Cohera Licenses RSA Security Technology to Assure Secure E-business with Cohera's E-Catalog System.Business Editors/High-tech Writers HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 The Cohera Secure Network Provides Internal and External Security for E-market Hubs Cohera Corporation, the leading supplier of e-catalogs for e-business, today announced a strategic relationship with 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. (Nasdaq: RSAS RSAS RSA Security, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) RSAS Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences RSAS RAND Strategy Assessment System RSAS Reactor Safety Assessment System ), through which RSA Security will provide the core encryption technology for secure e-commerce both within the Cohera E-Catalog System(TM) and with the e-market hub suppliers it connects. The combination of both Cohera's and 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. Security's innovations creates the Cohera Secure Network(TM), which protects e-market hubs against eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. , intrusion, forgery and tampering. Building on the Cohera E-Catalog System's standards-based foundation, Cohera is embedding RSA BSAFE SSL-C, RSA Security's implementation of the 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. (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. ) standard for encryption. RSA BSAFE SSL-C is the Internet's de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. implementation for this 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. standard and is used by the industry's best and most widely used transaction servers, Web servers and other Internet technologies. Certificate processing and authentication is achieved through RSA's BSAFE Cert-C, which features open libraries and standards to facilitate rapid integration. "In particular, business-to-business e-commerce creates a more urgent need for encryption, as each transaction tends to consist of proprietary business information in addition to the traditional currency exchange related data found in the business-to-consumer market," said Nancy Colwell, vice president of marketing at Cohera. "The task of integrating the commerce-critical data of several hundred suppliers compounds this issue, so Cohera is aggressive in ensuring that our customers are using the best possible defense against electronic eavesdroppers." "We're pleased to be working with Cohera to provide state-of-the-art security technologies for the Cohera Secure Network, delivering secure online catalogs for e-business," said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing at RSA Security Inc. "The relationship between our companies is designed to provide customers with secure, standards-based solutions that are easy to develop, deploy and scale." About the Cohera E-Catalog System Released in January 2000, the Cohera E-Catalog System uniquely aggregates and presents commerce-critical data from several sources within a single dynamic online "catalog" regardless of the original data's format, platform, location or ownership. As the relationships with suppliers progress, the E-Catalog System provides users with a clear and evolutionary migration path at every step between a loosely coupled See loose coupling. (scraping of static information) to tightly coupled See tight coupling. (dynamic data retrieval) relationship. To learn more about the Cohera E-Catalog System, join Cohera's March 08, 2000 web cast. Registration for the web cast seminar or more information about Cohera in can be found at http://www.cohera.com. Cohera will also be exhibiting at the Internet Electronic Commerce Exposition being held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on February 29, 2000 through March 02, 2000. About RSA Security Inc. RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security(TM), helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its RSA SecurID(R) two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA Keon(TM) public key management systems. With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be reached at www.rsasecurity.com. About Cohera Headquartered in Hayward, the Cohera Corporation is dedicated to providing fast-growing B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. firms with a scalable standards-based e-catalog infrastructure to drive dynamic e-markets. Cohera is privately held and backed by such industry-leading venture firms as Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sippl/MacDonald Ventures, Merrill Lynch Partners, Ignite Ventures and Cambridge Technology Capital. Cohera can be reached on the Web at http://www.cohera.com or by calling 510/780-1700. |
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