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With 15 years of experience in engineering, product development and launch, and technical marketing for firms such as Fujifilm, RSA Data Security and Hifn, Jim Faith currently leads the Marketing and Business Development efforts for the Meson Group. For the past few years, Jim has focused his professional career interests on digital currency and cryptographic implementations of online payment systems. He's one of the three founders of Meson Group.

Security technology includes four primary components required by any online security system: remote authentication and authorization, confidentiality, data integrity and non-repudiation. "As the global market has increasingly developed into a commercial infrastructure overlaying the Internet, online security system technology has been going through an evolution. Security is now critical to any information infrastructure. It's a fundamental part of the public consciousness, " Jim declares. Any business application that allows a customer to purchase products or services online with the option of different forms of payments must guarantee security features and requirements. "Specializing in the wireless marketplace, Meson Group assists any commercial platform in selecting a technology or toolkit to properly develop a hacker-resistant application and implement its security system," Jim continues. "The company business is growing and looks at Japan and Scandinavia with its high percentage of wireless users as the most profitable global markets," he continues.

The Meson staff has a long history of working with development tools and languages, from Verilog to Assembly, 'C', C++, and Java. Its team is experienced in the development of software, hardware, firmware, client, server, n-tier, and embedded applications. The staff has extensive experience with Windows and Unix operating systems and development tools, as well as experience designing and using cryptographic tokens (such as smart cards, digital wallets, and iButtons), hardware accelerators, and cryptographic coprocessors.

By performing accurate analysis of a customer network and assisting in configuring secure web servers, virtual private networks and firewalls, the Meson team can develop a threat and vulnerability model to extrapolate and implement security policies and assist in the selection, installation, and integration of security products.

Based on trust, Global eCommerce uses cryptography through firewalls and virtual private network channels to develop online protection systems (digital financial systems, digital trademarks, digital certificates) requiring security and confidentiality.

"In the year 2000 a Federal law passed which declared the digital signature as a legally binding technology," Jim Faith remarks. Digital identification systems prevent digital identity theft and fraud. "Online copyright infringement has created a need to develop systems of digital artwork protection such as watermarks," Jim continues. International laws allow technology to evolve towards securing paperless ways of conducting business transactions in the global marketplace and publishing online under secure copyright protection.

Online data security systems are in great demand in the healthcare industry, where secure data storage of personal/private information is required. Secure private protocol channels ("sessions") are now embedded in most popular Web browsers, which allows cryptography to provide cheaper ways to exchange confidential information and currency in the global network and makes this technology increasingly more affordable to the small business community and the private user.

Meson Group (US)
Jim Faith
555 Bryant St. #465
Palo Alto, CA 94301
+1.650.618.1725 (voice and fax)
jfaith@mesongroup.comMeson Group (JAPAN)
Matthew S. Hamrick
871-1, Ste. #301, Yokoda
Iizuka City, Fukuoka, 820-0044
+81.70.5692.4317
mhamrick@mesongroup.com

MBITA has formed an economic development program between the Monterey Bay region and the Osaka Prefecture in Japan.

Osaka plays a major role as the center of the Japanese economy. A rich store of knowledge rooted in history and tradition combined with a wealth of unsurpassed technology creates a powerful base for Osaka's vibrant and active economy. Osaka's GDP amounted to $318 billion putting it on par with that of a developed country. "Osaka is the heart of entrepreneurial Japan. Over two-thirds of its companies are small and medium-sized firms which match up well with the businesses in the Monterey Bay region", states Tony Livoti, Executive director of MBITA. "Our high-tech companies with their proprietary Internet technology is of special interest to Osaka's business community", continues Mr. Livoti.



As part of this region-to-region economic development Program, MBITA and the Osaka Chamber of Commerce have announced the G-BOC 2001 Conference in Osaka, Japan.

G-BOC 2001 will be held in Osaka on October 22-23-24, 2001. G-BOC is an annual international business event aimed at developing new business opportunities for foreign companies. This purely business-oriented event has annually contributed to creating new business opportunities on a global scale, through its unique pre-arranged 'Individual Business Talks', and up-to-date informative seminars and lectures.

To provide opportunities for efficient and fruitful business talks, the G-BOC Secretariat makes prior arrangements for talks between you and your potential business partners in Japan after considering your individual requests and needs. The Individual Business Talks cover a wide range of subjects including export/import, business/technical tie-ups, joint ventures, and investments in many fields of industries.

The "Individual Business Talks" at G-BOC are best suited for those interested in establishing business with Japanese companies or expanding their network in Japan. The G-BOC Secretariat will make maximum efforts to locate your potential Japanese partners based on your business needs and inform you of them prior to G-BOC 2001. Pre-arranged "Individual Business Talks" are unique to G-BOC, and are not found at any other international trade fair, exhibition or conference. This program has achieved satisfactory results at all prior G-BOC events.

G-BOC 2000 attracted 544 overseas participants from 32 overseas economies, as well as numerous representatives of about 2,500 Japanese companies. The G-BOC 2001 conference covers a wide range of subjects including export/import business, technical tie-ups, joint ventures, and investments in many fields of industries and aims at finding your best potential business partners in Japan.

"The G-BOC conference is just the beginning. We plan trade missions to and from Japan and have some more exciting trade promotion services coming soon with the Osaka Prefecture, says Mr. Livoti.

For details and online application visit the G-BOC 2001 web site
or call the MBITA office at 831-469-0148.

Email: gboc@osaka.cci.or.jp
Website: http://www.g-boc.com

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