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At NMA, we combine deep IT security expertise with high-powered business services technology to provide easy-to-use and secure productivity solutions to our customers. Our solutions support privacy and improve customers' efficiency and competitive positions, at every level of data protection for our customers and their users.

The NMA differential: Easy To Use & Stops Customer Data Theft

Everyone has probably heard the phrase "Any computer can be compromised". This phrase accurately reflects the yet-unsolved security problem of protecting servers and clients against penetration attacks. With this in mind, the security of secure email Zmail is assured not by some fictitious "Fort Knox" type of security that would (vainly) promise to prevent all attacks, but by using NMA's "No Target" ZSENTRY technology that renders such attacks impossible by the sheer lack of existence of user data to attack, anywhere. ZSENTRY allows Zmail to work without ever exposing the users’ private data, passwords, keys, or data.

Therefore, Zmail’s user data and keys are never in danger from outside or inside attacks, neither in the servers providing the service nor in the user’s desktop or laptop client accessing the service. Even though one can argue that an attack may eventually succeed, for example in the case of an attacker who may even physically walk away with any number of servers, no user data would be compromised.

Our productivity solutions protect customer information against unauthorized disclosure, whether due to external or internal attacks, using our easy-to-use ZSentry technology for two-factor authentication, authorization, and key management.

ZSentry works also without JavaScript, enabling user accessibility everywhere including behind company firewalls, in the mobile web, and in compliance with assistive technologies satisfying Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act, the U.S. ADA, and the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

NMA's Productivity Solutions are available On-Demand and On-Site, in respective levels to partners, enterprises, and consumers. The Productivity Solutions include standards compliant secure email Zmail™ for PC, Mac, Linux, and mobile web with verifiable online delivery, standards compliant two-factor Authentication and Authorization SaaS-ST™ (Software-as-a-Service Sans-Target™), and robust help desk automation HelpDeskPower™.

The best defense against data theft is to not have the data in the first place.

With NMA ZSentry protection, if security is breached no customer access data or customer data can be recognized or accessed — there are no customer-relevant attack targets. ZSentry is an ingenious solution to the increasing vulnerability of customers' data in online servers and clients. ZSentry shifts the information security solution space from the yet-unsolved security problem of protecting servers and clients against penetration attacks to a connection reliability problem that is easily solved today. ZSentry can be directly applied to improve conventional access control and key management systems.

We are at your disposal to help you identify new ways to enable your company to serve your customers, while minimizing the risk of exposure. Please contact us using our Support Center.

Ed Gerck, Ph.D. NMA Founder CEO & CTO

In the early stages of developing the ZSentry technology, we had just been reviewing the help files, adding more help links, and really tried to better explain every step. We thought this should make it easier for users. When we explained this "improvement" to a partner who had faced difficulties with her 2,000 users, she told us "We don't need a better explanation of the steps. What we need is less steps." Of course. And this has been our focus — to reduce the number of steps, to reduce what a user has to do, what a user has to learn. User feedback has greatly helped ZSentry applications such as Zmail to be easier to use and much smarter than our developers could ever make them.

Our Vision

To increase security and usability by eliminating attack targets.

Since the early ARPANET days in 1975, our team has worked and contributed worldwide, gathering experience on cryptography, email, network management, and secure application development. We know that the Internet is a network of networks where, generally, no one is able to control both sides of the communication channel. But trust has not evaporated from the Internet; in fact, we find that trust can be induced by properly using multiple communication channels. We know that security is not just a matter of cryptography. We view security as a form of understanding, not of confinement or restriction. But security is not a matter of user education either. We see no inherent conflict between security and usability in our solutions. We believe that The Most Important Feature of a secure system is Usability.

Our vision is to increase security and usability by eliminating attack targets. Because what does not exist cannot be attacked we are able to eliminate entire risk classes, as contrasted to just "reduce" risk. The resulting improved simplicity also improves usability. Our vision is implemented in On-Demand and On-Site offers using our ZSentry™ technology.

Hundreds of thousands of people have used Internet services based on the ZSentry technology, often without realizing that anything out of the ordinary was happening. Behind the scenes, our ZSentry technology was at work to eliminate attack targets such as login, keys, and customer data stored in Internet servers.

The ZSentry technology was first qualified by the Swedish Government's Ministry of Justice Statskontoret in 2001. This was followed by a number of public tests in the US and abroad, as well as component testing in public beta operation with partners, for two-factor authentication, mutual authentication, and anti-phishing.

ZSentry technology fully protects personal and other sensitive information against inappropriate and unauthorized use and disclosure, whether due to external or internal attacks. Usercodes, passwords and user access keys are provided by the ZSentry technology and are not stored. Customer access audit trails and customer data storage can be maintained with encrypted, de-identified numbers, which access keys are provided and secured by the ZSentry technology. With ZSentry™ protection, if security is breached no customer access data or customer data can be recognized or accessed.

NMA's technology is represented in patent-pending IP and software. Technical articles and other references by our team are available at our Papers section.

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