Boldon James Joins TSCP

Membership Grows As Solutions Providers Commit to Driving Adoption of Secure Information Sharing Standards

HERNDON, Va., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Boldon James, a leading provider of COTS secure information exchange solutions, has joined Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) in the silver membership category. Boldon James is the latest to recognize the role TSCP plays in developing and deploying secure information sharing solutions in highly sensitive environments and commit to contributing to the integration and adoption of TSCP standards.

Boldon James, a wholly owned subsidiary of QinetiQ, brings more than 20 years of experience to TSCP. Serving defence and government agencies worldwide, the company expects to gain greater control over product development costs and accelerate time to market by meeting customer needs as they evolve.

"We've built our business by focusing on each customer's unique and rigorous information security needs," said Martin Sugden, CEO of U.K.-based Boldon James. "TSCP's mission to address the most critical issues in cyber security for its global network of government agencies, aerospace & defence (A&D) companies and software vendors fits perfectly with our own. We are excited by this unique opportunity to collaborate and share information."

As security threats to critical assets around the world increase and become more sophisticated, the need for a common, robust approach to ensuring the protection of information escalates. Meeting this need is the core mission of TSCP -- the aerospace and defence industry's consortium dedicated to identifying, prioritizing, developing and testing requirements for all aspects of information-sharing -- from identity management and Secure E-mail to document sharing with identity federation.

"We're pleased to welcome Boldon James to TSCP," said Keith Ward, TSCP chairman. "We strongly believe that with all parties working together toward a common goal, we can reduce the risk of information security breaches, accelerate secure information sharing across A&D organizations, and reduce overall program costs."

TSCP members include global government and defence agencies, leading A&D companies, and solutions providers. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.

About TSCP

TSCP is the only government-industry partnership specifically focused on designing solutions to address the most critical issues facing the A&D industry: mitigating the compliance, complexity, cost and IT security risks inherent in large-scale, multi-national collaborative programs. TSCP was founded in 2002, and has delivered several specifications and guidance documents on securing A&D supply chain data. The group today focuses on identity federation policies and governance. TSCP is open to government organizations, prime contractors, integrators, suppliers and member trade groups. For more information, please visit www.tscp.org.

About Boldon James

For over 20 years we have helped organisations with the most demanding and complex communication requirements manage sensitive information securely and in compliance with legislation and standards. Our solutions extend the capabilities of Microsoft core infrastructure products to allow secure information exchange and in 2006 we were elevated to Microsoft Global Go-To-Market Partner. Boldon James is a wholly-owned subsidiary of QinetiQ, with offices in the UK, US, Australia and Europe, and channel partners worldwide. www.boldonjames.com

SOURCE TSCP