A made-in-S'pore app that encrypts on the fly
[SINGAPORE] What started out as a search for an easy-to-use and affordable encryption tool eventually led two good friends to start a security business in Singapore.
Banker and financier Michael Tse needed a secure way to distribute medical reports to more than 100 doctors using the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Centre, a medical facility he had set up in Hong Kong. Such reports were being distributed by courier to the doctors who were not stationed in the facility, and some got lost on the way.
Finding point-to-point encryption solutions too expensive then, he turned to his Singaporean friend Kwok-Yan Lam, who has been teaching security in universities since 1990, for help. His request was that the solution had to be robust for the enterprise, yet simple enough for the consumer to use.
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