Nefsis Cloud-Based Online Services Offer a
More Familiar
Choice for Secure Video Conference Delivery
The growth of online services and
industry standard SSL/TLS encryption
gives IT staff a more familiar
choice in providing secure video communications
services to
their employees
SAN DIEGO — April 21, 2011 — Online services innovator Nefsis®
announced today the addition of more familiar choices for IT staff
considering secure video conference options. The
Nefsis global cloud secures all web, voice over IP (VoIP), and
video data over Secure Socket/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)
encrypted connections. While prevalent in web conferencing and
online services, the use of SSL/TLS connections with public key
infrastructure is not as customary in the video conferencing
industry.
The worldwide growth of online services, including e-commerce and
online banking, has long since established SSL/TLS as the prevailing
standard in providing secure web services. Today, most IT staff
expect their online service providers to use SSL/TLS encrypted
connections with full public key infrastructure (PKI) implementation
using a third-party signed
certificate, certificate authority, and key exchange.
However, most traditional room-based video conferencing systems
do not use PKI since direct room-to-room connections were
historically prevalent, and the overhead and latency it would have
required. As such, telepresence and room-based installations use a
variety of mechanisms, including AES symmetric-key encryption with
manual key management, with some using different methodologies for
voice, video, and data.
“The
architecture and manual key pair management of most room-based
video conferencing systems pre-dates the recent growth of the
Internet. We’re pleased to offer SSL/TLS security with full PKI
implementation — an industry standard approach that’s
more familiar to IT staff today,” said Allen Drennan, Nefsis
chief technology officer.
“We look forward to announcing additional security options
for increasing levels of security requirements.”
About Nefsis
Headquartered in San Diego,
California, Nefsis is a technology specialist in video conferencing
software and cloud computing online services. The Company’s global
cloud provides multipoint HD video and advanced collaboration tools
to business, government and educational customers in more than 45
countries worldwide. Compared to previous generations of
infrastructure hardware solutions, such as video routers, MCUs and
gateways, the Nefsis cloud-based offering is less expensive,
automatically maintained, and easier to expand.
For more information, please visit the Nefsis website or call
+1 (858) 715-0970 in the Americas or +44 (0) 870 224 0415 in the UK
and Europe.
Media Contact
Xenia Moore
Public Relations Manager
Phone: (858) 715-0970
[email protected]
Related Pages
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