Omnisec AG – Your First Choice as an ICT Security Partner

Vulnerabilities abound wherever use is made of a modern ICT infrastructure. Your primary concern is that your organization’s information – whether spoken or in written form, whether transmitted over cables, fibers, microwave, satellite or radio links – can never be overheard, duplicated or manipulated by prying competitors or hostile adversaries.

As a supplier of highest-grade encryption solutions, Omnisec fully understands your need for information risk management regarding your ICT processes. We can offer you leading-edge ICT security solutions addressing the issues of:

•    Confidentiality. Your information exchanges need to be protected from being viewed by unauthorized individuals. Our unique encryption techniques are specifically designed for this purpose.
•    Integrity. You want to be sure that your data cannot be modified. Related issues are authentication and non-repudiation. We guarantee these by means of our secure message digests.
•    Availability. You need to have complete confidence in the equipment you use, as regards both consistent functionality and resistance to external influences. Our devices have a proven, extremely high reliability and built-in robustness. Featured in their design are failsafe facilities and – where appropriate – automatic selection of alternative routes.

Omnisec, a private company, is the world’s leading supplier of high-quality encryption products and comprehensive ICT security solutions. Being fully Swiss, Omnisec’s products are not subject to any export restrictions relating to encryption technology. We are also not part of any corporate, industrial, or financial group, and are thus completely independent.

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Omnisec offers a wide range of versatile, scalable ICT security systems, as well as tailor-made encryption products for customers in civil government, military organizations, financial institutions and international industries.

All of Omnisec’s products are developed in-house by our team of highly qualified and innovative R&D engineers, and are based on our own proprietary cryptographic technology, using customized Security Modules which remain exclusively under your control as customer. No third party of any kind – neither public Certificate Authorities nor government agencies nor we as supplier – have access to your private encryption keys, nor, of course to the information protected by them.

Omnicrypt™ Security Architecture

Omnisec’s answer for organizations requiring the highest possible grade security is unique and innovative: the Omnicrypt™ Security Architecture (OSA).

OSA avoids the unacceptable operational or technical vulnerabilities incurred by other off-the-shelf solutions which promise confidentiality, integrity and availability of transmitted data. Although these all use some form of cryptography to encrypt messages and files or to verify digital signatures, they often involve manually entering the keys, storing them on a computer or server, exchanging them across a public network, or depositing them with third parties.

In contrast, OSA is based on the following four fundamental building blocks:

•    Key Management. A customer’s symmetric Master Keys are generated automatically from a random, “white noise” source, using a highly sophisticated, tamper-proof device, known as the Security Module Programmer.

The Master Keys are stored on small hardware tokens, called Security Modules (SMs), and never leave them in any form. These SMs must be physically transferred by the customer to the sites participating in the secure network and inserted into the relevant encryption devices. Once installed, the SMs use the secret Master Keys to produce unique, short-lived Session Keys, which are each used once and only once.

•    Hardware. Each Omnisec encryption device constitutes the critical border between the “red” zone, where sensitive information is accessible in clear form, and the “black” zone, where it is protected by encryption. For this reason, very special hardware design measures are used to suppress crosstalk between the circuits carrying plain information and those handling the cryptogram. Refined test facilities ensure that no data-carrying radiation leaves the device.

•    Cryptography. The encryption algorithms developed by Omnisec, together with the secret symmetric Session Keys provided by the Security Module, offer unsurpassed levels of security. Connection-oriented encryption is based on our proprietary Stream Ciphers, whereas protocol-oriented encryption makes use of our Block Ciphers.

•    Operational Security. For the user, the main advantage of encryption equipment based on OSA is that the complex functions – key generation, key renewal, and permanent monitoring to prevent inadvertent plain transmission – are performed automatically, in the background, without requiring any operator interaction. The highly sophisticated security procedures thus do not depend on the reliability or skill of the operating personnel. Operators also appreciate the fact that they cannot be blackmailed for key information, as they never see any keys.
Unique and Verifiable Encryption Products

Uncompromising security combined with user-friendly handling can only be realized if the software and hardware are conceived and produced as one unit – as is practised by Omnisec across its entire security portfolio.

•    The Fax Encryptor Omnisec 525 is easy to operate and universally deployable over PSTN, ISDN, IP, wireless networks or satellite connections

•    For fast connections with large amounts of data, the high-speed Multi-Link Encryptors of the Omnisec 660 series offer protection independent of the protocol in use. Due to their modular setup and the variety of available interfaces, these products can be used flexibly, thus protecting and optimizing your investment

•    The IP VPN Encryptors of the Omnisec 420 series turn every IP network into a maximum security and efficient IP-based Virtual Private Network (VPN)

•    Omnisec Secure Collaboration is an innovative and complete solution for minimizing risks: a comprehensive, web-based tool offering effective and lasting protection against unauthorized access through unique authentication and encryption methods. It makes use of a central, high-security ICT infrastructure offering flexible authorization and access rights at the community, group, user and document levels. Another security feature is the traceability of all activities, ensuring that this solution is inherently auditable

•    The Secure Telephones Omnisec 222 let you make phone calls without fear of wiretaps across any PSTN, ISDN, IP, or satellite network

•    Our Secure Radio family enables easy-to-operate, centrally manageable, digital voice transmission, excellent voice quality, and enhanced coverage using a wide range of handheld, mobile or fixed radios

•    Omnisec's Secure Endpoint Solutions constitute a flexible, uncompromising and dependable system for protecting laptops, PDAs and smart phones, including connections through different networks such as GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Bluetooth and WLAN.

Consult Omnisec as your ICT security partner and we assure you of a professional service tailored to meet your specific needs.

See our website www.omnisec.ch for further information or contact us via e-mail: info@omnisec.ch