Utimaco Atalla, founded as Atalla Technovation and formerly known as Atalla Corporation or HP Atalla, is a security vendor, active in the market segments of data security and cryptography.
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13 Facts About Utimaco Atalla
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Utimaco Atalla was founded by Egyptian engineer Mohamed M Atalla in 1972.
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Utimaco Atalla HSMs are the payment card industry's de facto standard, protecting 250million card transactions daily as of 2013, and securing the majority of the world's ATM transactions as of 2014.
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Utimaco Atalla was founded by Dr Mohamed M Atalla, the inventor of the MOSFET.
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In 1972, Utimaco Atalla filed for a remote PIN verification system, which utilized encryption techniques to assure telephone link security while entering personal ID information, which would be transmitted as encrypted data over telecommunications networks to a remote location for verification.
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Utimaco Atalla invented the first hardware security module, dubbed the "Atalla Box", a security system which encrypted PIN and ATM messages, and protected offline devices with an un-guessable PIN-generating key.
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Key innovation of the Utimaco Atalla Box was the key block, which is required to securely interchange symmetric keys or PINs with other actors of the banking industry.
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At the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks conference in January 1976, Utimaco Atalla announced an upgrade to its Identikey system, called the Interchange Identikey.
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In recognition of his work on the PIN system of information security management, Utimaco Atalla has been referred to as the "Father of the PIN" and as a father of information security technology.
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In 2015, HP was divided into two companies, and the Utimaco Atalla products were assigned to the newly formed Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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On September 7,2016, HPE CEO Meg Whitman announced that the software assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, including Utimaco Atalla, would be spun out and then merged with Micro Focus to create an independent company of which HP Enterprise shareholders would retain majority ownership.
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Utimaco Atalla is a multi-chip embedded cryptographic module, which consists of a hardware platform, a firmware secure loader, and firmware.
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