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As more and more business goes online, information and computer security become more important, and an increasing number of companies must go through a grueling federal certification process for their cryptography-related products.
Two-year-old Corsec Security was funded to ease their pain. Corsec, housed in the George Mason University Entrepreneurship Center in Fairfax, specializes in security consulting in the areas of public infrastructure, digital signatures and cryptographic security engineering.
The company helps clients weed their way through the FIPS-140 certification process, which is required for any com)any selling cryptographic hardware and software to the federal government. FIPS, or Federal Information Processing standards, is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) program, and "140" refers specifically to the engineering requirements for computer security products.
"FIPS-140 is a fairly complex process. It's not straightforward," said Vice President Matthew Appler, who founded the company with President John Morris. "Some vendors take a...