As mainstream acceptance of Internet e-business grows, vendors and forward-looking companies continue to push the envelope on how the Internet can be leveraged to reach new markets and new customers, improve supply-chain efficiencies, expand and better support business partner relationships, and respond more rapidly to changing market dynamics. Automating business processes across the extended enterprise can enable companies to operate more efficiently, increase revenues, and often gain significant competitive advantage. Companies are looking for the best way to join Extranets, electronic marketplaces and other kinds of business-to-business (B2B) environments to realize these benefits – a process now commonly referred to as business partner integration.

However, companies must be assured that they can protect their confidential data from prying eyes as it travels through the public network before wide-scale adoption of these business processes take place. Therefore, security solutions must continue to evolve in lock step with emerging technologies. Two security technologies that are evolving quickly to meet today’s business partner integration requirements are SSL-based Application VPNs for building customer and business partner Extranets and Secure XML Web Services for participation in transaction-based B2B marketplaces and business exchanges.

Learn more about the Kyberpass TrustPlatform as an enabler of Extranet VPNs.

Learn more about the Kyberpass TrustPlatform as an enabler of Secure XML Web Services.