Xcert's PKI Implementation For ABAecom Highlighted At Burton Group's Catalyst Conference.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---July 12, 1999-- Xcert International Inc., the premier developer of software products for securing business-to-business electronic commerce over the Internet, today announced that the ABAecom 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 implementation, which uses Xcert software, will be showcased at the upcoming Burton Group Catalyst Conference, July 12-14, in Lake Tahoe, California. In a presentation titled, "PKI in 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. Industry: Lessons Learned," Kawika Daguio, executive vice president of Financial Information Protection Association (FIPA FIPA Federation Internationale des Producteurs Agricoles (French: International Federation of Agricultural Producers) FIPA Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (British Columbia, Canada) , www.fipanet.org), former ABA Aba (ä`bä), city (1991 est. pop. 264,000), SE Nigeria. It is an important regional market, a road and rail hub, and a manufacturing center for cement, textiles, pharmaceuticals, processed palm oil, shoes, plastics, soap, and beer. employee and PKI architect for ABAecom (www.abaecom.com), will discuss how the ABA, the largest bank trade association in the US, and its subsidiary, ABAecom, use Xcert's PKI and digital certificate products as the technology foundation for enabling digital certificate-backed security in the American banking industry. "Since banks have historically been the providers of trust and security in commerce, PKI-enabled electronic commerce represents an incredible opportunity for financial institutions," said Kawika Daguio. "Xcert's highly flexible and scalable PKI and digital certificate technology provides ABAecom with a tool to transfer that historic trust to electronic transactions, which is essential for building the trusted relationships that will make electronic commerce pay off." ABAecom, through Digital Signature Trust Company (DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. ), the PKI service provider for ABAecom, uses Xcert's software to provide the foundation for the encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. and digital signature capabilities for the financial services community. ABAecom and DST are providing financial institutions with the ability to issue digital certificates. As part of the PKI-enabling program, Web sites registered by ABAecom can use these certificates in conjunction with a seal program and validation mechanism called "SiteCertain," assuring end users that they are visiting a legitimate bank's Web site. Each participating organization displays the SiteCertain logo on its Web site. ABAecom also uses a DST implementation of Xcert's Sentry CA software to deploy another CA that can be used to cross certify ABA member institutions' PKIs. Only institutions that adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. ABAecom's stringent security policies are eligible for cross certification. This solution, which requires a high degree of CA-to-CA 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. , allows banks to trust each other's certificates and thereby offer secure e-commerce services to millions of online customers.
Date: Tuesday, July 13
Time: 8:50 a.m. PST
Location: Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, Lake Tahoe, California
Title: Scaling Security/Security Case Study: PKI In the Financial
Services Industry: Lessons Learned
More Info: http://www.tbg.com/events/catalyst/catalyst.htm
About Xcert International Inc. Based in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , Xcert International Inc. is the premier developer of Public Key Infrastructure technology. Xcert's products provide privacy and authenticity for conducting secure Internet business transactions. Xcert develops, manufactures and distributes Certificate Authority and public key infrastructure solutions that use secure directory services to provide organizations and individuals with a secure and non-repudiable method of communicating with each other over the Internet. Xcert also licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web at www.xcert.com. Xcert, the Xcert logo, Sentry CA, Sentry RA, WebSentry are all trademarks of Xcert International, Inc. |
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