WISeKey to Extend its Footprint to Gibraltar to Provide Trust Services, in Collaboration with Continent 8 Technologies
The challenge is a part of the La Linea Gibraltar 4th Industrial Revolution Center of Excellence“LLG4IR.COM” and can serve to ship totally different cyber-security companies from Gibraltar to the area.
Gibraltar (UK), Geneva (Switzerland) – October 24, 2022 – WISeKey International Holding (“WISeKey”, SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a number one cybersecurity IoT and AI firm, immediately introduced the signing of an settlement with Continent 8 Technologies (Continent 8), a worldwide managed internet hosting, connectivity and safety firm, to deploy a neighborhood node of the WISeKey platform, able to delivering Trusted Managed Services for digital identification, IoT and NFT-related tasks.
In September 2021, WISeKey introduced the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Mr. Fabian Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar and the Mayor of La Línea de la Concepción, Mr. Juan Franco, for the event of a joint 4th Industrial Revolution Center of Excellence (LLG 4IR Center of Excellence) spearheading innovation within the area.
This new announcement confirms the dedication of WISeKey with the challenge and a strong advance in direction of the achievement of the objectives to set up a node of the WISeKey platform within the Campo de Gibraltar area. The 4th Industrial Revolution modifications the dynamics of the expertise and worth creation chain, cross-border collaboration and the way in which firms combine their analysis and expertise to create worth for his or her clients. New business and cooperation fashions emerge by integrating business companions and shoppers. The business mannequin of the joint LLG 4IR Center of Excellence is to help revolutionary start-ups in areas akin to AI, Blockchain, Cloud, IoT, Satellite, IoT, Drones, Cybersecurity and Quantum to carry out collective R&D actions, promote their applied sciences internationally, facilitate the speedy adaptation and on-boarding of 4IR-based options, foster stronger collaboration between the general public, non-public and educational sectors and cooperate to be sure that the newest technological requirements are made accessible in a secure and trusted method. The LLG 4IR Center of Excellence node in Gibraltar is securely with the WISeKey Geneva Center of Excellence and can coordinate with different 4IR facilities world wide, permitting all companions to totally profit from shared experiences and sources. Each Center of Excellence has developed explicit experience that may be shared amongst all facilities.
With this localized node, the platform delivered by WISeKey will facilitate entry to Digital Identity leveraging the usage of PKI and the OISTE Root of Trust. Based in Switzerland, WISeKey can make sure the independency of its belief companies, permitting its clients to concern digital identities which might be acknowledged worldwide. Companies and residents may even advantage of the distinctive advantages of the jurisdiction of Gibraltar, significantly open to exploit new applied sciences akin to blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFT.
The Gibraltar Node might be linked with the WISeSat Antena set up, carried out on the roof of the La Línea de la Concepción City Hall constructing, that lays the foundations for the brand new LLG 4IR Center of Excellence, to turn into the connection level for the deployment, management, and communication of IoT satellites, such because the constellation WISeSat developed by WISeKey. WISeSat is a devoted and safe IoT connectivity answer wherever on Earth that makes use of picosatellites and low-power sensors, amongst different satellite tv for pc deployments from FOSSA Systems.
Continent 8 is a worldwide supplier of managed internet hosting, connectivity, cloud and cybersecurity companies. Its cybersecurity providing embrace DDoS, WAAP, EDR & MDR and SIEM & SOC options. The firm has a non-public linked community spanning nearly 90 areas throughout 4 continents. Connecting Gibraltar to the remainder of the world, Continent 8 has established itself because the main infrastructure supplier in Gibraltar, with essentially the most safe and well-equipped internet hosting web site within the jurisdiction, situated deep contained in the Rock.
The firm might be a key accomplice in WISeKey’s initiative, lowering notably the time wanted to this new node of the WISeKey platform, which, by its personal nature, requires state-of-the-art technical infrastructures, protected beneath the best requirements of bodily and logical safety countermeasures.
“This new move demonstrates our commitment with the project and the signatories of the memoranda to build this center of excellence. We are happy to have Continent 8 as key partner in this initiative,” mentioned Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey.
“We have been providing world-leading managed hosting, connectivity and cybersecurity services to businesses operating in and from Gibraltar since 2011. We are delighted to be working with WISeKey as they develop their Trusted Managed Services offering in new regions, as well as their exciting plans surrounding the development of a 4th Industrial Revolution Center of Excellence. As a company that is passionate about a local focus while providing global reach, I am confident that we are a great fit for WISeKey’s ambitious future,” mentioned David Black, Managing Director EMEA of Continent 8 Technologies.
The deployment challenge has already began, with the expectation to be in full manufacturing in Q1 2023.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a number one world cybersecurity firm at present deploying massive scale digital identification ecosystems for folks and objects utilizing Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human because the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors safe the pervasive computing shaping immediately’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an set up base of over 1.5 billion microchips in nearly all IoT sectors (linked automobiles, sensible cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, sensible lighting, servers, computer systems, cell phones, crypto tokens and so forth.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be on the fringe of IoT as our semiconductors produce an enormous quantity of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can assist industrial purposes to predict the failure of their tools earlier than it occurs.
Our expertise is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss primarily based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) supplies safe authentication and identification, in each bodily and digital environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a standard belief anchor to make sure the integrity of on-line transactions amongst objects and between objects and other people. For extra info, go to www.wisekey.com.
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