RSAS picks up HP, they already have GE and CPQ among others:
Wednesday January 5, 7:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: RSA Security, Inc.
HP Signs Agreement With RSA Security for Its E-Services Solutions
Far-Reaching Contract Gives HP Broad Access to RSA Security Encryption Technology
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS - news), the most trusted name in e-security, today announced that the company has signed a licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP - news) that gives all HP divisions broad access to RSA Security's entire family of industry-leading data encryption technologies and products. The contract enables all HP divisions to streamline the process of bringing their e-commerce and other Internet-related products to market by making it faster and easier for them to license RSA Security's products.
The new master licensing agreement strengthens and expands the ties between the two companies, broadening HP's original license with RSA Security and speeding the development process for all HP e-commerce products. The agreement effectively provides HP with a single source for its core security technology across its product lines, helping to ensure interoperability among its platforms, ranging from PCs, to servers to back-end systems.
''Security is a prerequisite for e-services, and we are pleased to be working with RSA because they are the leaders in public-key cryptography,'' said Roberto Medrano, general manager of HP's Internet Security Division. ''The global availability of RSA Security's strong encryption fits well with HP's global presence, enabling us to build one version of our products to serve all our customers around the world.''
''We're extremely pleased by HP's renewed and expanded relationship with RSA,'' said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. ''RSA Security's core public-key technologies can help HP deliver secure solutions as the company pursues a variety of e-commerce opportunities.''
Several HP business units have already licensed millions of dollars worth of RSA Security products as a result of this agreement, including RSA BSAFE® SSL-J for HP Verifone's Internet-based electronic payment solutions; RSA BSAFE SSL-C for HP's secure remote management software products; RSA BSAFE Crypto-C and RSA BCERT for HP's IPsec/9000 product. In addition, RSA BSAFE Crypto-C, RSA BCERT and RSA BSAFE SSL-C for the HP-UX operating system as well as many of HP's Internet-related products, including Web QoS, SpeedCard cryptographic accelerator, VirtualVault trusted Web server and DomainGuard Web authorization manager.
About BSAFE
The RSA BSAFE Crypto-C product is one of the world's most popular and most trusted cryptography components. Fast, and with a wide range of data encryption and signing algorithms, RSA Security's easy-to-use security components are designed to allow developers to integrate state-of-the-art privacy and authentication features into most applications.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services.
HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments.
HP has 83,200 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at hp.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. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to HP's use of RSA Security's products in connection with HP's products. 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.
SOURCE: RSA Security, Inc.
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