Industry Leaders Applaud Debut of RSA Security
Check Point, Compaq, Novell and Sun Recognize RSA Security's Expertise, Leadership and Global Reach as Enabler for e-Business
September 13, 1999 12:07 AM Eastern Time
BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The debut of RSA Security Inc., the integration of RSA Data Security and Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. SDTI , was applauded by industry leaders engaged in e-business. Citing RSA Security's technical expertise, leadership and global reach, these industry leaders support the efforts of the company to drive the market for software components that secure electronic data.
RSA Security's new corporate name and identity conclude an integration strategy to extend the company's leadership in the e-security market. The new name reflects the unified expertise and strategic direction of its founding organizations, and its commitment to remaining a leader of the e-security industry. (See today's announcement, "Announcing RSA Security Inc.")
"We have strong ongoing partnerships with both RSA and Security Dynamics and are excited by today's announcement," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies CHKP . "We look forward to a continued strong partnership with RSA Security that provides our joint customers with best-of-breed products with the highest interoperability and integration."
"RSA Security is both a pioneer -- they've been a clear leader in public key infrastructure dialog and standards bodies -- and a critical business and technology partner," said Bill Ferguson, marketing director at Compaq's Atalla Security Products. "RSA Security has helped us to evolve our security solutions so that we are not only interoperable between Compaq's own products, but are interoperable between all products and solutions across the industry."
"As one of the world's leading users of RSA Security public-key cryptography and strong authentication technology, Novell is pleased to see the company emerge as a unified force in the e-security industry," said Chris Stone, senior vice president of corporate strategy and development of Novell. "By building RSA security technologies on top of Novell's industry-leading directory platform -- NDS -- customers, through the directory, will now have a centrally managed security solution."
"Today's announcement should help to enhance enterprise trust in security solutions that are necessary for e-commerce, as well as for businesses to succeed in the race to dot-com the enterprise," said Roland Jones, senior product manager for Java platform security at Sun Microsystems. "We support RSA Security's renewed efforts in helping to create the kind of security infrastructure from which everyone will benefit."
About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., The Most Trusted Name in e-Security(TM), helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-businesses through its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA BSAFE encryption and RSA Keon public key management systems. As the global integration of Security Dynamics and RSA Data Security, RSA Security has the proven leadership, innovative technology and systems experience to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy. RSA Security can be reached at rsasecurity.com .
Note: RSA Security will begin trading on the Nasdaq National Market under the ticker symbol RSAS when the market opens on Tuesday, September 14, 1999.
BSAFE and SecurID are registered trademarks, and Keon, RSA and The Most Trusted Name in e-Security are trademarks of RSA Security Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
SOURCE RSA Security Inc.
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