Back up your hard disk

Caroline uses her personal data space to back up her hard disk data …

CipherMe eliminates worries over computer crashes and lost material. You can use your personal data space to archive data from your local computer hard disk on a secured remote server.

Attempts at this type of network storage have always been compromised by a centralised storage point and the fact that the storage provider has always been unable to give convincing guarantees that no one else could access, exploit or hack into the user’s data. Here, the technology itself, not the storage provider’s word, assures you that your data is anonymous and secure, because even the storage provider cannot access the content of the data stored.

Remote global access

Peter is working in a distributed work team and travels a lot, but needs to access actual project documentation at any time…

CipherMe enables individuals to use remote servers as they would use hard disks and, through encryption, ensures that only those who have access rights are able to access the data.

Owners of a secured personal data space can create shared workspaces by granting access rights to a community of persons. Users travelling a lot or working on different computers no longer need to remember which version of a document is the most recent one and where to find it , for it is stored on his or her private data space on the remote server. People can access a personal data space anywhere and at any time through a secured portal.

Ron is managing director of a leading pharmaceutical company with a worldwide sales network. He has to make sure that his sales representatives get immediate access to the most actual contact details of the customers in the specific district they cover – while at the same time protecting such sensitive data against unauthorized access and misuse.

Users can export MS Outlook contacts into a secured data space. Once located in the personal data space, this electronic address book can be accessed by any Internet-enabled device, including handhelds (PDAs, Pocket PCs,..). A data space owner can also grant access rights to either individuals or groups of persons for selected items in his/her personal contact list and thus rapidly and easily share Outlook contacts with others.

Especially companies have very demanding security and access control needs. The centralized administration and control of contact details – which represent an invaluable capital of a company – within a secured data space avoids redundant and distributed storage of sensitive data while at the same time protecting them against unauthorized access and minimizing the risk of data losses. There is only one single source point of information for all and the format of the information stored correspond to the needs or common standards of a company. Access rights are granted on an individual basis corresponding to the specific profile of an employee, i.e. an employee only gets access to those contacts being of relevance for his or her specific task. Authorized users get immediate access to the required information at any time, wherever they are and on any device. Access rights can be modified and revoked at any time: E.g., once an employee leaves the company, his or her access rights are immediately cancelled.

Data sharing

Emily wants to share pictures of her new-born baby with her parents and friends …

You can upload and store any kind of data objects in your personal data space (text files, pictures from your digital camera, audio files, executables, application data files, etc.). If you want to share one or more selected items in your data space with other CipherMe users, all you have to do is to grant them access to those items. There is no need to send the documents, files or pictures through a public or private network!

Create your digital safe deposit box

Keith wants to keep valuable and important records, documents and data in a safe place which is easy to access in case they are needed …

Just as physical valuables, personal records and important data need safe storage, and just as you store your physical valuables in a safe deposit box at your bank, you can store valuable information, data and records digitally in your personal data space. Your personal data space is like a virtual vault where each single item is stored in its own safe deposit box which is locked with a key. Only you know what is inside! But unlike the safe deposit box at your bank, you can access your digital safe deposit box from anywhere and at any time.

Take your medical data with you

Marc wants to make sure that his medical records are centralised, under his own control and are always available…

Individual’s medical data is dispersed amongst doctors, hospitals, laboratories and medical centres. It often has to be duplicated - causing loss of time and additional costs - and in most cases is out of reach for the majority of patients.

CipherMe allows you to store and centralize your full medical records, medication history, laboratory results, X-rays and other information in your personal data space while ensuring full privacy protection. Your doctor and other health care providers can directly access selected data in your health record through a dedicated secured portal.

Such electronic health records stored in a highly secured environment ensure improved medical decision-making, reduce medical errors, minimise paperwork hassles and costs and improve quality of care and continuity in treatment.

Secured emails

Pat wants to get rid of Spam, viruses and junk mail …

CipherMe enables the user to receive and to send secured emails effectively protecting from Spam, viruses and unwanted emails. Users have the possibility to create cryptographically secured digital post boxes - each box dedicated to an individual sender. The user can create new boxes or close old ones at will.

Furthermore, this service is best suited for small Business that have need for secured emails but do not have their own mail server.

Identity and entitlement documents

Chester does not want to carry around his passport and driving licence all the time …

CipherMe revolutionises the way personal security documents are organised and used. People no longer have to carry around a multiplicity of plastic cards, entitlement letters, or proofs of identity.

The owner of a personal CipherMe data space builds up a collection of his or her identity and entitlement documents which are digitally signed by the issuer or trusted entities at points of verification like banks, public authorities, insurance companies etc. There may be several digital signatures under each object strengthening its identity assertion.

For example, passports, driving licences, insurance certificates or visas could be stored in a personal data space, saving the need to carry all or any of the original documents. All this data is stored on a server within an anonymous and secure environment, not on a smart card and not even the storage provider can access it!