VeriSign Introduces Go Secure! for Nortel Networks
VeriSign and Nortel Networks Simplify Deployment of Secure Virtual Private Networks
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA CONFERENCE 2000, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN - news), the world's leading provider of Internet trust services, today announced VeriSign Go Secure!(SM) for Nortel Networks, a service that accelerates the way organizations deploy secure virtual private networks (VPNs). Go Secure! for Nortel Networks includes all the critical elements needed to rapidly deploy a secure VPN using VeriSign's digital certificates and Nortel Networks Contivity Extranet Switch. The solution adds to VeriSign's range of VPN services, including the recently introduced Go Secure! for Check Pointr.
Enterprises across the world are opening up their corporate networks to remote employees, branch offices, business partners and customers by implementing VPNs -- transparent, secure, and private connections across the Internet. Expected benefits include decreased IT costs, streamlined business processes, increased employee communication, and improved customer satisfaction.
In order to achieve a secure, scalable and manageable VPN, network administrators require a quick and easy-to-deploy network infrastructure based on digital certificate services. VeriSign's Go Secure! for Nortel Networks provides a fully managed digital certificate service to speed the deployment of VPNs based on Nortel Network's industry-leading switches and clients. Digital certificates act as electronic credentials to authenticate remote sites, employees, business partners and customers, thereby ensuring that only the intended recipients or network devices have access to transmitted information.
''Access to corporate IT resources from anywhere at any time is a mission-critical requirement for today's enterprise organization. VPNs offer an emerging technology solution that slashes business access costs and greatly enhances productivity,'' said Jeff Wilson, senior analyst for Infonetics Research. ''With VeriSign's Go Secure! services for VPNs, VeriSign offers a leading choice for helping enterprises implement and deploy a scalable VPN.''
Go Secure! seamlessly integrates with Contivity 2.6 VPN switches and desktop clients providing automated certificate lifecycle management services, freeing the administrator from the time-consuming burden of manually generating, distributing, renewing, and publishing digital certificates, and certificate revocation lists (CRLs). Go Secure! also simplifies certificate acquisition by using an integrated client-based enrollment process to make it easy for end-users to secure their communications and transactions.
''As the market leader in VPNs, we are providing customers with integrated support for all the major PKI standards and leading VPN implementations,'' said John Doyle, Director, IP Network Applications, Nortel Networks. ''This integration of our Contivity switches with VeriSign's Go Secure! services gives enterprises a solution that enables quick and easy deployment of a scalable site-to-site and remote-access VPN.''
''VeriSign has been working with our enterprise customers to develop these revolutionary new Go Secure! services to accelerate VPN deployment,'' said Richard Yanowitch, executive vice president of marketing for VeriSign. ''Nortel's Contivity family coupled with our Go Secure! for VPN services take the mystery out of setting up, piloting, and deploying scalable VPNs, thereby making it possible to rapidly implement a hassle-free VPN.''
Pricing & Availability
Go Secure! for Nortel Networks will be available in March 2000. Prices range from $10 a user in volume deployments to $60 a user in pilot deployments. Training courses are also available for VeriSign's PKI and VPN services.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. is the leading provider of Internet trust services -- including authentication, validation and payment -- needed by Web sites, enterprises and e-commerce service providers to conduct trusted and secure electronic commerce and communications over IP networks. VeriSign's trust services for Web sites, developers and individuals are available through www.verisign.com and through a growing number of ISPs and Web hosting companies. The company's digital certificate services for enterprises and electronic commerce service providers are available through regional account representatives, resellers, and global affiliates.
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