Baltimore Technologies Receives the Gold Award in Independent Evaluation of PKI Systems.Business Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Logo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Baltimore UniCERT Receives Top Award From the NSS (Novell Storage Services) A 64-bit file system introduced with NetWare 5 that can support terabyte-sized files. NSS files and standard NetWare files can be used in the same server. See NetWare 5. 1. (networking) NSS - Nodal Switching System. Group in a Head-to-Head Evaluation of 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 from Entrust, 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) and RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies was an internet security firm founded in 1976 by Michael Purser. It was acquired in 1996 by a team financed by Dermot Desmond and led by Fran Rooney, who became CEO. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BALT BALT bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue. BALT Bronchiole-associated lymphoid tissue, see MALT ; London:BLM BLM n abbr (US) (= Bureau of Land Management) → les domaines ), a global leader in e-commerce and enterprise security solutions, today announced that Baltimore UniCERT, its flagship e-security product, was awarded the Gold Award by The NSS Group, a leading independent network testing facility. The award was given to Baltimore UniCERT following the NSS Group's independent evaluation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology from leading PKI vendors. Baltimore UniCERT is the first product ever to receive the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Gold award and is the only product in the NSS Group's PKI report to receive this highest level of accreditation. The NSS Group evaluated PKI products from Baltimore Technologies, Entrust, IBM and RSA Security. Each PKI offering was put through a weeklong technical review at NSS headquarters. The evaluation consisted of an in-depth technical analysis of their products and of their individual pricing strategies There are many ways in which the price of a product can be determined. The following are the foremost strategies that businesses are likely to use. Competition-based pricing Setting the price based upon prices of the similar competitor products. . All products were analyzed on their ability to provide a complete comprehensive PKI solution which included the issuance and management of certificates, directory integration, key management, cross certification and client side software. The flexibility, power and ease of use of Baltimore UniCERT is clearly evident in the findings of the report, resulting in the NSS Group awarding the Gold Award for the first time ever. The NSS report describes Baltimore UniCERT as "A powerful database-driven policy engine, coupled with the excellent PKI Editor, makes UniCERT the most flexible CA solution out of the box of all those we have tested, yet it lacks none of the features we expect to see in a high-end solution." Bob Walder, Director, The NSS Group, went on to say, "UniCERT provides a vastly superior out-of-the-box experience. Overall we found UniCERT to be hard to beat in terms of value for money, features, flexibility and ease of use." Baltimore UniCERT is an award-winning certificate authority system that can be implemented for a wide variety of e-commerce and enterprise security systems. Using digital certificates, Baltimore UniCERT provides authentication and non-repudiation facilities for services such as secure Email, Internet shopping, secure Web banking, Online trading Online Trading Making trades via the Internet. Notes: The use of online trading increased dramatically in the mid to late 1990's with the advent of high-speed computers and Internet connections. Stocks, bonds, options, futures, and currencies can all be traded online. and Virtual Private Networks. UniCERT's pricing structure is both competitive and flexible, which led Bob Walder to conclude that, "This makes UniCERT one of the most cost-effective products we have tested." "The NSS Group's analysis was the most in-depth independent analysis ever conducted on PKI products. Baltimore is honored to be the first and only product to receive the coveted Gold Award which is independent recognition that we are leading the industry with comprehensive, easy-to-use security products," commented Helen Mullenger, UniCERT Product Manager at Baltimore Technologies. Baltimore UniCERT has become one of the world's leading PKI systems used in the most demanding security environments including banking, government and e-commerce. UniCERT has been sold in over 40 countries worldwide and is marketed by Baltimore Technologies and its TrustedWorld Business and Technology Partners. The full NSS review can be downloaded from the Baltimore Technologies' web site http://www.baltimore.com/library/whitepapers/nssgroup.html About Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, e-commerce and the Internet. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) systems, cryptographic toolkits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld(TM) channel program. TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners. Baltimore Technologies employs over 450 people worldwide and operates from over 20 cities with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; London, UK; Boston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company with dual listings on NASDAQ (BALT) and the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. (BLM). Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking is a minority shareholder in the Company. Baltimore Technologies made e-commerce history in 1998 when President Clinton and Ireland's Prime Minister Ahern digitally signed Any message or key that has been encrypted with a digital signature. When a user's public key is digitally signed by a certification authority (CA), it is known as a digital certificate or digital ID. See digital signature and digital certificate. an inter-governmental communique using security technology provided by Baltimore. For further information and press releases on Baltimore Technologies, please visit http://www.baltimore.com About The NSS Group Founded in 1991,The NSS Group is Europe's foremost independent network testing facility and consultancy organization. NSS Head Office is based in Cambridgeshire in the UK. Further offices offer fully equipped testing labs and seminar centers also in Cambridgeshire and in the south of France South of France south n the South of France → le Sud de la France, le Midi . The NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT and Networking services to vendors and end-user organizations throughout Europe and the United States. The Group's core range of services focus on the following:
Independent Test Labs
Network Security
Network Consultancy
Technical Writing
Media Events
Recent clients include: 3Com, Attachmate, CA, Eicon, Foundry Networks, Intel, Lucent, Milgo, Newbridge, Nortel Networks, Novell, Olivetti, Seagate, Shiva, WallData. For more information on The NSS Group please visit http://www.nss.co.uk or email info@nss.co.uk E-Security, Baltimore Technologies, TrustedWorld, PKIWorld and Baltimore product names including UniCERT, MailSecure, PKI-Plus and J/CRYPTO are all trademarks of Baltimore Technologies plc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Certain statements that are not historical facts including certain statements made over the course of this document may be forward-looking in nature. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance and achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements implied by such forward-looking statements. |
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