CoreStreet and Entrust Announce a Technology Alliance to Extend Security Solutions For Government, Healthcare and Financial Institution Customers.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- CoreStreet Joins Entrust TrustedPartner Program as a Technology Partner CoreStreet, a leading provider of validation solutions for identity management and access control, and Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU), a world-leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, today announced a global alliance to deliver highly scalable, secure and cost-effective security products and services intended for organizations in the government, healthcare and 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. industries. This agreement is under the auspices of the Entrust TrustedPartner Program. As a Technology Partner, CoreStreet is taking a vital step in order for selected products and solutions to achieve Entrust Ready(TM) status. The Entrust Ready designation is awarded by Entrust and refers to products and services that have been reviewed for compatibility and interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. with Entrust products. Under the TrustedPartner agreement, Entrust makes its software available and provides integration guidance in order to help a Technology Partner's offering fulfill the Entrust Ready requirements. CoreStreet intends to perform integration testing (testing) integration testing - A type of testing in which software and/or hardware components are combined and tested to confirm that they interact according to their requirements. Integration testing can continue progressively until the entire system has been integrated. for its flagship OCSP OCSP Online Certificate Status Protocol OCSP Off-Campus Study Program credential validation offering, Real Time Credential Validation Authority (RTC See real time clock. VA), for use with Entrust Digital IDs to provide an alternate method of certificate validation, using an approach called Distributed OCSP. Distributed OCSP is based on the centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. (potentially offline) pre-generation of signed validation proofs for Entrust certificates that can be published through an extremely scalable network of lightweight, unsecured Responders (OCSP client to RTC VA go-betweens) to reduce certificate validation request latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. . "Entrust customers are recognizing the need to strongly authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. users to laptops and workstations in order to address privacy and information security governance Information Security Governance, Information Security Governance or ISG, is a subset discipline of Corporate Governance focused on information Security systems and their performance and risk management. requirements," said Eric Skinner, vice president, Secure Data Solutions, Entrust. "With CoreStreet's unique digital certificate validation technology and Entrust's strong authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. capabilities, customers will be better able to simplify their processes for validating digital certificates in order to provide secure access control. We are pleased to welcome CoreStreet into the TrustedPartner Program and look forward to successful deployment of the combined solution." "In numerous industries, including government, healthcare and financial services, adding the validation layer to the access control equation will make digital and physical locations more secure," 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. Phil Libin, president of CoreStreet. "We are pleased to be working with Entrust to create products that enable strong authentication and credential validation for secure access by individuals, whether that be to a computer network or to a physical location." About Entrust Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is a world-leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions. Entrust software helps enable enterprises and governments to extend their business reach to customers, partners and employees. Entrust's solutions for secure identity management, secure messaging and secure data can help increase productivity and improve extended relationships by helping to transform the way transactions are done online. Over 1,250 organizations in more than 50 countries use Entrust's proven software and services to turn business and security challenges into secure business opportunities. For more information, please visit: www.entrust.com About CoreStreet CoreStreet is the only provider of massively scalable validation products for identity management and access control. With CoreStreet's Real Time Credentials(TM), organizations can control physical and logical access to buildings, computer networks, applications and devices. Real Time Credentials solutions can be deployed anywhere in the world - in connected and disconnected environments - without having to set up costly and vulnerable infrastructure. CoreStreet's products are designed to secure large, mission-critical applications for military, civilian government, financial services and healthcare customers. The company, headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., holds 14 patents with more pending. For more information, visit www.CoreStreet.com. Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, 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 certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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