2004 Media Coverage
Media Coverage from 2004

- Some CEOs Surf Web To See How They're Being Portrayed
- By Del Jones
- 28 December 2004

- Year Of Convergence In '05 As Smart Cards And Secure ID Systems Unite It And Physical Security
- By
- 23 December 2004
- CoreStreet president's security predictions for 2005

- What's Phishing? How to be Safe?
- 20 December 2004

- Two Converging Worlds: Cyber and Physical Security
- By Dibya Sarkar
- 13 December 2004
- Not long ago, government agencies and other organizations had two sets of security guards: one group protecting buildings, offices, labs and other physical structures; the other monitoring networks for hackers and other cybercriminals. But that's changing.

- Top 100 Products Editors' Choice 2004 [pdf]
- 4 December 2004
- CoreStreet's KeyFastT technology meets enterprise needs for physical and logical access to provide the highest possible security from door to device to desktop.

- Security Through Viral Propagation
- 2 December 2004
- The idea is that the same computer database that gives employees of a firm or government access privileges online also opens (or closes) doors for them. The twist, however, is that the doors need not have a permanent, hard-wired connection to the central computer.

- Open Security Exchange Announces New Board
- 2 December 2004
- CoreStreet named to Open Security Exchange board.

- Toolbox: Of Padlocks and Passwords
- 1 December 2004
- This fall, CoreStreet and Swedish lock maker Assa Abloy announced a most interesting twist on access management, which the two companies tout as "the world's first disconnected intelligent door locks."

- At C-Level - CoreStreet & ASSA ABLOY
- 15 November 2004
- The partnership between ASSA ABLOY and CoreStreet takes the best of the identity management worlds and merges it with the best in the physical locking world. This will allow us to produce products that would provide the U.S. Government and others the ability to secure many more things than they would have in the past.

- Online Identity Theft: Many Medicines, No Cure
- By Paul Roberts
- 2 November 2004
- As the incidence of online identity theft has steadily climbed in recent months, banks and online retailers have struggled to stay on top of the problem and to protect their customers, whose personal financial information and online account details are coveted by criminals.

- CoreStreet, ASSA ABLOY Show Off World's First Disconnected, Intelligent Locks
- 11 October 2004
- The new, intelligent locks cost-effectively extend the reach of existing security infrastructures.

- CoreStreet, ASSA ABLOY Show Off World's First Disconnected, Intelligent Locks
- 11 October 2004

- Security Industry Annual Report
- 7 October 2004
- "CoreStreet is a leading provider of products and solutions for identity management and access control, involving control of physical and logical access to buildings, computer networks, applications and devices."

- Smart Door Lock Announced
- 4 October 2004
- The technology will help companies use a single digital credential to secure both logical and physical access.

- Assa Abloy, CoreStreet Release 'Intelligent' Locks
- By Paul Roberts
- 29 September 2004
- The technology will help companies use a single digital credential to secure both logical and physical access, even for remote facilities with no connection to an organization's main network.

- Breaking Free to Help Prevent Break-Ins
- By Jeff Miller
- 27 September 2004
- The world’s leading lock maker, Sweden-based Assa Abloy, this week is launching its first door locks powered by security systems developed by CoreStreet.

- CoreStreet Wins Patent For Distributed Validation Security Technology
- 21 September 2004
- The patent covers technology that enables the validation of credentials across a distributed infrastructure.

- Feds Eyeing One Access Model For All
- By Ellen Messmer
- 20 September 2004
- A mandate from President Bush has required the entire federal government to adopt common technology to be used to identify employees and contractors accessing federally controlled networks and buildings.

- New Tools Fight Phishing Scams
- By Tom Spring
- 20 September 2004
- Swindlers combine spam with hoax sites to try to rip off your personal data.

- Digital Certificates Get Pentagon, Regulatory Boost
- By Mathew Schwartz
- 8 September 2004
- "Once they seemed doomed, but public key infrastructure is taking off, driven by e-commerce servers, Pentagon requirements, and government regulations."

- A Story of Multi-Technology Access Control
- By Robert F. Lang
- 1 September 2004
- “Many people abide by the axiom, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." However...we can't sit on our hands and ignore advancements in access technology.”

- Fighting Phish, Fakes and Frauds
- By Alice Dragoon
- 1 September 2004
- " Companies on the front lines of the phishing wars share tactics for making their sites spoof-proof and protecting online transactions."

- CoreStreet has Identity Management Covered on a Massive Scale
- By Dave Kearns
- 17 August 2004
- "CoreStreet's answer is to improve efficiency - from 100 interactions per second up to thousands or tens of thousands."

- CoreStreet Scales Digital Certificates
- By Rodney Thayer
- 9 August 2004
- "What's the point of deploying a digital certificate infrastructure if you can't readily check the status of certificates? That's where CoreStreet's Real Time Credentials comes in."

- Defining Security: Is The Glass Half Empty Or Half Full?
- By
- July 2004
- CoreStreet's president explains how, with the right approach, security can cease being restrictive and take on an enabling, positive role in daily life.

- Leveraging the Infrastructure
- By
- July 2004
- CoreStreet's VP of Physical Security explains how convergence of logical and physical security, long considered the "holy grail" of the security industry, is now, finally, achievable.

- SpoofStick To Fight Fake Sites
- 6 July 2004

- How To Outfox The Email Scammers
- By Bernhard Warner
- 23 June 2004

- Tech Success: SRA Gets to Core of PKI Challenges
- By Brad Grimes
- 21 June 2004
- "Under a contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency, SRA launched a pilot using technology from CoreStreet Ltd. of Cambridge, Mass., to speed the process of checking common access card users against the Defense Department's certificate revocation list."

- Booming Web Scam
- By Steve Bass
- 9 June 2004
- "It's a scammer's paradise out there"

- Phear of Phishing
- By Deborah Radcliff
- 30 May 2004

- New Toolbar Add-On Goes Phisher Fishing
- By Rebecca Rohan
- 15 June 2004

- Phishing for Trouble
- By Allan Hoffman
- 9 June 2004

- Spoofstick 1.0
- By Rebecca Rohan
- 6 June 2004

- The Phight Against Phishing
- By David Hayes
- 1 June 2004

- Software to Help Avoid Phishing Hooks
- 31 May 2004

- Phear of Phishing
- By Deborah Radcliff
- 30 May 2004
- "By hijacking the trusted brands of well-known banks, online retailers and credit card companies, phishers convince up to 5% of recipients to respond to them."

- Phishing Grows as a Threat
- 30 May 2004

- Escape From the Clutches of a Counterfeit Web Site
- By Chris Larson
- 27 May 2004
- "A recent report from Gartner Research estimated that close to two million people last year may have inadvertently submitted personal information at a spoofed site."

- How to Avoid the "Phish" Hook
- By Amey Stone
- 24 May 2004
- "Phishing e-mails were once almost always unprofessionally worded and the spoofed sites clearly fake, now it's pretty hard to tell."

- Best News in the War on Spam: Phishing
- By Hiawatha Bray
- 24 May 2004
- "Spoofstick improves your situational awareness while browsing the Web, making it easier to spot fraudulent websites"

- CoreStreet's President Receives InfoWorld's Innovators 2004 Award
- By John Udell
- 21 May 2004
- "CoreStreet Targets Massively Scalable Validation"

- What's Coming In U.S. Government Smart Cards
- By Donald Davist
- 14 May 2004
- "The Defense Department is using a refinement of the OCSP concept developed by U.S.-based CoreStreet Ltd. This system sends presigned responses for all the CAC certificates ever issued to servers twice each day."

- Free from Fear
- By Chris Lindquist
- 12 April 2004
- "For IT pros, it's pretty easy to spot suspicious URLs and simply delete the offending messages, but the average computer user is often fooled. In the interest of community service, CoreStreet has released the SpoofStick."

- Getting the Definition Right
- By
- 5 April 5 2004
- "Instead of thinking about security as just negative and restrictive, think of it as active and enabling. Active security is not just about stopping the bad guys; it's about making the normal lives of the good guys better"

- Conference Call [Real Audio]
- 26 February 2004
- Radio interview with CoreStreet's President . This clip requires the Real Audio Player

- CoreStreet Raises $8.5 Million in B Round
- By Jeff Miller
- 23 February 2004
- "CoreStreet, the Cambridge-based security software company, closed last week on an $8.5 million B round co-led by Updata Partners and Pod Holding."

- CoreStreet Shows Credentials with VC Round
- By Jon Chesto
- 23 February 2004

- CoreStreet Secures POD Funding
- 23 February 2004

- CoreStreet Secures $8.5M in Series B Financing [pdf]
- 23 February 2004

- PKI's Alive and Kicking
- By
- 19 February 2004
- "Once, PKI was hyped as an almost magical solution to almost every IT problem. Then reality set in." , CoreStreet's president, writes
about the current state of PKI and where the technology is headed."

- Let's Get Physical
- By Tim Greene
- 12 January 2004
- “IT security must include locked doors and premises protection, not just firewalls.”

- Ask the Expert
- January 2004
- “, president of Cambridge, Mass.-based CoreStreet, answers your questions about the convergence between physical and IT security.”