LexiGuard software makes it easy to keep your private documents and files secret from hackers, data thieves and prying eyes. LexiGuard enables the storage of important documents or files on your Laptop or PC with military-level encryption, with little more complexity than saving a text document in Microsoft Word or Word Perfect.

THE NEED FOR INFORMATION SECURITY for DESKTOP / LAPTOP USERS

As the trend for network-processed information grows, the need to protect sensitive information becomes more urgent. In particular, the vulnerability of standalone and laptop / notebook computers, as the fastest growing segment of the corporate computing market, poses an immediate challenge to corporate security managers.

LexiGuard®

With this challenge in mind, Lexias has developed a family of mutually complementary security products. LexiGuard is the robust core product and LexiGuard Enterprise is the full scale version for enterprise applications.
LexiGuard offers multi-user file encryption for desktop and laptop users.

Features and Benefits

The following features offer high value to corporate customers to meet their immediate security needs:

1. Security at Highest Level
LexiGuard incorporates:

· Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithms - AES, Triple-DES, RC4,
and Blowfish
· Public Key Algorithms - RSA 1024-bit
· Digital Signature Algorithms - SHA-1 with RSA

2. Open Standard Support
LexiGuard is compliant with the evolving PKIX and LDAP standards and supports:

· X.509v3 for Digital Certificates
· PKCS#11 for Smart Cards
· S/MIME for E-mail

3. PKI Interoperability
Built upon the JAVA 2 security architecture, LexiGuard allows different algorithms and security features from other providers to be plugged in with ease. While it has the capability to generate its own certificate and signing keys, it can also incorporate digital certificates and keys from the leading PKI vendors such as RSA, VeriSign and Entrust/

4. Productivity
LexiGuard runs on different operating systems, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, Unix and Linux and thus provides the corporations with cross-platform software tool for enhanced productivity and manageability.

5. Scalability
LexiGuard is upgradeable to the client-server version, LexiGuard enterprise designed for the security of enterprise environments. With the family of LexiGuard products, corporate managers can easily transition from older security systems to next-generation security solutions such as digital certificates and smart cards.

6. Key Recovery and Master Key Solutions
LexiGuard offers practical solutions for rapid key recovery for forgotten passwords and master key for file decryption in an emergency. Several choices of solutions are available to the corporate managers to fit their specific environments.

7. Protection of Keys
LexiGuard offers the optional feature to utilize cryptographic smart cards and Java smart cards for the storage of private keys. This is an enhanced security solution since storing the keys in a portable, tamper-resistant smart card is more secure than keeping them on the hard drive that can be compromised readily.

APPLICATIONS

LexiGuard protects transparently the user against

• Unauthorized access to confidential information
• Forgery or identity spoofing
• Disclosure of sensitive records
• Financial and business fraud
• Piracy of software and confidential records by competitors to advance their own interests or by intruders for counterfeit operations
• Theft of information from within and without the organization