Today, many organizations depend on unsecured conferencing systems that do not address major system vulnerabilities. Realizing this, Cellcrypt (News - Alert), a provider of encrypted cell phone voice calling, recently launched a new hosted service offering for securing conference calls.

The new service will leverage Cellcrypt Conferencing, the company’s award-winning enterprise communications solution.

With the help of the new hosted offering, organizations will be able to subscribe to Cellcrypt Conferencing on a monthly basis. Officials said that this will further enable improved security for conference call organizers and participants.

“We’ve been very pleased with the accolades received for our Cellcrypt Conferencing secure communications product,” said David Rivington, CEO of Cellcrypt, in a statement. “With this service launch, we provide the market with an even greater flexibility of deployment. Organizations can chose to bring the Cellcrypt Conferencing solution entirely in-house, or subscribe monthly to the service hosted by Cellcrypt.”

By ensuring that only authorized callers are able to enter a conference, Cellcrypt Conferencing increases security.  

Designated conference organizers can log into a Web interface and can invite participants from a list of personalized contacts. While joining the call, users are triple-authenticated through a participant PIN, a conference code, and inbound phone number identification.

Organizers are able to maintain real-time control over all active calls and participants, like removing or putting the callers on mute. With the help of the Web interface, they are also able to create or delete users, change passwords, and send out conference invitations.

Officials confirmed that Cellcrypt Conferencing can support standard PSTN unencrypted callers and Cellcrypt-encrypted participants on a single call, for maximum flexibility.

Earlier in May, TMC (News - Alert) reported that CESG and Cellcrypt have joined forces in order to develop a MIKEY-SAKKE technology solution for securing mobile communications.