Tons of RSAS news today, RSAS teams with Lotus, new KEON software for the desktop, simplified PKI:
News January 11, 07:30 Eastern Time
RSA SECURITY SHIPS NEW RSA KEON STANDALONE DESKTOP SOFTWARE DESIGNED TO TURN PCS INTO 'DIGITAL VAULTS' FOR PROTECTING DIGITAL CREDENTIALS and Sensitive Information
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In
conjunction with next week's RSA Conference 2000, RSA Security Inc.
(Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security, today introduced
powerful software that is designed to transform desktop and mobile PCs
into "digital vaults" that protect access to sensitive local and
network resources. The new RSA Keon(TM) Standalone Desktop employs
sophisticated public key infrastructure (PKI) technology designed to
protect digital credentials, secure e-mail and Web-based interactions
and encrypt confidential documents.
RSA Keon Standalone Desktop is designed to be flexible and easy to use,
and employs X.509 digital certificates -- locked in a secure credential
store -- that are designed to be shared among any combination of
Netscape and Microsoft e-mail and browser applications. This enhances
interoperability as well as overall security by helping to ensure that
only the authorized individual has access to the credentials. In
addition, the software is designed to allow users to easily encrypt
both local and network files by simply dragging and dropping them into
folders, and to create self-extracting encrypted files that can be sent
to non-RSA Keon Desktop users and decrypted via a shared secret.
"For this offering, we've taken the most commonly requested PKI
security functions from our RSA Keon Desktop product to create a
flexible, certificate-based desktop security solution for the millions
of PCs in use today," said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of
marketing for RSA Security. "RSA Keon Standalone Desktop offers a
powerful way for enterprises to address the security and
interoperability issues of client-side PKI without having to also
deploy and manage a centralized security server."
RSA Keon Standalone Desktop is designed to work with most
standards-based Certificate Authorities that use Web-based
registration, including the RSA Keon Certificate Server, VeriSign
OnSite and the Netscape Certificate Server.
"RSA Keon Standalone Desktop makes it easy for our data center staff
members to protect confidential customer financial data files with
proven RSA Security encryption while locking down each of their
individual PC desktops," said Chuck Jones, director of information
security for BANKFIRST, one of the nation's largest credit card
issuers, and a leading developer of products to serve consumers'
financial, Internet, and telecommunication needs.
"We are in the unique position of being both a traditional banking and
credit card issuing institution while providing high-quality Internet
access to our customers. Our ability to use the Internet while keeping
our customers' personal information secure is critical. RSA Keon
Standalone Desktop provides just the right level of desktop protection
in an easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy package that doesn't skimp on the
strength of the security," he said.
RSA Keon Standalone Desktop also includes the RSA Keon Credential
Manager, a small, easy-to-use utility that is designed to accelerate
RSA Keon Standalone Desktop deployment by creating and managing the
virtual smart cards used as containers for the secure credential store.
The Credential Manager is also designed to create and manage multiple
virtual card signers, enabling enterprises to implement group-level
access control to prevent unauthorized users from accessing PCs or
files. RSA Keon Standalone Desktop is also designed to support physical
smart cards, including the RSA SecurID(R) 3100, and a variety of smart
card readers supporting the PC/SC standard.
Availability and Pricing The RSA Keon Standalone Desktop is shipping
today and is available through RSA Security's global direct sales force
and authorized channel partners. For additional information on RSA Keon
products, please call 877-NOW-KEON or visit www.rsasecurity.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(R) two-factor authentication,
RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA Keon(TM) public key management systems.
With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use
worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years
of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and
innovative technology 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.
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News January 11, 07:30 Eastern Time
RSA SECURITY SIMPLIFIES PKI APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT RSA BSAFE(R) CERT-C BOOSTS PKI INTEROPERABILITY, CONVENIENCE AND TIME TO MARKET
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In advance of
next week's RSA Conference 2000, RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the
most trusted name in e-security, today unveiled an easier, more rapid
and safer way to create PKI-enabled applications that work with public
key infrastructures from a wide range of vendors. Based on open
standards and thoroughly tested for multi-vendor interoperability, RSA
BSAFE(R) Cert-C software is designed to simplify and accelerate open
PKI application development by providing in a single package all the
certificate processing and cryptographic software needed to build and
deploy secure applications for a variety of PKI vendor environments,
including RSA Keon(TM) and VeriSign OnSite(TM).
With the open, standards-based design of RSA BSAFE Cert-C software,
independent software vendors, enterprises and e-business service
providers are no longer locked into one vendor's PKI implementation.
The RSA BSAFE Cert-C software is designed to allow developers to
quickly create one application that can be deployed across multiple
platforms and that automatically integrates with PKI products from
numerous vendors. RSA BSAFE Cert-C software is designed to
significantly reduce the effort and in-depth expertise traditionally
required to develop PKI-enabled applications by managing all the
details of digital certificate requests, retrieval, validation, storage
and revocation that PKI applications rely on. RSA Security's
outstanding documentation, extensive sample code, easy-to-use API and
worldwide support are designed to reduce the time and cost of
developing PKI applications.
"RSA Security is changing PKI application development by making it
easier for developers to build PKI-ready applications that can be used
on all the leading PKI platforms, regardless of the manufacturer," said
Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security.
"Our efforts will also help to speed the deployment of PKI systems by
helping developers get to market faster with products that deliver the
highest levels of security, authentication and trust."
Using the RSA BSAFE Cert-C product, application developers can create,
test and deploy their solution using a single package backed by the
most trusted name in e-security. The flexible APIs help "future proof"
their solutions and insulate their applications from changes in the
underlying storage services, trust policies or PKI vendors. Developers
can even start with an outsourced PKI and later bring the PKI in house.
"Applications built using Cert-C achieve flexible interoperability
while gaining the additional advantage of native support for the
industry leading Certificate Request Syntax protocol. This standard
protocol allows applications to easily request, retrieve and revoke
certificates from VeriSign OnSite," said Richard Yanowitch, executive
vice president of marketing at VeriSign. "By integrating with VeriSign
OnSite and implementing the CRS protocol, RSA BSAFE Cert-C makes
implementing digital certificate-based applications as simple as
possible."
RSA BSAFE Cert-C software's extensible architecture is designed to let
developers add customized service providers to meet specific
requirements for processing requests, storage, revocation and
validation of digital certificates. The RSA BSAFE Cert-C product
includes a fully documented Service Provider Interface (SPI) with
complete source code examples to assist developers.
RSA BSAFE Cert-C includes the complete set of proven RSA BSAFE Crypto-C
libraries, which provide core cryptographic services to the PKI
application for tasks such as key pair generation, encryption, digital
signatures and envelopes. BSAFE Cert-C provides functions for RSA BCERT
customers wanting to switch to BSAFE Cert-C.
Availability and Pricing RSA BSAFE Cert-C software development kits are
available now for the Windows and NT platforms. Releases for the
Solaris, HP-UX and Linux operating systems will be available in March
2000 and RSA BSAFE Cert-C software can be ported to other platforms
based on customer demand. For pricing and licensing information,
contact RSA Security at 800-PUBLIKEY or 650-295-7600.
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(R) two-factor authentication,
RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA Keon(TM) public key management systems.
With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use
worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years
of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and
innovative technology 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 the
anticipated release of additional 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 delays in product development,
technical difficulties, software bugs and errors, competitive
pressures, changes in customer requirements, market acceptance of new
technologies, technological changes in the computer industry 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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News January 11, 07:30 Eastern Time
RSA SECURITY AND LOTUS TEAM TO PROVIDE INTEGRATED SECURITY FOR LOTUS NOTES AND DOMINO R5 RSA KEON SOFTWARE SUPPORTS WORLD'S MOST POPULAR Collaboration Product
BEDFORD, Mass., Jan 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- RSA Security
Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security, and Lotus
Development Corp. (NYSE: IBM) today strengthened their relationship and
extended RSA Security's public key infrastructure (PKI) technology to
Lotus Notes and Domino R5, the leading platform for information
management, messaging, collaboration and Web application development.
Building on their long-standing relationship, the two companies have
worked closely to ensure RSA Keon(TM) PKI software is compatible with
the Lotus Notes and Domino platform.
"Today's announcement is an important milestone for RSA Security as we
build on our relationship with Lotus and extend our product families to
the collaboration and e-business application markets," said Scott
Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for RSA Security. "We are
pleased to have worked with Lotus to facilitate interoperability
between our respective products and bring to market RSA Security's
enterprise PKI solution for Lotus Notes and Domino R5."
"Security is an important issue for the more than 50 million users of
Lotus Notes and Domino. Therefore, we provide our customers with a
choice of leading security solutions," said Cliff Reeves, vice
president of product management, Lotus Development Corp. "With the
interoperability between RSA Keon Software and our Notes and Domino R5
products, we can offer customers additional flexibility to meet their
security needs."
With RSA Keon software, enterprises are now able to employ a single,
standards-based approach that includes security for Lotus Notes and
Lotus Domino across their heterogeneous environment. RSA Keon software
is designed to complement the native security features of Lotus Notes,
reducing the potential danger of costly data sabotage and theft through
a combination of secure, automated single sign-on; strong public-key
user authentication; session encryption for all Notes applications; and
centralized audit, reporting and revocation of application access
activity. In addition, RSA Keon software is designed to deliver a Lotus
Notes and Lotus Domino security solution that simplifies security
management by eliminating the need for enterprises to manage multiple
islands of security.
The two companies also announced the creation of a special Lotus Notes
and Domino security presentation at the upcoming RSA Conference 2000 to
be held in San Jose, Calif., from January 16 to 20. In addition, RSA
Security has joined the Lotus Business Partners' program, and Lotus has
become a member of the RSA Secured strategic partner program.
About RSA Keon Software RSA Keon software is a family of interoperable,
standards-based PKI products designed to manage digital certificates
and provide an environment for authenticated, private and legally
binding electronic communications and transactions. Whether deployed as
a robust, standalone certificate authority or a comprehensive PKI
solution, RSA Keon software is designed to provide a common foundation
for securing Internet and e-business applications.
About Lotus Development Corp. Lotus Development Corporation, founded in
1982, is a subsidiary of IBM Corporation. Lotus sets the standard for
truly innovative software products and services that reflect the
company's unique understanding of the new ways in which individuals and
businesses must work together to achieve success. Lotus is redefining
the concept of conducting business through practical knowledge
management, e-business and other groundbreaking ways of connecting the
world's ideas, thinkers, buyers, sellers and communities via the
Internet. Lotus markets its products in more than 80 countries
worldwide through direct and extensive Business Partner channels. The
company also provides numerous professional consulting, support and
education services through the Lotus Professional Services
organization.
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(R) two-factor authentication,
RSA BSAFE(R) encryption and RSA Keon(TM) public key management systems.
With nearly a half billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use
worldwide, more than six million RSA SecurID users and almost 20 years
of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and
innovative technology 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: Lotus and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks and Domino is a
trademark of Lotus Development Corporation. IBM is a registered
trademark of IBM Corp. 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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