is working on the development of the trusted applications to be packaged with the Mini SDV.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trusted application environment is an operating system and set of applications configured to work with the unique protections of the Mini SDV,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe protection offered by the security features of the device allows establishment of a portable trusted environment using any available PC as a host.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trusted applications running from the Mini SDV may then be used to communicate securely with corporate applications\u201d<\/p>\n
Secure Systems Managing Director, Peter James, said the device is designed to meet the high demand from security-conscious organisations for a secure device that could be issued to customers or home-based\/mobile employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe device allows an organisation to implement home based or mobile working without compromising organisational security or trading security for functionality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mini SDV effectively extends the logical security capabilities of an organisation to any distant or remote location.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the main\u00a0innovative features of the device is its ability to protect a trusted application in a secure storage area whilst ensuring no sensitive data remains on the host PC.\u201d<\/p>\n
The device will be available to purchase from March 2010.<\/p>\n
The Researchers in Business grant aims to improve the dissemination of expertise from research environments to industry and, thereby, increase the competitiveness of industry.<\/p>\n
The Head of School of Information Systems, Associate Professor Vanessa Chang said the Researchers in Business grant is an outstanding Australian Government initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt brings both academia and industry partners together to foster stronger links and collaboration to achieve innovative solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contacts:<\/strong> Don Griffiths; School of Information Systems; Curtin; 08 9266 7691; don.griffiths@cbs.curtin.edu.au<\/a> OR A\/Professor Vanessa Chang; Head of School Information Systems; Curtin; 08 9266 7027; Vanessa.Chang@curtin.edu.au<\/a> OR Peter James; Managing Director; Secure Systems; 08 9202 8333; pjames@securesystems.com.au<\/a> OR Monique Billstein; Public Relations; Curtin; 08 9266 3353; 0401 103 018; M.Billstein@curtin.edu.au<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Â鶹ֱ²¥ of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been selected for an Australian Government Enterprise Connect Researchers in Business grant to help design security software for a portable application device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17513","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}