Access360 Joins Check Point's OPSEC Program.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2000 Access360, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure software solutions for access management and provisioning in the enterprise, business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) and Application Service Provider (ASP) marketplace, today announced that it has joined Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.'s (Nasdaq:CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) internationally recognized OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for (Open Platform for Security) program. This will ensure that Access360's enRole(R) multi-platform access management product will become interoperable with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1/FireWall-1 product. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jeff Drake, Access360's executive vice president of strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and development: "Our partnership with Check Point is a highly strategic one. We plan to develop a specific Agent for our industry-leading access management solution. This will allow Check Point and Access360 to provide a unique solution to address the global User Provisioning The ability for customers to change voice and data services from their carriers online without having to place the order with a human representative. Web-based user provisioning lets you add and delete services and features from your browser. See automated provisioning. and Access Management requirements of corporations and ASPs." "We are pleased to announce that Access360 has joined our OPSEC Program," said Bradley Brown, director of business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "As one of our OPSEC Framework Partners, Access360 will be able to work towards giving Check Point customers a powerful tool for managing e-business access across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. , and extend Check Point's SVN SVN Subversion (version control system) SVN Slovenia (international traffic code) SVN Social Venture Network SVN South Vietnam SVN Secure Virtual Network SVN Supervised Visitation Network (Secure Virtual Networking) Architecture to secure users, applications, systems and networks across intranets, extranets and the Internet." enRole empowers enterprises to manage a unified system for multi-platform access management. It provides workflow-based capabilities that streamline the process of provision users into the corporate environment, altering and revoking access privileges in corporate information systems. With support for more than 30 applications, databases, networks and security products, enRole is the most extensive solution for e-business access management available today. Access360 is also extending enRole to provide access management for the e-commerce infrastructure, including support for LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. , certificate authorities and virtual private networks (VPNs). About OPSEC OPSEC is the industry's leading architecture for Internet security integration and interoperability. The OPSEC Alliance includes more than 200 companies with "best-of-breed" product solutions that take advantage of the OPSEC architecture and integrate tightly with Check Point Software Technologies' Secure Virtual Network solutions. OPSEC-integrated products provide customers with choice and centralized management across all aspects of Internet security. Products that carry the OPSEC-certified and OPSEC-secured seals have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information including partner and product listings, freely available SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC-certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com About Access360 Based in Irvine, Access360 is the leader in Internet infrastructure software solutions for access management and provisioning in the enterprise, business-to-business, and Application Service Provider marketplace. Access360 serves Global 2000 customers in a wide range of markets, including Internet-based and traditional finance, manufacturing and telecommunications companies. The company's enRole product, with more than 500,000 users managed today, introduces a unified layer of control and a single source for managing and auditing access on multiple platforms, making e-business and access management faster, cheaper and more effective. For more information about Access360, call 877/742-6400, or visit the Web site at www.access360.com |
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