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nCipher and Kyberpass Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide Enhanced
Security For PKI Enabled Applications
Integration of nCipher«s nShield and Kyberpass«
Trust Services Manager and Trust Services Gateway offers high performance
foundation for secure e-business
WOBURN,
MASS., October 09, 2001 – nCipher plc, (LSE:NCH),
the leading provider of enhanced security for electronic transactions,
today announced the seamless integration of its nShield™ tamper-resistant
hardware security module (HSM) with two components of the Kyberpass
e-Transaction TrustPlatform™. This combined solution makes
it easier for organizations to better secure existing and future
Web-enabled business applications that operate within a public key
infrastructure (PKI) environment. Proven interoperability between
nCipher’s nShield HSM and Kyberpass Trust Services Manager
and Trust Services Gateway helps reduce the cost and time associated
with deploying complex security applications.
The goal of this joint effort is to provide complementary components
to the security infrastructure of financial institutions, government
agencies, and other organizations responsible for the protection
of personal information and critical internal processes. A fundamental
challenge with online transactions compared with in-person meetings
revolves around the ability to establish the true identity of people
involved. The integrated solution uses digital certificates as electronic
passports to validate a person’s online identity and then authorizes
access to private information and enables the use of electronic
signatures to approve transactions. The use of digital certificates
in business applications presents an obvious point of attack, particularly
if these processes are performed on unprotected servers. The combination
of products from Kyberpass and nCipher addresses this risk and results
in a system that can be trusted by business partners and end users
alike.
“Our technical partnership with nCipher will truly enhance
our e-Transaction TrustPlatform and further differentiate it in
the market,” said Robert Lendvai, vice-president of marketing
at Kyberpass. “We ultimately selected nCipher based on its
proven ability to provide independently validated levels of security,
seamless scalability and improved transaction throughput. We are
confident that this alliance will allow us to continue to extend
our trust-enabling software while ensuring the high level of security
and performance demanded by our customers.”
Kyberpass delivers two important security platforms in support of
the new emerging web services B2B exchange model and nCipher helps
to ensure their safe operation, even in untrusted environments.
Kyberpass Trust Service Manager, an integrated XML transaction coordinator
and OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) Responder, secures
e-business transactions by validating the source of the transaction
and routing them to their respective service handlers for interaction
with organization’s mainframes and servers. Trust Service Gateway,
an XML transaction generator, applies digital signatures to all
transactions to ensure their authenticity and integrity throughout
the system. However, since B2B exchanges transcend the boundaries
of individual organizations, it is vital that security measures
reflect broadly recognized industry best practices in order to establish
mutual trust. To achieve this, Kyberpass and nCipher enable customers
to satisfy the stringent requirements of the widely recognized security
benchmark, the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1.
“We are very pleased to be working with Kyberpass as a member
of nCipher’s nAble Partner Program to ensure customers have
access to nCipher’s market leading security product line and
more importantly, can be confident of its seamless integration with
the Kyberpass e-Transaction TrustPlatform,” said Richard Moulds,
vice president of marketing, nCipher. “With their focus on
transaction-based applications, Kyberpass is addressing not only
the need for enhanced security but also the challenges surrounding
system performance and scalability. nCipher’s nShield UltraSign
HSM is a trusted security device capable of boosting the transaction
capacity of a traditional application server by a factor of 20 or
more, delivering a highly cost-effective solution to customers.”
About Kyberpass
Kyberpass delivers a new generation of e-security TrustPlatforms
for Identrus, B2B exchanges and e-government. With millions of licensed
users around the world, Kyberpass' award-winning security solutions
seamlessly allows any application to take advantage of the full
power of any Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), while automatically
implementing customers' unique security policies and dramatically
simplifying administration. Kyberpass enables the implementation
of a total security solution in a matter of days, rather than months
or years. Kyberpass supports all major PKIs and provides the most
flexible e-security infrastructure available on the market today.
For more information, visit www.kyberpass.com.
About nCipher
nCipher is the leading provider of enhanced security for electronic
transactions. nCipher’s hardware security solutions complement
off-the-shelf software products and custom security applications
by providing increased levels of security, seamless scalability
and improved transaction throughput. The integration of nCipher’s
award-winning encryption-based technology into an overarching e-security
infrastructure allows organizations to protect electronic assets
and intellectual property, as well as take steps to ensure the integrity
and privacy of customer information.
nCipher is listed on the London Stock Exchange as a TechMARK 100
company (LSE:NCH). With offices in Cambridge, UK; Boston, New York
and San Francisco, USA; Dublin, Ireland; Paris, France; and Hamburg,
Germany, nCipher serves customers and partners around the world.
For more information on nCipher, visit www.ncipher.com.
For more information, please contact:
Claire Collins
nCipher, Inc.
781.994.4000
ccollins@us.ncipher.com
Michelle Chase
Perkett PR
781.444.3866
michelle@perkettpr.com
Robert Lendvai
Kyberpass Corporation
613.727.6556 x303
rlendvai@Kyberpass.com
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