Tarmin Solutions evaluated by University of London Human Computer Interface Usability Project

OfficeGuard adjudged to deliver superior usability

London U.K. (PRWEB) June 14, 2004 -- Tarmin Solutions, acclaimed developer of innovative legislation compliant security solutions announces that its OfficeGuard product was evaluated as part of a 6 month long "Assessing Usability of Security Technologies" study conducted by the University of London, Queen Mary, Human Computer Interface Usability Project.

Commenting on the study, project co-coordinator Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns noted, "Usability of a software product can be a key determinant of market success. The project endeavored to examine issues affecting usability amongst popular computer security software offerings seeking to predict, amongst other things, how products will likely fare in the marketplace. Regarding the Tarmin Solutions product examined, OfficeGuard, the findings suggest that it has high scoring in usability evaluations compared to other products evaluated which will be a key factor in its acceptance and uptake by end users."

Various leading products including, Tarmin Solutions OfficeGuard Corporate Edition, PGP Corp. PGP Enterprise, Information Security Corporations Secret Agent and Utimaco SafeGuard PrivateCrypto were included in the evaluations. OfficeGuard was selected because it was regarded as the premier example of an emerging new breed of integrated client software, combining support for a wide range of advanced security and identity management based protocols.

We are pleased to continue to receive positive independent feedback regarding our products", said Tarmin CEO, Shahbaz Ali. Indus Intelligence, the basis of OfficeGuard, is a versatile and powerful security platform. We undertook extraordinary measures in architecting Indus Intelligence to ensure that applications developed using it would exhibit superior usability, amongst other important characteristics. At days end, usability is of vital significance to the effectiveness of any solution, the easier it is to deploy, use and manage, the better.

An integrated secure lifecycle document management offering, Tarmin Solutions OfficeGuard product line delivers a range of essential legislation compliant security functionality in an affordable, easy to use offering.

About Tarmin Solutions Ltd.
Tarmin Solutions is a developer of lifecycle information security solutions that make it easier to safeguard, conform and federate enterprise user data and communications. Tarmin products intelligently leverage existing IT infrastructure to deliver best in class legislation compliant data layer protection to information within and beyond the network. Tarmin is the first European company to receive the highly coveted US Department of Defense JITC, PKI and CAC Smart-Card Program Interoperability Certification. Tarmin Solutions is headquartered in London, England, with a regional office in Californias Silicon Valley. For more information, visit http://www.tarmin.com

About the University of London, Queen Mary
Part of the University of London, Queen Mary is an internationally recognized center of excellence in education. For more information, visit http://www.qmw.ac.uk/