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RSA Security and Symbian Secure Wireless Internet Access
wCommerce Industry Gets a Boost as Symbian Licenses RSA Security Technology For its Wireless Computing Platform
BEDFORD, Mass., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- An agreement was announced today between RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS - news), the most trusted name in e-security, and Symbian, a leading platform provider for Wireless Information Devices (WID), to promote the wCommerce industry, the convergence of wireless communications and eCommerce. Under the terms of this agreement, Symbian has licensed the company's RSA BSAFE® SSL-C security software for the Symbian platform. By incorporating RSA Security's technology into its platform, Symbian intends to enable the emerging wCommerce industry, allowing mobile users access to personal information and business critical data and services in a safe, robust and secure environment.
''Few can doubt the increasingly important role wireless devices of all kinds will play as a means of accessing and benefiting from the Internet and wCommerce,'' said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. ''Our work with Symbian will help provide the security and confidence users will need for these devices to be successful in the marketplace.''
The contract between the two companies licenses RSA's BSAFE® SSL-C security toolkit in source code form to Symbian, who will integrate it into its reference technology for Smartphones and Communicators and license the platform to Wireless Information Device manufacturers.
Since its launch in June 1998 Symbian has been working closely with leaders in the wireless industry to bring together content and devices to enable mobile users. This latest agreement with RSA Security continues Symbian's mission to grow the industry through a standard platform and create new opportunities for companies wishing to develop services using secure wireless Web and WAP browsing, e-mail and other wCommerce applications.
''Symbian's focus on the Wireless Information Device (WID) industry has enabled us to license the Symbian platform to the leading mobile computing and telecommunications manufacturers,'' said Juha Christensen, executive vice president, Symbian. ''This relationship with RSA Security demonstrates Symbian's commitment to innovating with leading-edge companies, providing solutions that will ensure a wide variety of Smartphones and Communicators, and assisting the rapid development of compelling content and services for these devices. Thus the mobile user can have greater confidence that the device they'll be buying will keep secure their personal information, their business critical data and other transaction- and wCommerce-based services.''
''We're seeing the rapid convergence of commerce and wireless communications in the industry,'' said Chris Cherrington, consultant, Frost & Sullivan and author of Frost & Sullivan's latest eCommerce and Mobile Datacommunications report. ''The development of this wCommerce market will however be dependent on mobile users' confidence in being able to access securely a wide variety of content and services. Frost & Sullivan is committed to helping clients understand the impact of eCommerce and the necessary transformation companies must make to be successful in the wireless economy. Symbian's agreement with RSA Security provides the platform that will encourage vendors to promote eCommerce in the wireless industry.''
About Symbian
Symbian owns, licenses, develops and supports leading software, user interfaces, application frameworks and development tools for Wireless Information Devices such as Communicators and Smartphones. Symbian aims to promote standards for the interoperability of Wireless Information Devices with wireless networks, content services, and messaging and enterprise wide solutions. With headquarters in London, Symbian has offices in Tokyo and Kanazawa, Japan; Ronneby, Sweden; Cambridge, UK and the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. Symbian is owned by Ericsson, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia and Psion. Symbian's Web site can be found at symbian.com
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(TM) 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 www.rsasecurity.com.
NOTE: BSAFE and SecurID are registered trademarks, and Keon, RSA and The Most Trusted Name in e-Security are trademarks of RSA Security Inc. Symbian and the EPOC logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symbian Ltd. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Symbian's integration of RSA Security's products into Symbian's technology and the licensing of the Symbian platform to customers. Such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are operational delays in implementation of the integration, technical difficulties, software bugs and errors, changes in customer requirements, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in RSA Security's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation RSA Security's Annual Report on Form 10K (File No. 000-25120), filed on March 31, 1999.
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