::PepperTech:: Security Management News Blog: 12/01/2004

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Authenex Offers Combined Authentication Features Token and Server Solution for Network Security

Authenex, a leading provider of affordable and strong authenticated e-security applications, today announced the release of its latest version of ASAS. This latest release establishes the first combined features token and server solution allowing multi-functional authentication for users via USB based challenge-response or One-Time Password (OTP).

Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Novell Launches OES Beta

Novell announces the beta release of Open Enterprise Server (OES) platform, a blend of the company's proprietary networking software and open source technology that the company said promises to offer businesses greater flexibility with I.T. systems.

Novell plans to ship the new product beginning early next year. Details on CIO Today.

Monday, December 27, 2004

Biometric Sensors Keep Finger on Security

Interesting article, but how do I authenticate when I lose the card. I am sure no one will be able to use it, but the PKI aspect of the product would require me to prove identity to the issuer. Any thoughts?

Thursday, December 23, 2004

Unisys predictions for 2005

Sunil Misra and Patrick O'Kane of Unisys Security list out the issues enterprises face in 2005. See here for more.

OMB mandates agency use of approved PKI providers

The Office of Management and Budget is requiring agencies to use one of the three approved shared service providers for their PKI services. The providers are the Agriculture Department's National Finance Center, Verisign Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., and Betrusted U.S. Inc. of New York. To qualify as a shared-service provider, vendors or agencies must:
* Operate their certification authorities under the certificate policy developed and controlled by the federal government
* Demonstrate compliance with this policy annually with a third-party audit
* Receive approval from the General Services Administration
* Comply with existing security laws, including certification and accreditation

See details here.

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Tumbleweed Named Finalist for Two Email Security Awards by SC Magazine

Tumbleweed's two products make it to the final in the Best Anti-Spam and Content Filtering Solution global awards. See SC for all news.

Top 5 privacy issues for 2005 - Computerworld

Larry Ponemon talks about the leading issues in Privacy.

Monday, December 20, 2004

Whats ahead for Identity Management in '05?

Provisioning, single sign-on and strong authentication will be coming of age, says Jonathan Penn. See here for more on the Forrester piece.

Entrust Delivers Seamless Strong Security for IBM WebSphere

Entrust announced the solution that speeds up the deployment of strong authentication, digital signatures, and encryption. More details available here.

Thursday, December 16, 2004

SafeNet Datakey acquisition final

Datakey announced the completion of its acquisition by SafeNet.

Symantec and Veritas to merge in a $13.5B

Symantec and Veritas have announced a $13.5B M&A deal. Details on Symantec's site.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

RosettaNet chooses Identrus for Digital Certificates

RosettaNet announced the availability of digital certificates to its users through a partnership with Identrus. More details on RosettaNet website.

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Veridicom announces Eurpoean Patent for Trusted Sensors

Veridicom Intl' Co. announced that the European Patent Office intends to grant Veridicom a European patent for its biometric authentication product. More details here.

Commer Bank selects RSA for Secure and Remote Access Solutions

RSA Security announced that Commerce Bank, a regional Financial Institution will be using RSA's authentication products to enable employee productivity and efficiency, compliance with regulations, and security for business customers. PRNewswire has more details.

Monday, December 13, 2004

Wellspan selects Courion for Provisioning

BusinessWire reports that Wellspan has selected Courion's provisioning product for achieving HIPAA compliance. More details here.

RouteOne named to InfoWorld 100

DataPower, the original creator and leading provider of intelligent XML-Aware Network (XAN) infrastructure, today announced that RouteOne LLC has been named to the InfoWorld 100 for its Credit Application Management System (CAMS) based on RouteOne's innovative and highly secure Web service architecture enabled by DataPower's XS40 XML Security Gateway. RouteOne is a joint venture formed by DaimlerChrysler Services, Ford Motor Credit Company, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Toyota Financial Services to redefine and improve the credit application process for automobile dealers and their customers.

Red Herring Selects Thor Technologies for Innovators Award

Thor Technologies, Inc., the secure enterprise provisioning expert, today announced that the editors of Red Herring, the renowned media company and Silicon Valley institution whose mission is to cover innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity, has selected Thor Technologies as one of its Red Herring Top 100 Innovators award winners. Details here.

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Enterprises: History of sorts

David Watson writes this article from New Zealand on Oracle, PeopleSoft, CA, etc.

Friday, December 10, 2004

Security action in Baltic Countries

It is very amazing to see more IT action in the Baltic countries namely Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. This news piece talks about Lithuanian PS using e-documents.

Thursday, December 09, 2004

A developer's presentation from Sun Microsystems on SSO and Federation

Here is a presentation from a friend of mine at Sun Microsystems - Pat Patterson is a Tech Martketing Manager for Sun Microsystems' Access Manager.

Anti-Asterisk campaign for password security

An article on how the asterisk-based "encryption" is gaining wide-spread criticism, and how Microsoft is in the middle of it all.

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Revenge of the PKI Nerds

Interesting article. Check www.csoonline.com.

Monday, December 06, 2004

The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company deploys Oblix COREid

Oblix, a leading developer of identity-based security solutions, today announced that The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, the nation's second oldest mutual life insurer, has deployed the Oblix COREid(R) Identity Management and Access Control solution for user authentication and authorization. Details here.

Thursday, December 02, 2004

Cybertrust bags ePassport deal

Cybertrust (formerly Betrusted) announced that it has bagged the Australian ePassport pilot deal. According to Cybertrust, the Australian ePassport was among the first in the world to comply with the standards set by the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) which sets standards for travel documents. Details here.

PKWare to present at Infosecurity Conference

The maker of ZIP utilities, PKWare, will be presenting its security products at the Infosecurity Conference in New York. See here for details about the products and conference.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Identity Management software is the third killer app according to InformationWeek

A poll conducted by InformationWeek for the next killer software application places Identity Management in 3rd place.

Computer Associates named top vendor in Security and Vulnerability Assessment Software

CA was named the top vendor of security and vulnerability assessment software. This follows them being name the top identity and access management company.

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