Conclusive Logic Introduces the TrustGate Authentication Gateway for Web Applications.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

Technology in Government Week

MAIDENHEAD, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2001

Conclusive Logic, a provider of enterprise security infrastructure management solutions for industry and government, announced the release of its TrustGate(TM) Authentication Gateway application.

TrustGate expands Conclusive's growing portfolio of business-driven eSecurity applications, providing commercial and government organizations with robust authentication, access control, auditing and administration capabilities for managing internal and external network access to their Web-based applications and services.

TrustGate responds to the growing requirement for PKI-based authentication for Web-enabled workflow applications and delivers a greatly enhanced level of access control for enterprise Web portals. Leveraging Conclusive's proven TrustLogic(TM) middleware technology, TrustGate provides a common PKI authentication service to all the Web applications of an enterprise.

More importantly, it provides the comprehensive set of security controls previously absent from most Web portal software - controls that are absolutely essential for protecting access to the critical applications and sensitive data organizations are increasingly making available to a wide variety of customers, partners and suppliers through their corporate portals.

TrustGate enables digital certificate-based strong authentication for "legacy" Web applications that are not PKI aware, without the costly and time consuming need to modify their core code in order to support this enhanced level of access control.

Specific TrustGate capabilities include:

-- A single, digital certificate-based authentication methodology that operates
across all of a customer's Web applications, whether they currently use
certificate-based authentication or not.

-- A "Portal Mode" configuration in which users will be presented a menu of
only those applications they have access to, based on their assigned
privileges.

-- Mutual authentication of users and applications.

-- Support for a wide variety of Public Key technologies, including
Certification Authorities (CAs), user tokens and certificate validation
methodologies.

-- Ability to utilize different certificates for different applications, by the
same user

-- Flexible, role and rule-based access control to Web applications -- provided
through Conclusive's innovative "intelligent trust" approach for creating
multiple trust levels that are predicated on an organization's own policies,
process and rules - which effectively extends the "degrees-of-trust" concept
that exists in the real-world to the management of electronic trust
relationships within a digital environment.

-- A cryptographically secure audit log of user access to applications ensures
that authorized personnel know the "who", "when" and "what" of all online
access activity to their enterprise portals and Web applications.

TrustGate leverages the core functionality of Conclusive's TrustLogic Server and TrustLogic Agent software to provide these capabilities.

TrustLogic is an enterprise security middleware package that links the underlying technologies of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to the Web applications they are intended to protect -- enabling organizations to realize the benefits of Web services for eBusiness and eGovernment, while unlocking the full potential of their investments in PKI.

TrustLogic is the first product to give organizations the ability to readily apply the proven processes and context-sensitive rules they already use to conduct traditional, paper-based transactions to the electronic communication and exchange of information.

It enables organizations to use their own business "logic" to drive the critical decisions of whom they will trust and to what extent they will trust them, within the context of the particular application and information being accessed.

In this way, TrustGate operates as a Web application that interacts with TrustLogic in order to apply specific TrustLogic services across generic Web environments.

For additional information about Conclusive Logic and its products, contact the company at 703/734-3000, or visit the Conclusive Web site at www.conclusive.com

Conclusive, the Conclusive logo, TrustLogic and TrustGate are trademarks of Conclusive Logic, Ltd., and Conclusive Logic, Inc.