CyberTrust Achieves Major Milestone- Licenses Over 10 Million Digital Certificates.Business/Technology Editors NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2000 Unique Mixture of Products and Services Helps CyberTrust License Twice as Many Digital Certificates as Any Other Vendor CyberTrust, a GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) company, today announced it has licensed over 10 million digital certificates worldwide, surpassing all other digital certificate vendors. CyberTrust's success stems from its innovative Secure Extranet Method, as well as its combined product and service offerings, global network of trusted partners and service providers worldwide. "The licensing of over 10 million CyberTrust digital certificates--more than double the number of digital certificates licensed or issued by our closest competitor--represents the success of our product and service offerings and secure extranet strategy," said Peter J. Hussey, president of CyberTrust. "CyberTrust's strategy draws from our unique mixture of products and services to assist customers in developing the infrastructure to manage digital certificates and create a secure environment to conduct high-value business-to-business transactions." CyberTrust's Secure Extranet Method is a strategy that helps its customers deploy digital certificates, or electronic credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. , for secure extranets by developing a 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 )--a leading-edge security infrastructure for secure online high-value transactions. This unique process specifies all the steps necessary to implement a highly secure online business solution for knowledge, document and supply-chain management. It includes everything from needs assessment to security policy design, application integration and penetration testing A test of a network's vulnerabilities by having an authorized individual actually attempt to break into the network. The tester may undertake several methods, workarounds and "hacks" to gain entry, often initially getting through to one seemingly harmless section, and from there, . Coupled with the company's unique product and services offerings, CyberTrust has leveraged its expertise to supply digital certificates to leading financial, healthcare and government institutions worldwide. And, it has extended this capability through enabling major service providers to serve their customer bases in local markets across the globe. About CyberTrust CyberTrust is the leading enabler of secure extranets and e-commerce for organizations extending their high-value relationships to the Web. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method establishes a first-in-market standard for certificate-enabled extranets that support privilege-based user access, data confidentiality, audit trails and 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. , binding transactions. Through our global network of partners, CyberTrust offers the industry's most complete suite of public key infrastructure-based products, outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. service and consulting. CyberTrust is a GTE company headquartered in Needham Heights, Mass., with offices in Washington, D.C., London, England and Sapporo, Japan. You can learn more about CyberTrust at www.cybertrust.com. About GTE With 1998 revenues of more than $25 billion, GTE is a leading telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. provider with one of the industry's broadest arrays of products and services. 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. , GTE provides local service in 28 states and wireless service in 18 states, as well as nationwide long-distance, directory and internetworking services ranging from dial-up Internet access See dial-up. for residential and small-business consumers to Web-based applications See Web application. for Fortune 500 companies. Outside the United States, the company serves customers on five continents. Additional information about GTE can be obtained at http://www.gte.com. |
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