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Route1 Debuts MobiKEY and the SAFE Response Business Continuity Solution at Interop New York
Route1 Debuts MobiKEY and the SAFE Response Business Continuity Solution at Interop New York.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK and TORONTO, Dec. 12 /CNW/ - Interop New York, Booths No. 449,\nNo. 441-05 - Route1(TM) (TSX-V:ROI), an innovator in secure, mobile \nthin-clients, today debuted MobiKEY and the SAFE Response Business Continuity\nSolution at Interop New York. Route1's SAFE Response is designed to alleviate\nthe impact of quarantines and concerns over safe travel, among other business\ndisruptions, by allowing employees to easily and safely 'telecommute' with\ntheir critical office systems. SAFE (Simplified Access For Emergency) Response\nis built on the Company's latest innovation, the MobiKEY, a USB thin-client\nthat eliminates the use of cumbersome VPNs and expensive security tokens.\n\"Our solution delivers the same accessibility to applications and\nservices to the home or remote office as those available in the corporate\noffice,\" said Andrew White, Route1 CEO. \"Our complete integration of security\nmanagement means that IT can be confident that a SAFE Response roll out is\nsafeguarded and not reliant on end-users' efforts or computers for security.\"\nWith SAFE Response, users remotely access and control their desktop\napplications which look, act and behave exactly as they do when they are at\ntheir desk in the office. There are no complicated VPN set ups, tokens, or\nunfamiliar 'webified' applications to struggle with. Users simply plug MobiKEY\ninto the USB port of their home computers and 30 seconds later they are\nrunning their office desktop.\n\"Successful business continuity planning must focus on people not just\nalternate arrangements for facilities and technology,\" said Michelle Warren,\nmarket analyst with Evans Research, Toronto. \"Route1's solution addresses the\ncritical requirement to put people instantly in touch with the information and\nsystems to make them productive no matter the disruption.\"\nMobiKEY's unique security feature doesn't require users to carry office\napplications or data with them. The device auto-runs from on-board read-only\nmemory and its SIM Smart Card authenticates users with Route1's MobiNET\nservice which allows office systems to connect to the 'guest' computer. The\nsolution is virus, malware and attack resistant and the MobiKEY is not a node\non the corporate network. MobiKEY's instant off design never leaves traces of\nuser's work\non the guest system and should the device...