ClearTrust SecureControl Delivers Highest Web Site Login Performance Ever Recorded by Mindcraft.Business/Technology Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 ClearTrust SecureControl Delivers 4X Better Login Performance than Netegrity SiteMinder, and 18X Better than enCommerce getAccess Securant Technologies, the access management company that secures eBusiness, today announced that ClearTrust SecureControl achieved record setting login performance in evaluations conducted by independent test lab Mindcraft, Inc. Running on two uni-processor Sun Enterprise 450 servers, ClearTrust SecureControl version 4.2 delivered 45,767 Logins per minute against a database of one million users. In addition, ClearTrust SecureControl delivered nearly identical performance when the number of users in the database was increased to five million. Compared to benchmark tests conducted by Mindcraft earlier this year, ClearTrust SecureControl achieved 4 times more logins per minute than Netegrity SiteMinder, and 18 times more logins per minute than enCommerce getAccess. These performance numbers provide further evidence that ClearTrust SecureControl scales beyond departmental applications and is capable of supporting true Internet-class traffic loads. The ability to support a database of millions of users and process tens of thousands of Logins per minute is required to handle Web-based enterprise applications, Application Service Provider (ASP) hosting, and exploding wireless eBusiness transactions in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , travel, and retail sectors. "The Mindcraft performance results clearly demonstrate that ClearTrust SecureControl is designed to deliver the same exceptional level of throughput from the departmental application all the way up to multi-million user and transaction Internet environments," said Eric Olden old·en adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to time long past; old or ancient: olden days. [Middle English : old, old; see old + -en, adj. , chief technology officer, Securant Technologies. "The fact that these performance numbers were certified by the same independent lab that recently tested the Netegrity and enCommerce products was no accident. We wanted customers to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt Adv. 1. beyond a shadow of a doubt - in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted; "it was immediately and indubitably apparent that I had interrupted a scene of lovers"; "his guilt was established beyond a shadow of a doubt" , who the true throughput and scalability leader really is." Test Methodology Mindcraft tested the performance of ClearTrust SecureControl Version 4.2 running on two uni-processor Sun Enterprise 450 servers. For these tests the Mindcraft iLOAD MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. (TM) test tool running the AuthMark(TM) Benchmark Login Scenario was used. This tool simulated users logging into Web servers. A login is the combination of one user authentication See authentication. and one authorization for access to a resource (a file in our case). The tests were done using two different user database sizes: one with 1,000,000 users and the other with 5,000,000 users. All tests were done without caching in the ClearTrust Web server plug-in to show its worst-case login performance for 10% of the users in the database getting one file each. 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. Mindcraft, "ClearTrust SecureControl provides the highest login performance of any product we have tested to date. Its performance scales exceptionally well as more CPUs and Authorizer systems are added. In addition, ClearTrust SecureControl delivered nearly the identical performance with a single CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. Authorizer system when we increased the number of users in the ClearTrust SecureControl database from one million to five million." Compare All The Results The complete results of the ClearTrust SecureControl Login Performance tests, as well as the results of the Netegrity SiteMinder and enCommerce getAccess tests, are available at http://www.mindcraft.com. About ClearTrust SecureControl ClearTrust SecureControl is an integrated, rules-based and directory-enabled suite of security products that provides a secure infrastructure for controlling user access to Web-based resources including applications, content and transactions. ClearTrust SecureControl uses natural language business rules (called Smart Rules(TM)) to centralize, unify and automate every component of access management including access control, single-sign on, authentication, authorization, delegated administration Delegated administration describes the decentralization of role-based-access-control systems. Many enterprises use a centralized model of access control. For large organizations, this model scales poorly and IT teams become burdened with menial role-change requests. , policy assessment, threat detection and auditing. ClearTrust SecureControl also allows, via its Virtual Business Units, time consuming user administration workloads to be distributed on three levels: within a company (across departments, divisions, etc.); externally to Extranet partners and customers; and to individual users/subscribers via a self-service function. Finally, ClearTrust SecureControl provides integrated application level threat detection and counter measures to proactively secure e-business transactions and prevent fraud. About Securant Technologies Securant Technologies, the access management company that secures eBusiness, is a leading developer of 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. software that provides a secure infrastructure for controlling user access to Web-based resources including applications, content and transactions. The company's flagship product, ClearTrust SecureControl, uses business rules to centralize, unify and automate every facet of access management including user authentication, authorization, access control, single sign-on, delegated administration, application-level threat detection, policy assessment and auditing. Securant customers include Chase Hambrecht & Quist, First Union/The Money Store, Lehman Brothers and Thomson Financial Thomson Financial A major provider of information, analytical tools, and consulting services to the financial community. The firm, a division of Thomson Corporation, is best known to investors for its First Call segment, which publishes consensus earnings . The company's partners include BEA/WebLogic (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 :BEAS), Check Point (NASDAQ: CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), Entrust Technologies (NASDAQ:ENTU), Fujitsu, Netscape Communications, Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ), Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), Sybase (NASDAQ:SYBS) and Verisign (NASDAQ:VRSN VRSN Verisign, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) VRSN Version Number (NEC) ). Securant is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco. To contact Securant call 415.315.1500, visit us on the Web at http://www.securant.com, or write to info@securant.com. Unified Access Management, 24/7 Security, ClearTrust, ClearTrust SecureControl, ClearTrust Virtual Business Units and SpeedSecure are trademarks of Securant Technologies Inc. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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