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Media Coverage from 2009


Using PIV cards for physical access: Interview of Bob Dulude and Todd Freyman , Nov 2009

RSA Conference 2009: Technology & Security Vendor Interviews: Tom Field interviews Chris Broderick; BankInfoSecurity.com, May 2009

Understanding card-connected access control systems: By Todd Freyman; SecurityInfoWatch.com, May 2009

CoreStreet announces new products, partnerships at ISC West: SecureIDNews, April 2009

Media Coverage from 2008

: Citizen ID projects: the challenge of making credentials work; By John Bys; ISSE Madrid, October 2008; Click here to view presentation.


CSO Magazine: Case Study: Protection Joe's Office; By Michael Fitzgerald; Summer 2008; "But for Joe, with his new building, he's opted for the CoreStreet Card-Connected system, which combines physical access and IT systems, and uses the employees' smart cards themselves as a way to continually update access information."

Convergence Q&A: The ISCWest Report; By Ray Bernard, PSP, CHS, III; Summer 2008; "The most noteworthy technology introduction that I came across [at ISCWest]...The technology - Card-Connected Access Control -"
: By Chris Corum; Summer 2008; "CoreStreet 'card-connected' access control model merges online and offline security worlds"


From Door to Data: By Russ Gager; April 2008; “Check out the sidebar on "Integrating Stand-Alone Locks”
: Case Studies; March 2008; "County in Pennsylvania uses CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution"

Media Coverage from 2007


Marriage of Convenience: By Mark Diodati; September 2007; “Integrating physical and logical security can bring many benefits to the enterprise, but a successful union isn't easy.”

The logic behind physical-access controls: By David Essex; 23 July 2007; “Unified security systems help manage threats, whether it’s a hacker in China or a shady visitor at the front gate”

CoreStreet's PIVMAN System receives FIPS 201 approval: 20 June 2007; PIVMAN is the fourth CoreStreet product listed on the Approved Product List.

CoreStreet PIVMAN Controls Access: 24 May 2007; The PIVMAN System by CoreStreet Ltd., allows authorized personnel the ability to control access to any site.

PIVMAN selected as finalist for Breakthrough Award: 21 May 2007; “PIVMAN System for Secure ID Checking Honored at CardTech SecurTech Annual Conference”

Phil Libin, Getting real: By William Jackson; 7 May 2007; GCN editor, Bill Jackson, interviews on the implication of Real ID

European e-ID Card Conference Interview with Salvatore A. D'Agostino: 27 April 2007; discusses the importance of global smart credential programs in this video interview

Compatibility dictates rollout of emergency responder, port IDs: By Aliya Sternstein; 12 April 2007

Perspective: Real ID is bad? Compared to what?: By Michael Burnett; 10 April 2007; “A company called CoreStreet has developed a handheld solution that enables military service members to meet HSPD-12 standards and verify FIPS 201 access cards.”

Perspective: Real ID is bad? Compared to what?: By; 5 April 2007; CoreStreet's President gives his perspective on ways to improve REAL ID

U.S. DoD taps CoreStreet for enterprise-wide credential validation deployment: 3 April 2007; The U.S. Department of Defense has selected the CoreStreet Validation Authority to deploy enterprise-wide

Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators: 26 March 2007; Jon Udell interviews CoreStreet's

Super Marketing: By Monica Heger; March 2007; CoreStreet picked an unusual strategy to build buzz for its emergency response gadget -and potential customers are hooked.

DHS Winter Storm Trial Validates FIPS 201 compliant FRAC cardse: 27 February 2007; The PIVMAN handheld from CoreStreet was used to validate the First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC), at the recent Department of Homeland Security's Winter Storm test.

Comic books, but no jokes: 20 February 2006; The PIVMAN comic books illustrate in clear and compelling ways how the PIVMAN software, along with its accompanying handheld device, could help first responders.

Cybertrust, CoreStreet launch government smart card credential validation service: 15 February 2007; Two companies specializing in security have banded together to offer a service aimed at validating FIPS-201 compliant smart cards

CoreStreet wins Pentagon Force Protection Agency HSPD-12 contract: 2 February 2007; “CoreStreet has won a major contract from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency to deploy the PIVMAN system to control access at leased Department of Defense buildings and facilities in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.”

Pentagon deploys handheld PIVMAN system to validate FIPS 201 IDs: By Chris Corum; 29 January 2007; PFPA officers will use Corestreet's PIVMAN identity verification units to authenticate individuals via their FIPS 201 compliant ID cards.

Object Video Stumbling And Other Predictions for 2007: 6 January 2007; CoreStreet's new management and sharpened focus will push the company to solid revenue growth with first responder solutions and the coolest access control solution on the market.

Media Coverage from 2006


PIVMAN System to be deployed in LA: 19 December 2006; “CoreStreet's PIVMAN System has been selected for the City of Los Angeles Urban Area Security Initiative, where it will be deployed with SuperCom's mobile credentialing system.”

Corestreet's PIVMAN breaks into the muncipal market: 18 December 2006; As part of its Urban Area Security Initiative, the city of Los Angeles has recently teamed up with CoreStreet to deploy the company's PIVMAN mobile credentialing system.

ID Vendor Briefs: 14 December 2006; CoreStreet to supply the PIVMAN System to the City of Los Angeles

Vista Renews PC Industry Hopes: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; 13 December 2006; CoreStreet's VP of Engineering discusses Vista's effects

CoreStreet and SuperCom deploy PIVMAN in Los Angeles: 29 November 2006

Analysis: Physical/Logical Security Convergence: By Jeff Forristal; 23 November 2006; While rivals are focusing on offerings to assemble a converged infrastructure, CoreStreet is looking down the road to ways an organization can use that infrastructure.

PIVMAN from CoreStreet provides mobile verification of government IDs: By Andy Williams; 8 November 2006; “CoreStreet, calls its new product, “the first visible end user application to take advantage of smart cards” that have been issued to verify personal identity.”

Podcast: PKI, PIV and the Adventures of PIVMAN: By Dave Birch; 1 November 2006; A conversation with CoreStreet's Jon Shamah about US credentialing and its impact on Europe and beyond.

Your new ID card: By Stephen Losey; 16 October 2006; New smart cards that will be dispensed by agencies Beginning Oct. 27, can be used for a lot more then just gaining access to a building or computer system.

Vendor consortium formed to guide agencies in HSPD-12 compliance and operation: 4 October 2006; CoreStreet, a member of the HSPD-12 Interoperability Consortium, is helping to provide clarity around HSPD-12 compliance

Latest Security Technologies At Maritime Expo: By Jacqueline Emigh; 1 October 2006; PIVMAN provides accurate IDs of emergency responders from multiple organizations.

CoreStreet's PIVMAN System used in DHS maritime demonstration: 25 September 2006; Port officials recently saw up close and personal the role CoreStreet's handheld PIVMAN ID checker could play in reading and verifying FIPS 201-compliant smart cards.

New Smart Card Alliance White Paper Gives Government Agencies Tools to Begin Implementing FIPS 201 Compatible PACS Systems: 25 September 2006; CoreStreet works with the Smart Card Alliance to develop whitepaper on FIPS 201 PACS migration.

CoreStreet Product Checks Smart Card Credentials: 21 September 2006; CoreStreet has introduced a product called PIVMAN designed to check the identification credentials on smart cards.

PIVMan Takes a Step Beyond FIPS: 18 September 2006; “Corestreet Ltd. recently released the PIVMan, a handheld card reader system that validates and authenticates a variety of credentials in the field, with or without an available network connection.”

Federal agencies scramble to meet security deadline: By Elen Messmer, Network World; 18 September 2006; “CoreStreet, for example, last week announced Pivman System, a handheld mobile device intended as a PIV and Defense Department card reader to be used by government personnel responding to emergencies.”

PIV for first responders: By Brad Grimes, GCN Staff; 18 September 2006; “The PIVMAN is a mobile identification checking system that supports the federal government’s new FIPS-201-standard Personal Identity Verification cards, plus a slew of others.”

CoreStreet unveils first HSPD-12 authentication application: 15 September 2006; “Cambridge, Massachusetts-based CoreStreet, already in thick of HSPD-12 infrastructure development, announced this week the availability of its PIVMAN credential authentication system.”

Check out Corestreet's unique marketing with Adventures of PIVMAN comic: 13 September 2006; “At SecureIDNews, we usually try to steer clear of blatant promotion of a company's marketing ... but in this case we couldn't help it.”

CoreStreet launches PIVMAN system: 12 September 2006; CoreStreet has launched the PIVMAN System, which is designed to meet the requirements of US Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201).

Mobile Smart Card Reader Released by CoreStreet: 12 September 2006; PIVMAN is a handheld device, allowing law enforcement agencies setting up perimeters at disaster sites to check the identities of emergency response workers

CoreStreet's PIVMAN System delivers secure ID checking for government smart credentials: 12 September 2006; CoreStreet has announced the release of its PIVMAN System that includes a handheld device that can read all FIPS 201 compliant cards.

CoreStreet releases mobile smart card reader: By Grant Gross, IDG News Service; 12 September 2006; The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has used the PIVMAN System in four recent exercises.

Superman, Batman…PIVMAN?: 11 September 2006; Security company CoreStreet has published a series of comic books to promote its PIVMAN mobile personal identity verification (PIV) card reader.

Agencies, industry ramp up HSPD-12 efforts: 25 August 2006; Late August has seen a flurry of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 activity.

Who's on first?: 7 August 2006; Chris Broderick joins CoreStreet, Ltd. as CEO

A security association worth associating with: By Brad Grimes & Joab Jackson; 2 August 2006; The Open Security Exchange is developing a roadmap for convergence of physical and IT security.

Interoperability is an access problem: 31 July 2006; Agencies are looking to industry for guidance in implementing systems that will leverage new HSPD-12 PIV cards.

Achieving Security by Tying Identities to Digital Assets: By Fran Howarth; 17 July 2006; This initiative from the pharmaceutical industry is just one example of how emerging technologies such as federated identity management and DRM can be used to help organisations achieve efficiency goals.

Identity to Become the Key Technology Focus: 5 July 2006; “By 2020 digital identities will have a significant impact on the daily lives of the world's population.”

Healthcare exec talks security: By Wade-Hahn Chan; 3 July 2006; Several information security companies are collaborating to help agencies comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.

CoreStreet Names New CEO: 29 June 2006; Smart credential software provider CoreStreet has appointed Chris Broderick as its new CEO.

Card-based PKI to better secure doctor's communications: 28 June 2006; “The SAFE framework gives companies the ability to sign regulatory and commercial transactions in a legally enforceable way that is much faster and simpler.”

The Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council Helps With FIPS 201 Implementation for Physical Access Control: 6 June 2006; The Physical Access Council is on a great path, providing invaluable tools for government agencies implementing physical access control systems that meet federal requirements like FIPS 201.

Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council Announces First Year Successes, New Officers, Upcoming Initiatives: 5 June 2006; CoreStreet's joins the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council Steering Committee

Healthcare exec talks security: By Ellen Messmer; 25 May 2006; Pfizer's IT director discusses the SAFE Bio-Pharma bridge.

Defogging Identity-Based Access Control: By; 24 May 2006; CoreStreet offers a simple explanation of a complex new concept that’s changing physical access control

Eight Security Vendors Well Worth Knowing: 15 May 2006; “CoreStreet offers a validation system that integrates digital identities for both network and physical access, letting companies lock their doors using the same lists they use for network access”

10 Security Vendors You've Never Heard Of: 30 April 2006; “CoreStreet's technology lets companies lock their doors using the same access lists they use to restrict network access, eliminating the cost and complexity of managing separate systems.”

In Safe Hands: 28 April 2006; “Tech companies like IBM, Adobe and CoreStreet are already developing the SAFE compliant products that the drug industry’s doctors, researchers and scientists will use to send, receive and, crucially, ‘digitally sign’ documentation.”

Industry Officials Discuss Plans for Meeting Federal ID Standards: By Michael Martinez; 19 April 2006; “Security and technology experts...discussed strategies that private manufacturers can implement to meet federal standards for government identification cards and security systems.”

SIA and Corestreet Debut New FIPS 201 Compliance Report: 28 March 2006

SIA Partners With CoreStreet for IT and Physical Security Report: 22 March 2006; “This report is the ideal executive summary of FIPS 201”

CoreStreet to Provide Validation Technology for Global Biopharmaceutical Initiative; Annual Industry Savings of $200 Million Projected as Industry Implements SAFE-BioPharma Digital Identity: 13 February 2006

Media Coverage from 2005


IT and Informatics Weekly New Product Roundup: By Salvatore Salamone; 9 November 2005; “...Announced they will develop SAFE-enabled products and applications that would give life science companies a way to securely share information and ensure that FDA and other regulatory requirements are met when data is shared.”

SAFE-Biopharma Association Announces First Companies to Participate in its Newly Launched Vendor Partner Program: 29 December 2005; “Adobe, Arcot Systems, CoreStreet, nCipher, IBM, and Kyberpass are the first to participate..."”

Security Concerns, Tech Shifts = Growth (excerpt): By Jeffrey T. Kessler, Scott Schneeberger, and Manav Patnaik; 10 November 2005; “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.”

Pros and Cons of Biometrics: By; 5 November 2005; “The field of biometrics is a polarizing and controversial topic, with multiple voices debating the advantages and merits of the technology.”

GENNETT SA Partners with CoreStreet to Bring Single-Credential Security Solutions to Southeastern Europe: 3 November 2005

Two Companies Converging on Physical and IT Security: 1 November 2005

Bringing Convergent Security Products to the Commercial Sector [pdf]: October 2005; This article appeared in the “Airport Security” section of the October issue.

Portable ID Readers Will Become More Prevalent [pdf]: 31 October 2005; “At the end of the day, you are moving from a visual world to a validated, electronically confirmed world.”

GENNETT SA Partners with CoreStreet to Bring Single-Credential Security Solutions to Southeastern Europe.: 31 October 2005

GENNETT SA Partners with CoreStreet to Bring Single-Credential Security Solutions to Southeastern Europe.: 31 October 2005

GENNETT SA Partners with CoreStreet to Bring Single-Credential Security Solutions to Southeastern Europe.: 31 October 2005

Transportation's response to Katrina: By; 20 October 2005; Read the Q & A with CoreStreet's on the response to Hurricane Katrina.

Changing Channels [pdf]: 3 October 2005

Role Playing; Rule Making: By; 1 October 2005; “Ask any security director in a mid-to-large company about centrally controlling and managing doors, and they'll probably answer with something along the lines of.”

Plan ahead to maximize benefits to HSPD-12 investment: By David Belchick; 1 October 2005; "Few initiatives have affected as many individuals in as many agencies. Certainly, the card is the most visible part of this initiative, aiming to bring about the convergence of physical and IT security."

Birth of the Business Blog: 27 September 2005

The Threat With the Most Disaster Potential: By Bill Brenner; 21 September 2005; “As anyone living in the security world knows, it's getting harder to separate physical security from cyber and other issues.”

Adding Your Voice to the Conversation. Why CEOs Should Blog: By Jeneane D. Sessum; 19 September 2005; “As anyone living in the security world knows, it's getting harder to separate physical security from cyber and other issues.”

Omnikey and CoreStreet Partner on FIPS 201 Compliance: By Jeneane D. Sessum; 19 September 2005; “The companies worked jointly to develop the bundled solution, drawing on Omnikey's expertise in card reader technology and CoreStreet's validation technology.”

OMNIKEY Bundles Smart Card Readers with CoreStreet Validation Technology for FIPS 201 Compliance: 16 September 2005

Indala, CoreStreet Combining Products: 16 September 2005

Strategic Partnership Develops CoreStreet-Enabled Modules for Converged Products: 12 September 2005

OSE Stresses Physical and Logical Convergence at ASIS: 9 September 2005

6 smart ways to use smart credentials: By Florence Olsen; 5 September 2005

DOD Looks to Put Pizzazz Back in PKI: By Ellen Messmer; 15 August 2005; “The U.S. military has started the process of making critical changes to its public-key infrastructure.”

A Conversation with CoreStreet's About Physical and Virtual Security: By Jon Udell; 19 July 2005; speaks with Jon Udell on the future of unified physical and logical security; Listen to the entire audio interview [19MB, mp3]

German Law Paves Way for RFID Passports: By Gene J. Koprowski; 14 July 2005; As Germany moves forward with its smartcard-based passport program, many are concerned about the privacy and security implications surrounding such initiatives.

Lower Costs, Bigger Benefits: By Ray Bernard; 5 June 2005; “IT Company Revolutionizes Physical Security--CoreStreet Ltd. of Cambridge, MA, uses established IT security technologies (PKI-based digital signatures and messaging that follow related IT standards) in a unique patented architecture for smart card-based access control systems. The benefits derive from using the cardholders as the network and using access control smart cards to carry system messages.”

Secure Validation - Anytime, Anywhere [pdf]: By Mark Lockie; June 2005; An "e-passports" interview with CoreStreet president .

Technology Alarmism in Spades: By; 17 May 2005; CoreStreet's writes about concerns surrounding the recent EPIC Homeland Security ID Card report.

Validating DoD: By Michael Fickes; 1 May 2005; “The Department of Defense (DoD) may have overcome a major barrier to implementing a secure, government-wide credential for physical and logical access...”

The Identity Standard: By; 25 April 2005; CoreStreet's Vice President discusses the security and privacy implications of the FIPS 201 specification.

Compliance: A Horse is a Horse: By Dave Kearns; 18 April 2005

Wireless World: Smart-cards Vs. RFID Tags: By Gene J. Koprowski; 1 April 2005; "Very soon, international travelers will be able to breeze through customs checkpoints using passports outfitted with contactless smart-cards"

Biometrics Takes on Physical Access: By John Moore; 7 March 2005; In general, variables to consider include fast throughput, high reliability, ease of use and the cost for acquiring, installing and maintaining the technology

Government Braces for Key Security Standard: By Ellen Messmer; 28 February 2005; The National Institute of Standards and Technology last week raced to meet a weekend deadline to issue a smart-card standard that will be the basis for products that give federal employees and contractors secure access to networks and buildings.

CoreStreet Releases First Responder: By Florence Olsen; 22 February 2005; “CoreStreet officials say they can validate digital credentials in emergency situations in which public-safety and public health employees have no access to a secure network or database of valid credentials.”

Defense Picks Two for PKI: 16 February 2005

Common Access Card's PKI Speeds Up with Corestreet Technology: 11 February 2005; CoreStreet's certificate validation technology has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for its Common Access Card (CAC) program. The new technology will significantly expedite the use of the deployed PKI for email and document signing.

Defense Makes Digital Validation Apps Available: By Dawn Onley; 8 February 2005; The Defense Department has rolled out two applications to validate the authenticity of digital signatures for its Common Access Card program.

PKI Providers Picked by DoD: By Doug Beizer; 7 February 2005; To address validation response time issues, CoreStreet introduced a new architecture called Distributed Online Certificate Status Protocol that cuts validation time to 65 milliseconds.

Presidential Directive is the Prime Mover Behind Security Convergence: By Matt Kelly; 24 January 2005; "Security is no longer performed quietly in the basement of the building, now security plays an instrumental role in compliance with regulations, protection of personal information, and enabling many business processes."

Some CEOs Surf Web to See How They're Being Portrayed: By Del Jones; 4 January 2005

Media Coverage from 2004


Some CEOs Surf Web To See How They're Being Portrayed: By Del Jones; 28 December 2004

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

What's Phishing? How to be Safe?: 20 December 2004

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.

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.

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.

Open Security Exchange Announces New Board: 2 December 2004; CoreStreet named to Open Security Exchange board.

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."

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.

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.

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.

CoreStreet, ASSA ABLOY Show Off World's First Disconnected, Intelligent Locks: 11 October 2004

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."

Smart Door Lock Announced: 4 October 2004; The technology will help companies use a single digital credential to secure both logical and physical access.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.”

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."

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."

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."

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.

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.

SpoofStick To Fight Fake Sites: 6 July 2004

How To Outfox The Email Scammers: By Bernhard Warner; 23 June 2004

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."

Booming Web Scam: By Steve Bass; 9 June 2004; "It's a scammer's paradise out there"

Phear of Phishing: By Deborah Radcliff; 30 May 2004

New Toolbar Add-On Goes Phisher Fishing: By Rebecca Rohan; 15 June 2004

Phishing for Trouble: By Allan Hoffman; 9 June 2004

Spoofstick 1.0: By Rebecca Rohan; 6 June 2004

The Phight Against Phishing: By David Hayes; 1 June 2004

Software to Help Avoid Phishing Hooks: 31 May 2004

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."

Phishing Grows as a Threat: 30 May 2004

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."

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."

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"

CoreStreet's President Receives InfoWorld's Innovators 2004 Award: By John Udell; 21 May 2004; "CoreStreet Targets Massively Scalable Validation"

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."

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."

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"

Conference Call [Real Audio]: 26 February 2004; Radio interview with CoreStreet's President . This clip requires the Real Audio Player

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."

CoreStreet Shows Credentials with VC Round: By Jon Chesto; 23 February 2004

CoreStreet Secures POD Funding: 23 February 2004

CoreStreet Secures $8.5M in Series B Financing [pdf]: 23 February 2004

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."

Let's Get Physical: By Tim Greene; 12 January 2004; “IT security must include locked doors and premises protection, not just firewalls.”

Ask the Expert: January 2004; “, president of Cambridge, Mass.-based CoreStreet, answers your questions about the convergence between physical and IT security.”

Media Coverage for 2003


Key To The Future [pdf]: December 2003; By Carolyn Heinze; ", president of CoreStreet, points to the blurring line between "physical" security and IT-based systems. "You can spend a lot of money for the best IT security, but if your physical security is lacking, people can just walk in and physically steal your computers."

The Other Side of the Table: 26 December 2003; By Linda Godspeed; “CoreStreet Ltd. of Cambridge was one of those rare startups that had two likely offers of venture capital from which to choose.”

Key to Safety: Steps Under Way For A Shift From Passive To Active Security: 22 December 2003; “The gap between physical security and IT security will continue to narrow with systems designed to handle both.”

The 2004 Security Survivor's Guide: 22 December 2003; By Mike Fratto; “CoreStreet: This company's credential-verification system is useful for both connected and disconnected electronic locks as well as for digital certificates.”

Securities Exchange [pdf]: 3 December 2003; "CoreStreet uses cryptographic technology to create a security system that permits control of access to doors and databases."

NCipher and CoreStreet Team on Crypto: 2 December 2003; By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service; "Cryptographic security company nCipher is teaming up with user credentialing startup CoreStreet Ltd. to sell technology that can supply digital credentials to millions of users over computer networks and disconnected "offline" environments."

OSE Group Signs on New Members: 6 November 2003

Four Organizations Implement CoreStreet Validation System: 21 October 2003; “The company's technology is being used by four large organizations, including two large government agencies. One of the private companies using the system is Sweden-based security company Assa Abloy, which announced that it was developing locks that use CoreStreet's technology.”

Digital Doorman Prototype: November 2003; “CoreStreet has developed a wireless identity verification system that stores authorization information at each lock. By eliminating wiring, the system allows you to control access to things you can't right now, including airplane cockpits and trucks transporting hazardous cargo.”

Q&A: Securing the Door as Important as Securing the Data: 8 October 2003; By Mathew Schwartz; “More organizations are tasking their chief security officers with control of (and responsibility for) securing both the electronic and physical realms.”

Permissions on the Edge: 26 September 2003; By Jon Udell; “We'll always have to manage permissions centrally. But CoreStreet's method of distributing them to the edge of the network - and beyond - strikes me as an excellent way to tackle a thorny logistical problem.”

Opinion: 22 September 2003; By Mark Hall; “Split ID management can secure physical and virtual assets more effectively than traditional security measures...”

CoreStreet Secures Deal With No. 1 Lock-Maker: 15 September 2003; By Jeff Miller; “CoreStreet Ltd., a security software company in Cambridge, has inked a deal to integrate its technology into locks made by the world's largest lock manufacturer, Assa Abloy of Sweden.”

Product Reviews [pdf]: 6 August 2003; By Mike Bobbitt; “CoreStreet's RTC VA shows impressive innovation in turning a solid, but challenging IETF OCSP draft into a scalable, real-time solution.”

Company Profile: CoreStreet, Ltd. [pdf]: 14 July 2003; “The company raised $4 million in April and will be tripling its U.S. office space in August. CoreStreet expects to double employee headcount in the next year.”

Review: CoreStreet's Real Time Credentials Validation Authority: 10 July 2003; By Mike Fratto; “RTCVA is a useful product for certificate validation, and the performance gains of pre-generating OCSP responses and the decreased exposure of the signing RTCVA being off-line are compelling to any organization using digital certificates.”

CoreStreet Offers Avenue to Improve Office Security: 19 May 2003; A "Jobfind Company Profile" by Raakhee Mirchandani; “Within the next 18 months, CoreStreet plans to hire between 18 and 22 new employees, nearly doubling its existing work force.”

Airport Security: TSA Officials Use New Technology to Identify Terrorists: April 2003; By J.R. Wilson; “CoreStreet has based its system on a design principle of secure distributed validation, where the security sensitive data and trusted operations are separate from the process of delivering certificate status to relying party applications."

CoreStreet Lands $4M VC Round: 18 April 2003; By Mark Hollmer; “CoreStreet Ltd. plans to announce this Monday that the company closed its first venture capital round, attracting $4 million in investment to help fuel future growth.”

CoreStreet Verifies $4M Series A: 21 April 2003; By Danielle Fugazy

Authorization, Validation Firm CoreStreet Unlocks $4 Million First Round: 21 April 2003; By Giselle Greenwood

CoreStreet Captures First Funding Round: 21 April 2003; By Jeff Miller

Dealflow: 21 April 2003 [pdf]: 21 April 2003; By George White

CoreStreet Opens The Door On Ubiquitous Security: 3 March 2003; “Micali believes that the discoveries these patents cover will pave the way for a less expensive security permissions system that can be distributed over public networks and yet doesn't depend on connecting back to a central authority for approvals.”

Tech Toys Tempt Congress: 13 February 2003; “CoreStreet, which already has some government commitments, pushes a system that uses mathematical proofs to code IDs. The technology can clear the ID holder for certain activities or access--such as boarding a plane or buying a gun--without requiring a real-time background check...”