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Agilent Firehunter Selects Certicom?s SSL Plus as the Standard SSL Implementation for E-Commerce Service Assurance
HAYWARD, CA, June 1 /CNW/ - Certicom (Nasdaq: CERT and TSE: CIC), a leading provider of m-commerce security, today announced a license agreement with Agilent Technologies Firehunter (NYSE: A) to integrate Certicom?s market leading SSL Plus? technology with Firehunter?s suite of products, a premier family of Internet service-assurance solutions for e-business.
The SSL 3.0 protocol is the industry standard for securing electronic data, and SSL Plus is the leading commercial SSL implementation in the marketplace, providing authentication, confidentiality, and message integrity as part of any networked application. With the integration of SSL Plus into Firehunter, customers can more accurately measure and maintain the quality-of-service in their real-world secured environments.
?The integration of Firehunter and Certicom?s innovative technologies can significantly enhance the operation of e-commerce sites by ensuring that secure web services run smoothly,? said Bruce Fischer, director of product development, Firehunter business. ?We selected Certicom?s SSL Plus because it is the most effective and widely deployed technology of its kind, and complements Firehunter?s ability to continuously monitor performance of the entire infrastructure that supports e-commerce. Both ISP hosts of e-commerce sites and e-commerce vendors will benefit from this agreement between two market leaders.?
Firehunter, the industry?s popular Internet Service Assurance solution for e-business, provides service-level monitoring, reporting and automated SLA management resulting in immediate revenue gains for Service Providers around the world. Firehunter/e-Commerce provides comprehensive performance measurements that allow ISPs to make verifiable business-oriented service level assurance (SLA) agreements with e-commerce vendors. The software can track real-time SLA compliance, identify potential problems anywhere within the infrastructure, alert the appropriate people and systems and trigger other applications to correct problems. Certicom?s SSL technology offers Firehunter/e-Commerce users increased ability to accurately assess their e-business performance.
Certicom?s SSL Plus enables non-crypto engineers to add fully secure SSL functionality rapidly and with confidence to their applications or embedded systems. SSL Plus can be used to secure a wide range of network application from Web browsers to embedded applications.
?Many of today?s enterprise and electronic commerce applications rely on Certicom?s SSL technology as the foundation for security,? said Rick Dalmazzi, president of Certicom. ?Agilent Firehunter products will now be able to offer their customers the ability to provide service assurance at their most important secure sites.?
About SSL Plus
SSL Plus is the most widely deployed and trusted commercial toolkit
available for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), the dominant security protocol used
in the majority of secure networked applications and products worldwide. The
SSL Plus toolkit is used by leading companies such as Oracle, Sun
Microsystems, Lotus and Intuit to build security into a wide range of
applications and products for the Internet, intranets, and corporate networks, from traditional Web browsers and servers to home banking products, handheld devices, and legacy mainframes.
About Firehunter
The Firehunter family of service-assurance solutions for e-business
provides vital functionality for proactively managing the performance and
availability of business-critical services, including network performance
management, Web hosting and e-Commerce. Firehunter supports service-level
monitoring and reporting in addition to SLA management, resulting in assured,
verified service levels for optimal quality of service and customer
satisfaction. These powerful capabilities enable service providers to
troubleshoot rapidly, improve operational efficiency and realize immediate revenue gains.
Information on Firehunter can be found at www.firehunter.com
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc (NYSE:A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company?s plan to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. With approximately 43,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. In fiscal year 1999, the businesses comprising Agilent, then a subsidiary of HP, had net revenue of more than $8.3 billion.
Information about Agilent Technologies, Inc can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com.
About Certicom
Certicom is an encryption technology company specializing in security
solutions for mobile computing and wireless data markets, including m-commerce. Major computing and communications companies such as Palm Inc., BellSouth Wireless Data, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, and QUALCOMM incorporate Certicom?s technology into electronic commerce software, wireless messaging applications, and smart cards. Certicom is a leading source for a complete range of OEM security products and services, including cryptographic toolkits, custom implementations, and security integration services and consulting. Certicom?s worldwide sales and marketing operations are based in Hayward, California, with cryptographic research and product development in Toronto, Canada. For more information, visit Certicom?s Web site at certicom.com.
Certicom and SSL Plus are registered trademarks of Certicom Corp. All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Except for historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially. Factors that might cause a difference
include, but are not limited to, those relating to the acceptance of mobile
and wireless devices and the continued growth of e-commerce and m-commerce
(mobile e-commerce), the increase of the demand for mutual authentication in
m-commerce transactions, the acceptance of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
technology as an industry standard, the market acceptance of our principal
products and sales of our customer?s products, the impact of competitive
products and technologies, the possibility of our products infringing patents
and other intellectual property of third parties, and costs of product
development. Certicom will not update these forward-looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof. More detailed
information about potential factors that could affect Certicom?s financial
results is included in the documents Certicom files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and Canadian securities regulatory authorities including Certicom?s Registration Statement on Form F-10.
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