Tempest Technologies Inc today forms a new Information Security Technologies division to provide a range of information security products and services for government agencies and major corporations: it is organised to support a new trusted line of computer network systems featuring multi-level computer and communications security, built around the company’s commercial Integrator Series of personal computers and microcomputer-based products; Tempest claims the system can meet the Department of Defense B2 level security rating; the new division simultaneously launches a Communications Network Server with physical and software security, and a proprietary removable and transportable hard disk line, the Transport Series; the new Information Security Technologies has lined up a number of complementary friends – Trusted Information Systems Inc with its Trusted Xenix operating system, the only operating system; Verdix Corp with its B2-certified VSLAN local area network; and AST Research Inc, which is providing Tempest with personal computers.
