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US Interactive Offers Comprehensive Security Practice Through Newly Established
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TO BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:
US Interactive Offers Comprehensive Security Practice Through Newly
Established Advanced e-Engineering Group
Security Group Works With Clients to Build Privacy, Confidentiality, Identity,
Authenticity, and Non-Repudiation into Systems at Project Inception. Group
also Offers Security Assessments.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Interactive, Inc.,
(Nasdaq: USIT) a leading Internet professional services company, today
announces the formation of a specialized security practice offered under the
Advanced e-Engineering Group. This practice was designed to address the
business and technology issues associated with the convergence of IP
networking, security, and distributed applications with a focus on high
availability, performance and time-to-market compression for e-business
solutions.
The Advanced e-Engineering Group was recently formed to provide US
Interactive clients the strategic knowledge and expertise needed to leverage
leading-edge technologies and processes for e-business initiatives for
competitive advantage. Working closely with US Interactive global staff,
clients and strategic partners, the Security Team ensures that a broad
spectrum of security needs are addressed in US Interactive's e-solutions for
clients from design to operational status. The team also conducts security
assessments and certain forms of attack and penetration testing.
While US Interactive has always offered security services, the formal
practice is in response to the growing needs of clients and the Internet
industry. This practice fits into US Interactive's strategic and innovative
e-Roadmap(R) development plan fusing technology, business and marketing
services, as well as infrastructure and operational foundation into one
offering.
"As we work with clients on second- and third-generation e-business
solutions, these high performance security issues remain an important
consideration," says Eric Pulier, chairman and co-founder, US Interactive. "e-
businesses require comprehensive security, to protect privacy and secure
consumers from external and internal forces. Many security breaches are by
current and former employees against their employers, so steps need to be
taken to secure internal sites and information as well."
The Security Team currently consists of software engineering and security
technology professionals who are fully complemented by US Interactive's
worldwide professional staff.
The Security Team has worked with customers in the cable,
telecommunications, multimedia, financial services and high technology
industries. Some examples of specific security projects include: Design and
implementation of security protocols for a secure messaging company, security
assessments for large telecommunications, cable and insurance companies,
design of secure, fail-over networks, and implementation of "Virtual Private
Networks."
Most recently, the Security Team identified a serious compromise in a
major retailer's e-business due to a bug in their third party e-commerce
software. The Security Team worked with the third party software provider to
develop and rapidly deploy a solution.
According to Ajit M. Prabhu, senior vice president and chief technology
officer, US Interactive, "The best approach to security is to build it into
the system at design time. That is our approach. It's not just about credit
card numbers being stolen. Security breaches can cause loss of critical
business information or unplanned downtime through denial of service attacks.
This is a discipline that must be a key ingredient of any Internet system
deployment today."
"Security in cyberspace is not just about encryption and hackers," says
Todd J. Mitty, Ph.D., vice president and general manager. "Security extends
to privacy, confidentiality, identity, authenticity, and non-repudiation.
Improperly addressing these issues places a business' operations, assets, and
reputation at significant risk. The Security Team and Advanced e-Engineering
Group are well seasoned in developing pragmatic solutions to these complex,
business sensitive needs."
About U.S. Interactive, Inc.
US Interactive is a leading Internet professional services company that
helps the Global 2000 make business sense of the Internet by thinking,
building and running e-businesses. By combining business strategy, digital
marketing and technology skills, US Interactive builds electronic enterprises
using its proprietary e-Roadmap(R) delivery platform, IVL Methodology(SM) and
CAPTURE(SM) - an Extranet relationship management tool. US Interactive
currently has more than 350 employees in seven cities: Los Angeles,
Philadelphia, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, and Murray Hill,
NJ, and has conducted work on behalf of numerous Fortune 1000 companies
including AIG, Comcast, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Pfizer, Sprint, and
Universal. US Interactive was named the 30th fastest growing technology
company in the United States as listed in Deloitte & Touche's prestigious Fast
500 Program based on the percentage growth in revenues for the years 1994 to
1998.
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