Entrust Technologies' new Toolkit will accelerate deployment of Internet applications.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1997-- EntrustIPSec Negotiator Toolkit also demonstrates unmatched interoperability with leading remote access and firewall products Entrust Technologies, the leading provider of Certification Authority See CA. and public-key management products, today expanded its reach into the Internet marketplace See vertical portal and Web hub. with a new product that will facilitate faster-to-market Internet remote access and electronic commerce applications. The EntrustIPSec(TM) Negotiator Toolkit enables developers to quickly and easily deploy IP Security (IPSec) applications such as remote access, firewall, single sign-on An identification system that lets users log into multiple Web sites on the Internet with one username and password. Single sign-on systems are also used within an enterprise, enabling users to access all authorized resources in the local network using the same username and password. and access control solutions. Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , Stamford, Conn. "It is widely recognized that the Internet needs strong data protection and authentication before it is fully utilized as a business tool," said John Ryan John Ryan can refer to:
"No other company has yet been able to offer a product like ours, especially at the high level of interoperability that our Toolkit has demonstrated," he added. On the heels of its recent announcement on the success of its S/MIME See MIME. Toolkit testing, Entrust is once again demonstrating unmatched, standards-based interoperability: the EntrustIPSec Negotiator Toolkit has been shown to interoperate with products from Check Point Software Technologies Inc., Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. Inc., FTP Software, IRE, Raptor, TimeStep and Trusted Information Systems Trusted Information Systems (TIS) was a computer security research and development organization during the 1980s and 1990s, performing computer security research for organizations such as NSA, DARPA, ARL, AFRL, SPAWAR, and others. . The newest addition to the company's family of open, standards-based applications programming interfaces (APIs), the EntrustIPSec Negotiator Toolkit provides Internet Security Association Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP (Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol) A framework for establishing trusted interactions among entities using TCP/IP. See IKE. ISAKMP - Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol ) key negotiation services and peer authentication as well as Entrust(R) key management services to IPSec applications in a corporate environment. The Toolkit eliminates the complexity and need for specialized expertise to build a scaleable public-key infrastructure for key management functions. In addition, it overcomes the biggest weakness of current Internet remote access systems: the lack of standards-based key transfer mechanisms and certificate life cycle management. Without these, firewall and other vendors are limited in the scaleability and the resulting acceptance of their products. Developers using the EntrustIPSec Negotiator toolkit will join the long list of Entrust-Ready(TM) applications. Their customers will benefit by being able to administer security only once rather than individually for all applications. Positive Responses "Cisco is committed to IPSec as the emerging strategic technology for multivendor security," said Bill Kelly, director, Network Services Marketing at Cisco Systems. "IPSec will be the basis for mobility, firewalling, enterprise security and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. (Virtual Private Network) services. Entrust has been instrumental in leading the effort to provide interoperable digital certificate capabilities for IPSec." "Raptor adheres to open industry standards wherever possible and was the first firewall vendor to ship an IPSec-compliant VPN product with the release of Eagle 4.0," said Lance Urbas, vice president of product marketing and technical services, Raptor Systems Inc. "In keeping with our commitment to standards, Raptor has chosen to partner with Entrust, the industry leader in 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 ) technology, to deliver the key management and distribution element of IPSec. As part of this relationship, Raptor will be able to provide support for X.509 V3 digital certificates in our EagleMobile product for secure remote access. Along with support for Entrust's X.500 Directory Services, this will enhance the ease of use and administration of EagleMobile as the number of units deployed climbs into the tens of thousands." "Check Point Software's support for ISAKMP and other emerging standards within the IPSec working group is a critical component of our OPSEC (OPerations SECurity) The U.S. military term for concealing critical information as part of a counterintelligence plan. A form of "security by obscurity," OPSEC determines what information adversaries can obtain or piece together from observation and to provide measures for (Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity) enterprise security management framework," stated Asheem Chandna, vice president of business development, Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. "We applaud Entrust's efforts to deliver standards-based interoperability via the EntrustIPSec Negotiator ToolKit to enable our mutual customers interoperability via the ISAKMP standard." "Trusted Information systems is delighted to work with Entrust Technologies to meet our mutual customers' needs for standards-based scaleable IPSec encryption," said Steven B. Lipner, executive vice president of Trusted Information systems' Network Security Products Division. "The EntrustIPSec Negotiator Toolkit will allow our customers to exploit both the industry-leading security of the Gauntlet family of network security products and the security and ease of management of Entrust cryptographic infrastructure." Pricing and Availability Entrust Technologies' new EntrustIPSec Negotiator Toolkit is currently in alpha testing. The beta release is expected in early May, and the commercial release is expected in the third quarter of 1997. The IPSec Negotiator Toolkit will be available to development organizations for a one-time license fee plus annual maintenance fee. Entrust Technologies, formerly known as Nortel Secure Networks, is dedicated to ensuring the privacy and authenticity of data communications enterprisewide. Entrust Technologies has a team of world-leading experts in cryptography, security architectures and international standards. Its industry leading Entrust software family provides affordable security for enterprise applications across multiple platforms, with automated key management. Entrust is widely used by financial institutions, government agencies, high-tech and other corporations. Entrust Technologies is a majority owned subsidiary of Nortel (Northern Telecom) and operates out of its offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , California, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. and Ottawa. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks of Entrust Technologies Limited. All other product and company names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Entrust Technologies Shauna White, 613/763-9244 e-mail: shaunaw@entrust.com Internet: http://www.entrust.com or Thomas Associates Inc. Mike Valentino, 212/332-7804 e-mail: mike@nythomaspr.com |
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