Atalla Announces Powerful New PCI-based Internet Security Processor Products for SET Payments, General Purpose Cryptography.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--Atalla, (a Tandem Company) today announced that it has developed new PCI-based Internet Security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. Processor (ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ) products initially designed for SET (Secure Electronic Transaction Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over insecure networks, specifically, the Internet. SET is not itself a payment system, but rather a set of security protocols and formats that enables users to employ the existing ) Payments and General Purpose cryptography applications. The new PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). technology extends Atalla's security processing capabilities into dramatically new application areas and new markets. The new products, dubbed Atalla PayMaster/PCI ISP and Atalla Websafe2/PCI ISP will sell for less than $5,000 and are designed to be bundled with application software, server hardware and services for end-to-end Internet Commerce applications. They can perform up to 50 RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. operations per second. "These new high-performance PCI-based processors are the perfect add-in security product for OEMs and VARs that want to add high-performance security functionality transparently to their solutions, and at a price point that customers require for Internet commerce," said Gary Sabo, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Atalla. "They provide robust features, and can manage a full range of security functions such as RSA, DSA (1) (Directory Server Agent) An X.500 program that looks up the address of a recipient in a Directory Information Base (DIB), also known as white pages. It accepts requests from the Directory User Agent (DUA) counterpart in the workstation. , hashing and DES algorithms, physical protection of keys, and high-volume performance requirements for public key operations on merchant, gateway or intranet servers." Atalla PayMaster(TM) ISP Atalla's PayMaster ISP products are designed specifically to manage the cryptographic requirements specified by the SET protocol. This protocol specifies how cardholders, merchants, issuing banks and acquiring banks will interact to ensure secure payment processing over the Internet. The new SET protocol relies on specially developed encryption technology, and has been adopted by Visa and MasterCard to secure payment card transactions over public networks such as the Internet. The protocol requires multiple public key operations for each SET transaction. The new Atalla PayMaster/PCI ISP product offloads computationally-intensive tasks from server CPUs, and manages cryptographic keys within a physically secure shell. This ensures that data cannot be altered at any point in the network, and accelerates the required SET-specified public-and-private key operations. Atalla's PayMaster/PCI ISP handles RSA and DES-based cryptography to provide a high-performance bridge to the bank payments network. Atalla WebSafe(TM)2 ISP Atalla's WebSafe2 Internet Security Processors are the workhorse products in the Atalla product line. They provide a full range of hardware-based security features for Internet applications such as transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , Privacy Enhanced Mail See PEM. Privacy Enhanced Mail - (PEM) Internet electronic mail which provides confidentiality, authentication and message integrity using various encryption methods. See also Pretty Good Privacy. and Electronic Data Interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. . Atalla's WebSafe2/PCI ISP provides support for algorithms such as RSA (public key) and DES (secret key), and Internet protocols such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. ) 3.0. Specialized Atalla Internet Security processors perform all cryptographic processing within the confines of a physically and logically secured shell. Any attempt to tamper with the system triggers "zeroization" of data such as passwords, keys and algorithms. Hardware-embedded programming prevents retrieval of keys or sensitive data in cleartext form. By contrast, software-based security products decrypt To convert secretly coded data (encrypted data) back into its original form. Contrast with encrypt. See plaintext and cryptography. sensitive data in unsecured memory, displaying both keys and algorithms in readable form, which makes the data vulnerable to cyber-pirate attacks. Atalla (a Tandem Company) Atalla (a Tandem Company) brings nearly 25 years of experience securing commerce over private networks to the public networks and the Internet/Intranet arena. The company's products include industry-leading hardware-based security processors for the Internet, Intranet and the bank transfer networks, POS/POE (point-of-sale/point-of-entry)credit/debit payment terminals, customer authorization and PIN selection terminals, and secure enrollment products for banking, retailing and government applications. An estimated 70 percent of all ATM transactions in North America (estimated value: $1.4 trillion daily) are secured by Atalla's specialized security processor products. The Atalla Division is headquartered at 2304 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95131, Phone: (408) 435-8850. Fax: (408) 435-1116. -0- Note to Editors: Tandem, WebSafe, PayMaster and Atalla are trademarks of Tandem Computers Incorporated. All other marks are property of their respective companies. CONTACT: Atalla (a Tandem Company) Gary Lefkowitz, 408/435-5715 lefkowitz_gary @tandem.com |
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