Entrust Technologies Grants Entrust-Ready Branding to Ensure Technologies' XyLoc Wireless PC Security.Business/Technology Editors Entrust SecureSummit SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2001 Ensure's Patented XyLoc(TM) Wireless PC Security Integrated to Operate with Entrust 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 Security Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent PC security solutions, today announced that Entrust Technologies Inc., the global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business, has granted Entrust-Ready(TM) status to Ensure's XyLoc(TM) wireless PC security solution. XyLoc's patented wireless security is now available to Entrust customers, giving them an added layer of protection against unauthorized access to the PC and its resources. Ensure will be exhibiting its solutions this week at Entrust Secure Summit 2001, January 22-25, 2001, San Diego Convention Center The San Diego Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Diego, California. It is located in the Marina district of downtown San Diego near the Gaslamp Quarter, at 111 West Harbor Drive. , San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif., Booth #214. "We are pleased that Ensure's XyLoc has been added to our repertoire of Entrust-Ready products," said Paul Doscher, executive vice president, marketing and business development, Entrust Technologies. "There is great synergy between Ensure's XyLoc wireless solution and our family of public-key software products. Together, they provide our users with a solution for securing and safeguarding access to data that combines security with convenience and ease of use." Ensure's patented XyLoc wireless security technology offers an extraordinary security solution for organizations seeking managed access to PCs, applications and confidential data without sacrificing convenience. Likewise, Entrust Technologies provides affordable security for e-business applications across multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. with fully automated key management. "We are delighted to complement our Entrust relationship with Entrust-Ready branding of XyLoc," said George Brostoff, co-founder and president of Ensure Technologies. "The new law giving digital signatures equal legal weight as handwritten hand·write tr.v. hand·wrote , hand·writ·ten , hand·writ·ing, hand·writes To write by hand. [Back-formation from handwritten.] Adj. 1. signatures intensifies the need to protect access to digital certificates. For companies implementing PKI in their security policies, XyLoc augments the Entrust PKI solution with its patented wireless technology of full-time access control, which adds a layer of protection to help prevent unauthorized access to digital certificates." XyLoc is a centrally managed, wireless computer security solution that prevents unauthorized access to confidential PC-based information, and simultaneously makes access to network services and applications more convenient for authorized employees. XyLoc's patented full-time access control technology protects sensitive data when it is most vulnerable: after logon, when the authorized user authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal steps away from the PC for any reason. Suited for a variety of scalable applications including healthcare and 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. , XyLoc is proximity-activated and completely "hands-free," requiring no user interaction. Because it enables the computer to know automatically and effortlessly who is requesting access to its resources, XyLoc offers security features and flexibility previously unavailable. XyLoc also simplifies access to PKI and protects digital certificates stored on PCs, helping to prevent unauthorized e-commerce transactions. Entrust's software products provide an infrastructure, meeting the exploding demand for public-key cryptography public-key cryptography - public-key encryption technology. With a standards-based public and private-key cryptography (cryptography) private-key cryptography - As opposed to public-key cryptography, a cryptographic method in which the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt the message. Private-key algorithms include the obsolescent Data Encryption Standard (DES), triple-DES (3DES), the Advanced key management solution, key updates are automatic, transparent to users. The solution allows the flexibility of deploying network security on a large scale, while minimizing administration costs and without compromising critical centralized controls. About Entrust Technologies, Inc. Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is a global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business relationships by securing and managing the transactions that constitute e-business. Through the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of trusted e-business infrastructure solutions, Entrust Technologies enables customers to secure their B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business , B2C (Business to Consumer) Refers to a business communicating with or selling to an individual rather than a company. See B2B. and internal enterprise transactions and communications, as well as to manage the e-business portals through which these transactions take place. Pioneers of public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions that provide security for business transactions and communications over the Internet, Entrust Technologies is a global company with offices around the world. For additional company information please visit www.entrust.com. About Ensure Technologies Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com) is the leader in intelligent security solutions designed to protect an organization's intellectual property and physical computing Physical computing, in the broadest sense, means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. While this definition is broad enough to encompass things such as smart automotive traffic control systems or assets from internal security breaches - conveniently, automatically and transparently. Ensure's award-winning XyLoc applies the innovative, patented technologies of full-time access control and proximity-based authentication to guard corporate data, and asset tracking to monitor and protect computing hardware throughout the enterprise from desktops to mobile PCs. As an associate member of the Bluetooth SIG, Ensure and its XyLoc wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth wireless devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more convenient to use. XyLoc is a trademark of Ensure Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies. Entrust is a trademark of Entrust Technologies in certain countries. Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies 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 other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks of Entrust Technologies. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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