● The overarching goal is to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Protected Health Information (PHI) that are utilized in digital health software tools or approved Digital Square global goods. Protecting this type of information is critical to Digital Square being able to realize the value of its investment in digital health software tools or global goods that utilize PII or critical information. ● A typical investment for an on-premise deployment would be around $100,000 for an infrastructure that provides fault tolerance and high-availability, with about $25,000 annual support costs. Professional Services integration costs (for framework or specific global goods integration) would range from $25,000 to $50,000. ● StrongKey provides strong authentication and data protection using an open source software stack deployed on hardware appliances that can house either a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) or a Hardware Security Module (HSM). The hardware (TPM or HSM) is chosen to protect the security keys required for the cryptographic techniques required to achieve the overall goal. ● StrongKey has developed and delivered the reference server for the FIDO2 protocol which is an authentication protocol adopted by 250 key Fortune companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Apple, to name but a few. The FIDO2 server provides strong authentication, while sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) or Protected Health Information (PHI) can be secured through the use of simple web service (SOAP or REST) API calls. For the non-technical this makes cryptography easily implementable to developers, and takes away the headache of understanding the nuances of cryptography. ● One thing to note is the type of tools and goods that Digital Square is investing in is open to ransomware attacks by aggressive bad actors. StrongKey is able to mitigate such attacks with the use of the appliances described here.