TriStrata Security Inc, the two year old Redwood Shores, California-based cryptography company, is ready to begin commercial shipping of its Random KeyStream secure information management system in January 1999. TriStrata, the privately funded progeny of Dr John Atalla – also the father of the Atalla box which has been used as a means of securing ATM transactions for almost 26 years – has just completed a three month global simulation of its data security system with half a million ‘virtual users’. President and CEO, Paul Wahl, who defected from SAP America in September to join Tristrata and who has, along with the rest of the board, put his own money into the new company, claimed the simulation test run was completed without fault, is immediately expandable to one million users and is easy to scale even further. TriStrata says it currently has 20 Fortune 1000 companies trying out its security system. Wahl says he plans to top up the 10 strong sales team to 50 by the end of the first quarter 1999, taking the total employee count to 100, and there are plans to open a European office at an as yet undecided location in April.
