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2004 Media Coverage


Media Coverage from 2004

USA Today
Some CEOs Surf Web To See How They're Being Portrayed
By Del Jones
28 December 2004
Contactless News
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
Rediff.com
What's Phishing? How to be Safe?
20 December 2004
FCW.com
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.
Buildings Magazine
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.
The Economist
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.
SecureID News
Open Security Exchange Announces New Board
2 December 2004
CoreStreet named to Open Security Exchange board.
CSO
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."
GSN
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.
The Industry Standard
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.
SecureID News
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.
CR80News
CoreStreet, ASSA ABLOY Show Off World's First Disconnected, Intelligent Locks
11 October 2004
Lehman Brothers
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."
Computerworld
Smart Door Lock Announced
4 October 2004
The technology will help companies use a single digital credential to secure both logical and physical access.
IDG
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.
Mass High Tech
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.
Mass High Tech
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.
Network World Fusion
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.
PCWorld
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.
Enterprise Systems
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."
ST & D Magazine
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.”
CIO
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."
Computerworld Australia
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."
Network World Fusion
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."
Security Director News
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.
Buildings Magazine
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.
The New Paper
SpoofStick To Fight Fake Sites
6 July 2004
Reuters UK
How To Outfox The Email Scammers
By Bernhard Warner
23 June 2004
Washington Technology
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."
PC World
Booming Web Scam
By Steve Bass
9 June 2004
"It's a scammer's paradise out there"
Computerworld Australia
Phear of Phishing
By Deborah Radcliff
30 May 2004
Miami Herald
New Toolbar Add-On Goes Phisher Fishing
By Rebecca Rohan
15 June 2004
Louisiana Times - Picayune
Phishing for Trouble
By Allan Hoffman
9 June 2004
Washington Post
Spoofstick 1.0
By Rebecca Rohan
6 June 2004
Kansas City Star
The Phight Against Phishing
By David Hayes
1 June 2004
St. Petersburg Times
Software to Help Avoid Phishing Hooks
31 May 2004
Network World Fusion
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."
Newark Star-Ledger
Phishing Grows as a Threat
30 May 2004
New York Times
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."
Businessweek
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."
Boston Globe
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"
InfoWorld
CoreStreet's President Receives InfoWorld's Innovators 2004 Award
By John Udell
21 May 2004
"CoreStreet Targets Massively Scalable Validation"
CardTechnology.com
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."
CIO
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."
ZDNet
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"
WBIX.com
Conference Call [Real Audio]
26 February 2004
Radio interview with CoreStreet's President . This clip requires the Real Audio Player
Mass High Tech
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."
Boston Herald
CoreStreet Shows Credentials with VC Round
By Jon Chesto
23 February 2004
Hoovers
CoreStreet Secures POD Funding
23 February 2004
Venture Wire
CoreStreet Secures $8.5M in Series B Financing [pdf]
23 February 2004
CNET News
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."
Network World Fusion
Let's Get Physical
By Tim Greene
12 January 2004
“IT security must include locked doors and premises protection, not just firewalls.”
CIO
Ask the Expert
January 2004
“, president of Cambridge, Mass.-based CoreStreet, answers your questions about the convergence between physical and IT security.”