Company profile

Our mission.
KHAMSA SA offers products and
services for securing your e-mail and
phone communications, preventing
information from falling into the
wrong hands.
KHAMSA simplifies and strengthens
your relations with customers and
partners, offering you the most
sophisticated protection technology
through powerful and easy-to-use
tools.
KHAMSA helps your business reduce
the risks of unfair competition,
renegade employees and industrial
espionage: we protect your
communications, which enhances the
productivity of your business.
We make your communications
secure, which enhances the
productivity of your business.
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Many needs,
one tool.
Our products are designed to prevent unauthorized Your communications are too important to be unprotected.
reading, eavesdropping and unwanted third party When information passes through the Internet, it’s entrusted to third parties who can easily read,
alteration of your communications. alter and / or pass it on. This is not or should never be left as an acceptable risk.
By integrating our simple and effective tools in your
communication activities, you achieve ideal and
unsurpassed protection for all your confidential
information.
PrivateMAIL
This solution enables secure exchange of e-mail
messages and attachments without the need of the
recipient to be in possession of the same tool.
As it is available in several versions, we can always
find one that fits with your individual needs.
Whether you are a single user, in a work group or
looking for a complete business solutions.
PrivateGSM
This business solution alters a standard cell phone
into a state of the art secure communication tool.
There are no hardware changes to each phone and
it allows the user to select and treat every call as
secure or otherwise at their sole discretion.
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Innovation and development.
Innovation according to KHAMSA means, creating
products that are easy to use, expanding the entire
range of supported devices and constantly creating
new solutions to meet the needs of an increasingly
demanding customer base.
Different users require different solutions.
Adjustments and specialization of our tools is
therefore an ongoing process in order to keep up
maximum usability.
Within the dynamic and vibrant environment of our
laboratories, located at the University of
Switzerland and the Politecnico di Milano, our
computer and system engineers face new
challenges every day, to keep up and maintain the
high standards of KHAMSA products.
The expertise of our researchers and specialists are daily focused
on finding creative solutions for our customers.
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Defending privacy.
A right requiring the right tools.
Democratic institutions and lawmakers are these Confidentiality is a universal right. However, malicious or disloyal technicians can easily access confidential
days paying closer attention to the need data and private communications. Law regulations need the assistance of new technology tools to
of protecting privacy. prevent such abuse.
Sadly, constitutional or legislative protection
cannot prevent anyone from attempting
unauthorized access to conversations or
exchanges of messages and documents.
Technology to the rescue
Therefore, utilizing active protection tools is a
practice recommended by all experts and
supported by those en-powered to be guarantor
of privacy.
The protection tools we offer let you implement
the protection that is envisioned by the law
itself.
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No compromises.
Our vision of your security.
KHAMSA & Philip Zimmermann Protection and ease of use The assurance of security. A subject few confront and even fewer guarantee.
Like your confidential data, your security The challenges KHAMSA faced together We entrusted the development of our products to the top experts, to be able
cannot be entrusted to just anyone. with Zimmermann was to create to give you this complete assurance.
That is why we chose to entrust the top products that are both easy to use and
world expert in cryptography secure enough for military practice.
acknowledged by the scientific community: These challenges could only be taken Philip R. Zimmermann
Philip R.Zimmermann. by someone who has fought since
the beginning to make this kind of
Since 1980, Zimmermann has worked on protection technology available to
securing e-mail communications and more everyone.
recently also on telephony security.
He invented and designed two separate An absolute guarantee
communication protocols: PGP to secure We believe in the values of transparency
electronic mail and ZRTP for the and security. Therefore our procedures
confidentiality of phone calls. and source codes are routinely assessed
and monitored by independent outside
Although different technologies, they experts, both Swiss and International.
share the same security concept; This guarantees the highest safety of
to guarantee a complete imperviousness our products.
from external attacks.
No compromises … Zero tolerance.
Our vision of your security.
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Our customers.
Many. In more than 29 countries. All confidential.
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The company.
KHAMSA SA is the ideal partner for Trust…earned through years of KHAMSA SA
securing confidential communications. activity in the legal, fiduciary and via Giacometti, 1
security sectors. 6900 - Lugano
Our values Switzerland
Our values are transparency, Trust…reaffirmed by the investors
confidentiality and security. who in 2007 turned the academic Board of Directors
start-up into a business. Stefano Camponovo - Chairman
These values are represented Jean Philippe Rochat - Member
by the scientific Board and the executive Trust…KHAMSA, a project born in Federico Moro - Member
Board of KHAMSA, composed by 2005 at the Università della Svizzera
professionals who made “trust” an italiana and at the Politecnico di Board of Technical Advisors
essential part of their profession. Milano University, today a business Philip R.Zimmermann - San Francisco
striving to be your trusted partner. Carlo Ghezzi - Milano
KHAMSA ITALIA SRL
via Aretusa, 34
20147 - Milano
Italy
Board of Directors
Fabio Pietrosanti - Chairman
Federico Moro - Member
Gian Carlo Vaccari - Member
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KHAMSA SA Via Giacometti 1 - 6900 - Lugano
tel. + 41 (0)91 2206450 fax. + 41 (0)91 2206421 www.khamsa.ch
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