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The Signed and Encrypted Email Over the Internet (SEEOTI) initiative is an approach to providing
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with the ability to communicate securely with one another, government defence ministries and major aerospace and defence contractors, allowing them to play a full part in the defence supply chain.


Overview

SEEOTI implements the secure email specifications defined by the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program ( TSCP). These support interoperable signing and encryption of email messages in a federated environment. In addition, the security labelling of email messages is supported with a network border
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being able to check labels even though messages are encrypted. This meets the goal of protecting
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in the global business environment, which is of particular importance to the UK Cyber Security Strategy as intellectual property is seen as key to the growth of the economy. Deep-Secure organised a trial of SEEOTI for UK MOD and the UK Council for Electronic Business. This integrated Commercial Off The Shelf (
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) products from TITUS,
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and Deep-Secure to provide the system's email security functionality. Deep-Secure were selected as the overall winner of the UKCeB Excellence Awards 2011 for their work on SEEOTI in February 2012. Deep-Secure and its partners Adept4, Intercede and Trustis are providing a SEEOTI solution as a service.
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provide compatible products.


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