MediaSec and Ascom Team to Help Secure and Authenticate Digital Video Surveillance

MediaSec, the Multimedia Security Company, today announced the incorporation of their MediaSign-Digital software product into Ascom's toll collection solution. MediaSign-Digital offers a highly secure and low-cost solution to protect digital images and video against unauthorized alteration. It is a permanent and inseparable image and video authentication that is perceptually invisible. It embeds a secure hash value of the data's semantics into the data as a digital watermark. Authentication features include content, time, source and sequence verification.

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MediaSec and Ascom Team to Help Secure and Authenticate Digital Video Surveillance

February 8, 2002

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - MediaSec, the Multimedia Security Company, today announced the incorporation of their MediaSign-Digital software product into Ascom's toll collection solution.

MediaSign-Digital offers a highly secure and low-cost solution to protect digital images and video against unauthorized alteration. It is a permanent and inseparable image and video authentication that is perceptually invisible. It embeds a secure hash value of the data's semantics into the data as a digital watermark. Authentication features include content, time, source and sequence verification.

"As digital replaces analog in the video surveillance world, authentication has become a huge issue due to the relative ease in which digital images and video can be altered and manipulated. Surveillance video is worthless if it can't stand up in court and its validity must be beyond reproach. Without question, MediaSign-Digital makes security and authentication of video data a snap " said Bill Mallinson, Director for Sales and Business Development at MediaSec Technologies in Providence, Rhode Island. "The integration of MediaSign-Digital into the toll collection monitoring system from Ascom is a great example of how to secure the video for acceptance in the courts."

About MediaSec Technologies

MediaSec Technologies provides innovative technologies and products for multimedia and document security. The solutions are based on patented digital watermarking technologies. MediaSec's watermarking applications protect and secure both, digital content and printed documents against piracy, forgery, alteration, counterfeiting and other unauthorized uses. MediaSec Technologies is headquartered in Essen, Germany and has a subsidiary in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
MediaSec will show its MediaSign-Digital technology at the International Security Conference West (ISC West), one of the largest security show in the world, in Las Vegas, March 5-7, 2002. The applications of MediaSign-Digital include digital video surveillance, law enforcement, and insurance and finance.

About Ascom

Ascom is an internationally active telecommunications and service automation group with 12,000 employees worldwide. Ascom's head office is located in Berne, Switzerland. Here in the United States and North America, Ascom has a major presence with the following Ascom Companies: Ascom Energy Systems, Ascom Hasler Mailing Systems, Ascom Transport Systems, Ascom Wireless and Better Packages.

CONTACT
USA
Bill Mallinson
MediaSec Technologies LLC
10 Weybosset Street, Suite 501
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Phone: 401-272-3388
Fax: 401-272-4884
Email: bmallinson@mediasec.com
WWW: http://www.mediasec.com
Germany
Dr. Eckhard Koch
MediaSec Technologies GmbH
Berliner Platz 6-8
D-45127 Essen
Phone: +49-201-43752-70
Fax: +49-201-43752-77
Email: ekoch@mediasec.de
WWW: http://www.mediasec.de

MediaSign-Digital is a trademark of MediaSec Technologies.