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To: Land Shark who wrote (763)	6/14/1999 8:57:00 PM
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More news on the transaction sector: Companies Offer Flexible E-Biz Security (06/14/99, 5:49 p.m. ET) By Rutrell Yasin, InternetWeek What does it take to build a truly secure online business? Many enterprise managers will answer that it takes a flexible infrastructure that can be extended to meet changing business needs. On Monday, two security vendors moved to give companies the necessary building blocks to speed up deployment of secure e-businesses. GTE CyberTrust, a supplier of PKI technology, launched a set of products and services to assist IT managers in implementing secure extranets. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet includes a certification authority Web server, directory, database, firewall, access control, and managed services. Meanwhile, Securant Technologies unveiled an updated version of its access management software that lets IT staff centrally manage security services for Web and network-based applications. ClearTrust SecureControl 3.5 provides rules-based access control, policy assessment, and PKI integration in a single console. CyberTrust's digital certificate and Web hosting services enable Ruesch International to focus on its core business of providing international payment solutions for companies. The financial services company conducts high volumes of business-to-business transactions over its RueschLINK extranet, said Ronald Szoc, vice president for technology at Ruesch. "If a food importer, for example, imports [products] from Belgium and needs to pay the supplier in francs or the eurodollar, the company would go through us [to make payments]," Szoc said. Companies can make arrangements for future payments or execute a payment for delivering next day, he added. By using CyberTrust's Web-Advantage hosting service, Ruesch can supply clients with digital certificates that enable them to securely access Ruesch's database for online transactions, Szoc said. Ruesch opted for GTE CyberTrust because of its breadth of services. Besides the certificate and Web hosting services, Ruesch also uses GTE's managed VPN and firewall services. A central component of CyberTrust's approach is the Secure Extranet Method, which details the process for deploying extranets, said Joyce Fai, CyberTrust's product line manager. The method focuses on needs assessments and vulnerability testing, design, security policies, and application integration, she said. Pricing for Secure Extranet varies depending on customer implementation. Securant Technologies is providing a unified security infrastructure for both Web and enterprise applications. SecureControl, the first product in the ClearTrust suite, lets IT managers centrally control user access to extranets, intranets, and Internet-based applications, said Eric Olden, Securant's chief technology officer. The product uses Smart Rules technology to automate the administration of security policy across enterprises. Improved authentication rules give administrators more control over which application resources users can access. IT managers are now able to specify permission rights at the server, directory, application, and Web page levels. The software also supports multiple authentication methods, including passwords, digital certificates, and tokens all within the same session. In addition, version 3.5 provides certificate revocation list checking and integration with Entrust Direct PKI technology. The software runs on Unix and Windows NT. Pricing starts at $20 per user