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PowerArchiver for Government – FIPS 140-2 data storage, exchange and transport with open data solutions (ZIP AES 256 and Secure FTP).

drazen — Fri, 10 May 2013 14:58:05 +0000

Dear users,

For all of you that use PowerArchiver in Government environment, we have fully certified end-to-end solution for data storage and transport. For data storage and exchange, we use ZIP AES (public and open data standard) and for transport we use secure ftp client (both SFTP and FTP over SSL, both public transport standards). Both solutions are FIPS 140-2 certified and satisfy all legal requirements for open data storage and transport as well as data protection standards.

More about FIPS 140-2 standard

Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) is entitled “Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules.” It’s a standard that describes government requirements that hardware and software products should meet for Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) use. The standard was published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been adopted by the Canadian government’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), and is being adopted by the financial community through the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
FIPS 140-2 requires federal government agencies that use cryptographic-based security systems to protect sensitive information to comply with the standards. Any organisation that does any kind of business with any government agency is also required to comply with the standards.

More about White House Exective order on open data storage

To promote continued job growth, Government efficiency, and the social good that can be gained from opening Government data to the public, the default state of new and modernized Government information resources shall be open and machine readable. Government information shall be managed as an asset throughout its life cycle to promote interoperability and openness, and, wherever possible and legally permissible, to ensure that data are released to the public in ways that make the data easy to find, accessible, and usable. In making this the new default state, executive departments and agencies (agencies) shall ensure that they safeguard individual privacy, confidentiality, and national security.

Summary

You can now use PowerArchiver Professional to securely exchange encrypted sensitive information with any US or Canadian government agency in compliance with FIPS 140-2 standards as well as new Executive order from White House on mandatory use of Open data formats.

PowerArchiver is Windows 8 Certified

drazen — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:57:27 +0000

Dear users,

Those of you that follow our website and our news section know that PowerArchiver works great on Windows 8 and has been for quite a while now, and now we also have gotten it officially certified by Microsoft and listed in the Windows App store for Windows 8 (desktop).

Windows 8 is an upgrade to Windows 7 and PowerArchiver will work great on all of those systems, including Windows XP and all of the server editions as well. We don’t plan to drop support for Windows XP or any other Windows operating systems anytime soon, despite end of life notice from Microsoft. So you can rest assured that ConeXware, Inc. will fully support Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and all of the future versions of Windows desktop in all of our PowerArchiver products.

Thank you for your continuous support in the past 15 years!

PowerArchiver Team Members

PowerArchiver 2012 13.03 released!

drazen — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:04:12 +0000

Dear users,

We have new update to PowerArchiver 2012, version 13.03.02. This update mainly deals with mandatory changes due to Windows 8 certification as well as some minor fixes and some new features.

Here is the list of changes:

Windows 8 support – Various smaller changes for official Windows 8 Certification.
Backup: date options – Enabled date options for file naming as default so users wont by accident overwrite their old backups.
Backup: tar.gz support – Improved TAR.GZ support in backup.
Virtual Drive: IMG support – Added support for IMG files in Virtual Drive.
Drag & Drop: Profiles – Added support for Compression Profiles in Drag and Drop window.
Preview Window Improvements – Disabled preview window for file selection when renaming files.
ZIP format – Added support for extracting folders with invalid name in Windows File System (/.example/).
Archive Converter with Encrypt Filenames – Added support for Encrypting Filenames in Archive converter (added in 13.03.02).

You can download PowerArchiver 2012 13.03.02 from our download page. If you already have PowerArchiver, you can Patchbeam this update, only around 464kb small!

PowerArchiver Outlook Plugin and Zip To Email updated to support Office/Outlook 2013

drazen — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:54:03 +0000

Dear users,

We have updated PowerArchiver Outlook Plugin (English and German) as well as Zip To Email in order to include support for latest Microsoft Office 2013 (Microsoft Outlook 2013).

Both of them will now work great with Microsoft Office 2013, 32bit and 64bit, as well as older versions of office, all the way down to Microsoft Office 2000 (Microsoft Outlook 2000).

We hope all of your are having great holidays and this is small gift from us to make your holidays even a little bit nicer. Next up is update to PowerArchiver 2012, so please stay tuned and keep checking our blogs, facebook and/or twitter for more updates.

You can download latest releases here.

Happy Holidays from ConeXware, Inc and PowerArchiver Team!

drazen — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:13:10 +0000

Dear users,

We want to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thank you for your continuous support and making us grow even in these times. We had successful 2012 in terms of sales and customer acquisitions and we hope to do even better in the 2013. As you know, we focus more on engineering than marketing and we hope this approach will continue to pay off in 2013, with release of our new products.

We have big plans for 2013, and we will start with new releases within next 2 weeks. So enjoy your holidays and check our website for updates to PowerArchiver 2012, PowerArchiver for Outlook and Zip To Email.

In the next few months we want to expand on our offerings with some brand new products and updates to existing ones to improve functionality and feature set. They are exciting times ahead of us and thank you for all for making it possible.

PowerArchiver Team

PowerArchiver 2012 13.02.02 Released!

drazen — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:26:20 +0000

Dear users,

With coming Windows 8 official release, here is the new release of PowerArchiver 2012. Last week it came to our attention that Windows 8 does not play well with Kol, language we used to create PA Starter – our Queue worker app, so not to leave you stranded, we went on and created new PA Starter from grounds up in Delphi XE2 instead of Kol.

We used Kol for its memory advantages when we created PA Starter long time ago, so it was time to bring it back to modern world. New PA Starter looks good and this will lead to some improvements later on, such as ability to schedule Patchbeam updates in the background (if selected by you). So please check out this release and confirm that it all works beautifully on your side!

As changes are strictly for Windows 8 users, this version will not go up via Patchbeam until next week’s release!

Changes from 13.01.04 to 13.02.02:

Completely new PA Starter – PA Starter built from grounds up for better Windows 8 performance.

Windows 8 file associations – Windows 8 file associations used for Default Programs option in Windows 8.

You can download PowerArchiver 2012 13.02.02 from our download page.

PowerArchiver 2012 13.01.04 Released!

drazen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:48:49 +0000

Dear users,

After a month of your feedback from official release of PowerArchiver 2012 13.00, here is new update of your favourite compression utility – PowerArchiver. In this version we have concentrated on Windows 8 support as well as some other things that you reported.

Changes from 13.01.03 to 13.01.04:

Improved default interface options – Improved default interface options.

PASTARTER Change – PASTARTER (Queue) reverted back to previous version.

Whats New:

Improved RAR engine – Increased speed of RAR engine by 15% on average.

Better look for Windows Classic theme – We improved the look of some windows if Windows classic theme is running. They look slightly different now depending on OS you have installed.

Improved Test Archives Tool – Better detection of broken archives.

Added option to not install Patchbeam for Enterprise users – Added option to not install Patchbeam for Enterprise users.

Improved Simple mode – Simple mode now shows FTP/Burner tabs.

Added SFX creation support in shell – Added support for creating SFX’s via Windows shell.

Various other improvements – Over 25 fixes/improvement since 13.00.26 release!

You can download PowerArchiver 2012 13.01.04 from our download page or simply Patchbeam it for superior experience..

Zip to Email (ZTE) – BETA 2

drazen — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:16:56 +0000

Dear users,

After your feedback, here is the new version of Zip to Email, your best option for zipping and encrypting your attachments .

What is Zip To Email? As the name suggests, Zip To Email would like to be the best application to handle your email attachments. It is extremely powerful and probably by far the most powerful application of its kind, but at the same time, it can be configured to be completely automated and out of users way. So administrators can adjust it to their needs with the use of GPO’s and end users pretty much dont even know that it is there. Please check out chart on the right side to see possible usage scenarios for Zip To Email.

Changes from BETA 1 to BETA 2:

Better compatibility with PA- Better compatibility between ZTE and PA installations.
SSL certificates can not be selected – Fixed problem with SSL certificates and their selections.
Configuration/Option Tab in Outlook 32/64bit – Fixed problem with configuration tab under Office 2010 32/64bit
Help page being sent twice – Fixed problem with help page being sent twice under certain scenarios.
Compression Dialogue appears twice – Fixed problem with compression dialogue being shown twice under certain scenarios
Various smaller improvements – Various smaller improvements and stability enhancements

Features:

ZIP, ZIPX, TAR, 7zip, CAB - support for all the popular formats via our own superb compression engine. Make your attachments smaller by up to 90%.
FIPS 140-2 Encryption – ZIP AES encryption is FIPS 140-2 certified, as well as FTP transfer SSL libraries, thus making ZTE suitable for any Government, Healthcare, Banking industry use. Secure your attachments with HIPPA compliant solution, fully compatible with WinZip, SecureZip and other software your partners might be using.
Shell Extensions – Right click on any file and send it to your email client, zipped, encrypted, anyway you want it.
Microsoft Outlook integration – zip, encrypt, upload, you attachments automatically with industry leading Outlook plugin (both 32bit and 64bit are supported).
Build your own Server Cloud – ZTE has unique support for uploading to your own FTP server and inserting FTP or HTTP link to the attachment, thus giving you option to have your own, and very affordable managed file transfer solution, under your own cloud/server, which you can manage and keep secure.
AttachmentCloud.com support – For those that would want full solution from us, you can use our own managed file transfer service called AttachmentCloud.com. Attachmentcloud.com is still in works, but it will be your one stop solution on delivering your data to your clients, effortlessly and securely.

You can test ZTE 1.00.23 Beta by downloading it here.

PowerArchiver 2012 13.01.03 Released!

drazen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:05:24 +0000

Dear users,

Whats New:

Improved RAR engine – Increased speed of RAR engine by 15% on average.

PASTARTER Windows 8 compatibility – PASTARTER (Queue) now works under Windows 8.

Better look for Windows Classic theme – We improved the look of some windows if Windows classic theme is running. They look slightly different now depending on OS you have installed.

Improved Test Archives Tool – Better detection of broken archives.

Added option to not install Patchbeam for Enterprise users – Added option to not install Patchbeam for Enterprise users.

Improved Simple mode – Simple mode now shows FTP/Burner tabs.

Added SFX creation support in shell – Added support for creating SFX’s via Windows shell.

Various other improvements – Over 25 fixes/improvement since 13.00.26 release!

You can download PowerArchiver 2012 13.01.03 from our download page or simply Patchbeam it for superior experience..

Zip to Email (ZTE) – BETA 1

drazen — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:26:46 +0000

Dear users,

After few months of development and testing, here is BETA version of Zip to Email, your best option for compressing and encrypting your attachments .

Features:

ZIP, ZIPX, TAR, 7zip, CAB - support for all the popular formats via our own superb compression engine. Make your attachments smaller by up to 90%.

FIPS 140-2 Encryption – ZIP AES encryption is FIPS 140-2 certified, as well as FTP transfer SSL libraries, thus making ZTE suitable for any Government, Healthcare, Banking industry use. Secure your attachments with HIPPA compliant solution, fully compatible with WinZip, SecureZip and other software your partners might be using.

Shell Extensions – Right click on any file and send it to your email client, zipped, encrypted, anyway you want it.

Microsoft Outlook integration – zip, encrypt, upload, you attachments automatically with industry leading Outlook plugin (both 32bit and 64bit are supported).

Build your own Server Cloud – ZTE has unique support for uploading to your own FTP server and inserting FTP or HTTP link to the attachment, thus giving you option to have your own, and very affordable managed file transfer solution, under your own cloud/server, which you can manage and keep secure.

AttachmentCloud.com support – For those that would want full solution from us, you can use our own managed file transfer service called AttachmentCloud.com. Attachmentcloud.com is still in works, but it will be your one stop solution on delivering your data to your clients, effortlessly and securely.

You can test ZTE 1.00.21 Beta by downloading it here.