Baltimore UniCERT Certificate Authority Now Available on Sun Systems.DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. & 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. team to offer 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 ) on scalable, reliable systems for secure e-business Baltimore Technologies (Nasdaq: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 it will provide support for the Sun(TM) Solaris(TM) Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. in the Certificate Authority (CA) module of its UniCERT(TM) PKI system. This collaboration between Sun Microsystems and Baltimore Technologies will make Baltimore UniCERT widely available to users of the highly reliable and highly available Sun platform. The decision to also provide a CA module for the Solaris Operating Environment was based on its UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) market leadership and widespread use around the world, including major banks and telecommunication companies. UniCERT's distributed architecture enables users to run its various modules on separate systems throughout a network. The Solaris Operating Environment and Sun Enterprise(TM) server family has proven itself to be a reliable and robust platform for mission critical systems. Running the core UniCERT module on Sun Systems will enable Baltimore's customers to operate UniCERT in a highly reliable and distributed manner. "Sun systems are deployed by leading organizations worldwide, and our support of Solaris recognizes the mission critical requirements of PKI and the need to support a wide variety of platforms. We look forward to a strong working relationship with Sun Microsytems that will allow us to deliver PKI security to the growing base of Sun customers," commented John O'Sullivan John O'Sullivan is the name of:
"PKI is rapidly becoming one of the key security infrastructure choices for a wide variety of network applications. Sun Microsystems is very motivated to work with Baltimore Technologies, and to enable our customers with a leading PKI system provided by Baltimore UniCERT worldwide," said Reed Hornberger, Director, Market Development, Sun Microsystems. Baltimore UniCERT is the CA of choice for both enterprise and Commercial CA's worldwide. It is one of the world's leading products for the issuance and management of digital certificates, which act like "electronic passports" for authenticating entities engaged in electronic business. UniCERT's open, standards based architecture and flexible, scalable, policy driven design uniquely addresses the hierarchical, interoperable business requirements of today's enterprises. The integrated UniCERT/Solaris solution will be demonstrated on Sun Microsystems booth at Global e-Security '99 this week in Dublin. Commercial availability of the product is scheduled for later this month. 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 Global e-Security '99 Global e-Security '99, the inaugural Baltimore Technologies Annual Convention, is taking place this year in Dublin, Ireland from 1st to 3rd November. Sponsored by Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Gemplus, ISOCOR, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sun Microsystems Global e-Security '99 is designed to educate delegates on all aspects of security for e-business. The convention is organized along three main tracks featuring over 70 speakers from around the world:- Enterprise Track; Developers Track; Digital Certificate Service Providers Track. Over 30 world leading vendors will demonstrate the very latest in PKI solutions and services in the "e-Security Village". View the Global e-Security '99 webcast at http://e-security99.baltimore.com Register now for Global e-Security 2000 at http://e-security2000.baltimore.com -0- Note to Editors: E-Security, Baltimore, 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. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Sun Enterprise, the Sun logo, and "The Network is the Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. |
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