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Thursday May 31, 8:01 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: Certicom Corp.
Certicom Strengthens Position in E-Business Security Market, Adds Four New Customers of Leading SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Product
GRIC Communications, a Leading Provider of Internet-based Mobile Office Communications Services, Using SSL Plus for Advanced Security in GRICtraveler(TM)
HAYWARD, CA, May 31 /PRNewswire/ - Continuing to strengthen its position as a leading provider of e-business security, Certicom (Nasdaq: CERT - news; TSE: CIC - news), today announced that is has signed license agreements with four companies. The licensees include GRIC Communications, Inc., 2 Cactus Development, Inc., Allegro Software Development Corporation and Automated Power Exchange, Inc. These companies have licensed Certicom's leading SSL Plus(TM) software to enhance the security and trust of their respective internal applications and e-business offerings.
Certicom's SSL Plus toolkit is the industry's most widely deployed commercial SSL product, due largely to its ease of use, rapid development time, and support for RSA, DSA/Diffie-Hellman and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithms - the only SSL product with that capability. Certicom's SSL Plus toolkit is used by leading companies such as Agilent, BEA Systems, Citrix, Juno, Netscape, Nortel, Oracle and Sybase to build security into a wide range of applications and products for the Internet, intranets, and corporate networks, from traditional Web browsers and servers to home banking products, handheld devices, and legacy mainframes.
GRIC Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRIC - news) is a leader in delivering Internet-based mobile office communications services to ISPs, communications providers and enterprise customers. Combining state-of-the-art technology with its managed global GRIC Alliance Network(TM) of more than 300 service providers, GRIC delivers its services in more than 150 countries and enables Internet access through more than 12,000 dialing locations.
2 Cactus Development is an Internet-security software and services firm, operating in the open-source arena, based in Phoenix, Arizona. 2 Cactus' cornerstone product, SecureBSD, is a comprehensive, kernel-based security solution that enhances the BSD operating system with a proactive, intrusion prevention security overlay.
Allegro Software is a leading OEM supplier of Internet software for the embedded market. With over 1,000,000 deployed embedded Web servers, Allegro has some of the world's best companies as its customers; companies like American Power Conversion, Casio, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell, Motorola, Nortel, Sony, 3Com and Xerox.
Automated Power Exchange (APX) operates Internet-based markets and voice brokerages for the buying and selling of electric power, renewable power, and related products and provides the market and scheduling technologies needed to support power system administration. A privately held company with more than 100 employees, APX has its world headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., and its European headquarters in London.
``Many of today's enterprise and electronic commerce applications rely on Certicom's SSL technology as the foundation for security,'' said Richard Depew, executive vice president of Certicom. ``We are pleased that each of these companies realizes the importance of security in leveraging the value of the Internet, and we look forward to providing them with advanced security as they continue to grow and evolve their offerings.''
About Certicom
Certicom is a leading provider of information security software and services, specializing in solutions for mobile e-business. The company's products and services are specifically designed to address the challenges imposed by a wireless data environment. Certicom's solutions incorporate its efficient encryption technology and are based on industry standards for information security that utilize public key cryptography. Certicom's products are currently licensed to more than 200 customers including Cisco Systems, Inc., Handspring Inc., Motorola, Inc., Nortel Networks, Openwave Systems, Inc., Palm, Inc., QUALCOMM, Inc., Research In Motion Ltd. and Sony International (Europe) GmbH. Certicom's headquarters and worldwide sales and marketing operations are based in the Silicon Valley in Hayward. For more information, visit Certicom's Web site at certicom.com.
Certicom and SSL Plus are trademarks or registered trademarks of Certicom Corp. All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Except for historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially. Factors that might cause a difference include, but are not limited to, those relating to the acceptance of mobile and wireless devices and the continued growth of e-commerce and m- commerce (mobile e-commerce), the increase of the demand for mutual authentication in m-commerce transactions, the acceptance of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) technology as an industry standard, the market acceptance of our principle products and sales of our customer's products, the impact of competitive products and technologies, the possibility of our products infringing patents and other intellectual property of third parties, and costs of product development. Certicom will not update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. More detailed information about potential factors that could affect Certicom's financial results is included in the documents Certicom files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities including Certicom's current Annual Report on Form 10-K.
SOURCE: Certicom Corp. |
