Aventail Partners With Xcert to Provide Scalable, PKI-Enabled Extranet.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 24, 1999-- Xcert International Inc., the premier developer of software products for securing business-to-business electronic commerce over the Internet, announced today that Aventail Corporation, the leading provider of Extranet Infrastructure Services, is joining Xcert's OpenXchange Partner Program. As a result of the new partnership, Aventail's enterprise extranet solutions will be interoperable The ability for one system to communicate or work with another. See interoperability. with Xcert's suite of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of ) products. Aventail and Xcert will also collaborate on joint sales and marketing objectives. Aventail's widely-deployed product, Aventail ExtraNet Center, tightly integrates strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. , user-based authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , access control, and powerful administrative tools into one easy-to-use management solution for sharing data and applications over IP networks. Aventail's enterprise customers will be able to take advantage of Xcert's PKI software to deploy flexible and secure digital certificate-based user authentication See authentication. for highly scalable extranet implementations. "Digital certificates are gaining ground as the preferred method for strong and flexible user authentication outside the corporate firewall," said Evan Kaplan, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Aventail Corporation. "The combination of Xcert's PKI solution and Aventail's communications infrastructure provides progressive Global 2000 companies with secure extranets that meet their most stringent scalability requirements." "This new relationship with Aventail exemplifies the current trend for market leaders to integrate with Xcert's open and scalable PKI products," said Patrick Richard, chief technology officer of Xcert. "By using Xcert's Sentry CA product, Aventail customers can be certain that electronic communications outside the corporate firewall are secure and that e-commerce transactions can be signed with digital signatures." Xcert's OpenXchange Partner Program is targeted to e-commerce product vendors, channel partners, systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. and consultants who are committed to deploying, supporting or interoperating with Xcert's award winning Sentry CA solution. The OpenXchange program enables partners to plug in Xcert's open and scalable PKI and digital signature solution and thereby provide the critical enabling technology for secure and non-repudiable electronic commerce over the Internet. As part of the program, Xcert assures that stringent interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. criteria have been met by awarding technology partners with the Xcertified seal of approval. Xcert's Interoperability Lab issues the Xcertified seal after certifying that partners' products meet the integration requirements for large scale PKI deployments. Other benefits of the OpenXchange program include joint sales and marketing activities and preferential pref·er·en·tial adj. 1. Of, relating to, or giving advantage or preference: preferential treatment. 2. access to Xcert training and technology. Xcert's Sentry CA 3.6 solution allows an organization to own and operate its own digital certificate authority (CA) 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. its own existing business practices. The only solution that interoperates with all other standard PKI systems and extends PKI beyond the firewall, Xcert's Sentry CA enables enterprises to exchange digital certificates with business partners and customers regardless of location. Xcert's technology enables financial institutions, large corporations and government agencies to increase revenue and improve productivity by conducting sensitive business transactions electronically. About Aventail Corporation Founded in 1996, Aventail has quickly emerged as the leader in providing Extranet Infrastructure Services for the Global 2000. Aventail's solutions allow organizations to securely extend their enterprise resources to strategic partners, suppliers, customers, consultants and other key individuals over public IP networks. Leading corporations are using Aventail's extranet solutions to help them increase their competitive advantage, raise profits, and leverage investments in existing and future enterprise systems. Aventail's solutions are currently deployed at companies such as Aetna, Bear Stearns The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (NYSE: BSC) is the parent company of Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., one of the largest global investment banks and securities trading and brokerage firms in the world. , Kodak, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , IKON, Marriott and Xerox. Aventail Corporation is privately held and based in Seattle, with European headquarters in Essex, England. For more information, please visit www.aventail.com. About Xcert International Inc. Based in Walnut Creek, Xcert International Inc. is the premier developer of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology. Xcert's products provide privacy and authenticity for conducting secure Internet business transactions. Xcert develops, manufactures and distributes Certificate Authority and Public Key Infrastructure solutions that use secure directory services to provide organizations and individuals with a secure and non-repudiable method of communicating with each other over the Internet. Xcert also licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web at www.xcert.com. Note to Editors: All product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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