Image Fortress Selected by Numismatic Guarantee Corporation to Provide Trustworthy Digital Archiving Service
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Press Release Source: Image Fortress Corporation
Image Fortress Selected by Numismatic Guarantee
Corporation to Provide Trustworthy Digital
Archiving Service
Monday December 8, 8:00 am ET
WESTFORD, Mass., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Numismatic Guaranty
Corporation, the world's leading independent coin
certification and grading service, has selected Image
Fortress Corporation's DigitalFortress digital archiving
service as the platform for NGC's online coin catalog, the
first online photographic catalog of certified and graded
collectible coins. DigitalFortress service was selected by
NGC (http://www.ngccoin.com) because of DigitalFortress'
unique ability to provide trustworthy archiving of all
digital files, which insures files archived within
DigitalFortress are unalterable and tamper-proof.
One of the significant innovations introduced by NGC in
their online catalog is the application of the
DigitalFortress feature that digitally seals and time
stamps every archived file, in this case the photographs
of all coins being graded by NGC. The DigitalFortress
sealing process provides online, one-click
authentication of the photographs in NGC's catalog by
third parties who wish to verify the integrity of any
viewed or downloaded photograph. By using
DigitalFortress, any attempt to alter a copy of a coin
photograph downloaded from NGC's catalog will be
immediately detectable. Over one million tamper-proof
coin photographs have already been archived by Image
Fortress for the NGC catalog.
"Image Fortress's DigitalFortress service solves a major
problem that has emerged in recent years in the
collectibles industry -- protecting parties that wish
to conduct buy/sell transactions over the Internet and
via online auction sites from the fraud that can occur
when individuals tamper with the digital images of items
being displayed over the Internet to make them appear
to be what they are not," according to Steve Eichenbaum,
CEO, Numismatic Guarantee Corporation. "Our new online
catalog, powered by Image Fortress's unique digital
archiving service that insures that all coin photographs
are tamper-proof, will enable collectors and dealers to
view and download photographs of coins we've certified
with complete confidence that an NGC-provided coin
photograph is authentic just as the coin we
certified," according to Eichenbaum.
"We are delighted to be partnering with NGC to provide
the leader in coin certification with a trustworthy
online repository for their photographs of
authenticated and graded coins built upon our
DigitalFortress digital archiving service," said Bob
Pokress, president and CEO of Image Fortress. "NGC
has created the world's first online catalog of
collectible coins where owners, coin dealers, buyers
and investors will be able to look up and verify,
with 100 percent confidence, the authentication,
grading and provenance of a collectible coin at the
click of a mouse."
About Image Fortress Corporation
Headquartered in Westford, MA, Image Fortress
Corporation (www.imagefortress.com) is a leading
provider to government and private organizations of
fully automated, online digital archiving service
that ensures the secure, long-term preservation and
integrity of electronic documents and files. The
company's family of DigitalFortress(TM) online
digital archiving services is compliant with ISO's
Digital Archiving standards and with the National
Archives and Records Administration requirements
and regulations for Federal government electronic
records archiving.
Trademarks
Image Fortress and DigitalFortress are trademarks
of Image Fortress Corporation.
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