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Authentium, offering service provider businesses, network architecture and management, software development and business innovation, has announced the company is providing a free 60-day unlimited trial of SafeCentral, an online security that prevents even the most intelligent online criminals from stealing shoppers’ identities and financial information.

 

Interested users can download and install the offering at http://www.safecentral.com. The free 60-day trial offer runs through January 15, 2009.

 

In order to provide online shoppers with a safe experience throughout the holiday season, the company said this special promotion will extend past this shopping season into 2009 and protect consumers who may be using new gift cards, shopping for online post-holiday sales, and returning holiday gifts.

 

“The 2008 holiday season is expected to be one of the most profitable for cyber criminals,” said Ray Dickenson, Chief Technology Officer at Authentium.

Safecentral software helps in safeguarding the login information, passwords, and financial data consumers enter into their computers even if the computer is already infected with data-stealing malware. It uses a new technology called “reverse sandboxing” which ensures the integrity of online holiday shopping, banking, and other transactions even when all other security tools fail.

The company ensures that the new software literally locks down the computer and opens up a secure Web browser that crimeware cannot see. This allows users to do their holiday shopping online in complete security.

“Online shoppers today are faced with largely unseen risks to their credit card and other sensitive information from crimeware that silently records each key pressed during web banking and shopping sessions. Each year record numbers of shoppers use the Internet to do their holiday gift buying, and this creates increasing opportunities for cyber-thieves to harvest credit card numbers and passwords,” said Dickenson.

“At Authentium we see this as an opportunity to throw down the gauntlet and show shoppers just how easy it can be to protect themselves online during this special time of the year. With just one click, SafeCentral shields shoppers from online identity theft. There’s never been an easier, more effective way to keep personal information private online."

A recent Online Banking Report, an exclusive monthly report on Internet banking products and markets, issued its latest report "New Techniques for Secure Online Finance," in which Authentium’s SafeCentral was recognized as the "Best of the Web" recommendation for "the program's ability to simultaneously protect the user and create a brandable security upgrade."