Celo Communications is a wholly owned subsidiary of GemPlus, and nCipher makes for a great partner.
Wednesday December 13, 2:16 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
Celo and nCipher Join Forces to Deliver High-Performance Access Control Solution for E-Business Web Portals
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000--
Authentication Server in Combination With Advanced Key Management and
Cryptographic Acceleration for High Security Transactions
Celo Communications, a global provider of public-key infrastructure (PKI) solutions for digital signatures, access control and network security, and nCipher (LSE:NCH), a leading developer of Internet security products for e-commerce and PKI applications, have announced that they will join forces to deliver high performance access control solutions for e-business web portals. The integrated solution enables multi-level user authentication in combination with high-speed transaction acceleration and secure key management capabilities, providing a first-rate security solution for high-traffic transaction portals.
The partnership ensures product interoperability between nCipher's hardware security module, nShield(TM) for storage and management of cryptographic keys and acceleration of SSL encrypted transactions, and the CeloCom eAccess(TM) Server for user-authentication and single sign-on capabilities. The initiative enables business web portals to verify users through ID/Password, Symmetric or Public key authentication, individually or in combination. It also allows high-speed transaction processing using nCipher's hardware accelerator capabilities, reducing costs and increasing ROI as systems scale to handle increased transaction levels.
CeloCom eAccess and nShield have already been tested and successfully integrated as part of Visa U.S.A's chip card technology platform, smart Visa, in which both companies provide key components in the best of breed security solution offered to Visa Member banks.
``Our joint solution offers a highly secure and scalable e-business environment which fully takes advantage of nCipher's sophisticated architecture for key management and transaction acceleration,'' said Sven Hammar, CEO of Celo Communications Inc. ``Our authentication server is reinforced by nCipher's ability to offload the heavy encryption-processing burden that is linked with secure transactions.''
``Strong authentication products such as CeloCom eAccess are essential to optimize the level of customer confidence when performing online transactions,'' said Rich Kosinski, president of US operations for nCipher. ``Together with Celo we deliver a high performance access control solution that is certified to the FIPS140-1 Level 3 benchmark. E-business enterprises can now manage significant security issues in a scalable and convenient manner.''
The Celo/nCipher access control solution provides e-businesses with:
Multilevel authentication (ID/PWD, Symmetric Key, Public Key)
Single Sign-On for login information
High-speed acceleration of SSL encrypted transactions
Protection and Management of Private keys
About nShield
nShield is a tamper resistant hardware security module that has been validated to the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1 Level 3, a benchmark that is frequently applied to secure systems. Combining secure key management, transaction acceleration, and tamper resistant physical hardening, nShield delivers high security, speed and scalability in a single package. nShield is well suited to a variety of security infrastructures, such as certificate authorities, online certificate validation services and numerous custom applications.
About nCipher
nCipher is a leading developer of Internet security products specifically designed for e-commerce and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) applications. nCipher's products, which incorporate both hardware and software, help its customers solve problems of information security, systems scalability and processing speed in e-commerce and PKI applications. In addition, nCipher also offers technical support and professional services. nCipher's products are particularly well suited to e-business users with high volumes of security-sensitive transactions, such as banking and financial institutions, e-retailers and service providers (ISP/ASPs) and Government agencies. nCipher is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange (Ticker: NCH), and with offices in Cambridge, UK; Boston, Mass.; New York; Paris, France; and Hamburg, Germany, serves customers and partners in many locations around the world. For more information on nCipher products and services, visit www.ncipher.com.
About CeloCom eAccess Server
The CeloCom eAccess Server is a high-performance access control server that secures web portals and PKI-enables existing legacy applications. It operates as an SSL gateway with extended PKI (public key infrastructure) capabilities that can be used by any client-server application to achieve multi-level authentication, encryption, revocation control and single sign-on capabilities for login information.
About Celo Communications
Celo Communications is a global provider of security solutions based on public-key infrastructure (PKI), the industry standard for conducting secure Internet transactions. Celo delivers strong, comprehensive enterprise security solutions in the fields of digital signatures, access control and network communications. The company's solutions integrate easily with any legacy system, providing important time-to-market advantages for its customers. Celo has customers all over the world, including major European and US banks, credit card companies, insurance companies and government organizations. Incorporated in1997, Celo has offices in the U.S., Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. Since September 2000, Celo is fully owned by Gemplus, www.gemplus.com, the world's number one provider of smart card based solutions for security, wireless and e-business applications. For more information visit www.celocom.com.
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Contact:
Celo Communications
Carl Norell, 650/938-7600
carl@celocom.com
or
PR@vantage
Theresia Qwist, 415/908-0444
theresia.qwist@pr-vantage.com
or
nCipher
Linda Johnson, 781/994-4000
ljohnson@us.ncipher.com |
