Friday, January 28, 2005

RSA Security Earnings > RSA Security Reports Record Revenue

The company posted $83.2 million in revenue for its fourth-quarter ended Dec. 31, up from $70.7 million reported in the year-ago period. See InformationWeek for more details.

1/28/2005 10:21:00 AM  

Thursday, January 27, 2005

BMC to enhance offerings

Enterprise management solutions company, BMC Software, says it will soon release an integrated suite of identity management solutions.The announcement follows the completion of BMC's 100% acquisition of Calendra, a Paris-based private company, for $33 million.

1/27/2005 10:48:00 AM  

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

A Google browser is just the first step

Do you think Google would be interested in IAM? Anyways, just thought its an interesting reading.

1/26/2005 03:04:00 PM  

CA quarter boosted by Netegrity

Computer Associates International Inc has reported a bumper third fiscal quarter, exceeding guidance on sales while doubling net income.

1/26/2005 09:34:00 AM  

Bioscrypt Receives Biometric Access Control Technology Leadership Award

Bioscrypt Inc. (TSX: BYT), a leading provider of identity verification technology, announced today that Frost & Sullivan has identified Bioscrypt as the recipient of the 2005 Biometric Access Control Technology Leadership of the Year Award.

1/26/2005 09:33:00 AM  

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

CAs Swainson indicates products and acquisition strategy

Computer Associates International Inc incoming chief John Swainson has shuffled two senior CA team members in his first indication of corporate direction. See details here.

1/25/2005 10:32:00 AM  

Security slips out of CIO portfolios

Interesting article highlighting the fact that security is not a technology issue, but a business issue.

1/25/2005 10:27:00 AM  

Monday, January 24, 2005

CA's eTrust SiteMinder Approved for Use by U.S. Government Agencies

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA) today announced that eTrust SiteMinder 6.0 has been approved by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) under its E-Gov E-Authentication Initiative, which is committed to delivering open standards-based authentication solutions to U.S. government agencies.

1/24/2005 11:25:00 AM  

Sun Launches Identity Auditor System

Sun Microsystems Inc. has unveiled Identity Auditor, software that tracks user identities and monitors access privileges to enterprise applications such as enterprise-resource-planning and financial-accounting systems.

1/24/2005 11:23:00 AM  

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Reuters strengthens instant messaging to meet compliance guidelines

Reuters is to use a new instant messaging management solution from IMLogic to allow its financial customers to satisfy compliance guidelines set by market regulators. Details here.

1/20/2005 09:03:00 AM  

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Silanis awarded U.S. Army licence

Silanis Technology, an automator of business approval processes, has announced that its digital signature and approval management systems have been selected by the US Army.

1/19/2005 03:13:00 PM  

Monday, January 17, 2005

With high-cost `smart cards,' military targets tighter security

About 4 million ``smart cards'' that run on software from a Silicon Valley company -- have been issued to every member of the U.S. armed forces and civilian workers in the Department of Defense to use as high-tech ID cards. See here for more details.

1/17/2005 01:02:00 PM  

IPLocks Selected to Demonstrate at DEMO@15

IPLocks(TM), an innovative provider of database vulnerability assessment, continuous risk monitoring and non-repudiation audit analysis systems, today announced it has been selected to participate in DEMO@15, February 13 - 15, 2005, at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ. Now in its 15th year, this invitation-only event has earned a reputation for identifying products and services that will transform the high-tech industry.

1/17/2005 01:00:00 PM  

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Siemens Business Services Signs Deal to Offer VeriSign Intelligence and Control(SM) Services to Turkish Enterprises

VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, and Siemens Business Services (SBS) Turkey, today announced they have signed an affiliate agreement that will enable SBS to provide VeriSign Intelligence and Control(SM) Services to enterprises in Turkey.

1/13/2005 01:34:00 PM  

Wave Systems and Operational Research Consultants Collaborate to Address Government Security Markets

Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX) and Operational Research Consultants, Inc. (ORC), a wholly owned subsidiary of WidePoint Corporation (OTC BB: WDPT), announced today a strategic partnership to jointly market trusted computing and certified credentialing to provide identity management solutions to federal, state and local governments.

1/13/2005 01:32:00 PM  

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Bull Evidian and Oracle Strengthens Partnership on Identity and Access Management

Bull Evidian, a leading secure management software vendor announced today that it is partnering with Oracle to provide enhanced solutions and additional benefits to their clients in the growing Identity and Access Management (IAM) market.

1/12/2005 12:48:00 PM  

Ping Identity Certifies DataPower SAML Identity Implementation

DataPower announced that its most widely deployed DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway successfully passed Ping Identity's industry-leading Conformance and Security Testing Service for SAML 1.1.

1/12/2005 12:44:00 PM  

VeriSign Presented the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the Digital Certificate Market

For continually innovating solutions to keep pace with market changes and implementing superior strategies to become the market leader, VeriSign, Inc., is presented with the 2004 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award. VeriSign has leveraged its keen understanding of end user requirements in the digital certificate market to outdo competitors such as Entrust Technologies and RSA Security.

1/12/2005 12:41:00 PM  

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Entrust Authority(TM) Security Manager 7.0 Achieves Common Criteria EAL 4+ Certification

Entrust, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU), a world-leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, today
announced that the foundation of the Entrust Authority(TM) product portfolio, Entrust Authority(TM) Security Manager 7.0, has achieved Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification.

1/11/2005 05:10:00 PM  

Nokia Announces IP VPN Suite For Mobile Security

Nokia today announced a suite of Internet protocol security (IPSec) virtual private network (VPN)-based solutions that offer secure remote access to corporate networks from mobile devices and remote locations. The VPN suite includes four new IP VPN gateway systems, a mobile VPN client, and comprehensive management software.

1/11/2005 05:09:00 PM  

Monday, January 10, 2005

BMC acquires Calendra

BMC Software, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise management solutions, today announced its intent to acquire privately held Calendra, the leading provider of Web-based business-oriented identity management solutions.

1/10/2005 02:24:00 PM  

The WISeKey-Microsoft Trust Platform in the Asia Pacific Region

With widespread adoption of the new legal framework guaranteeing Asia Pacific (APAC)-wide recognition of electronic signatures, Microsoft Corporation and WISeKey today announced an unprecedented growth in the deployment of PKI (public key infrastructure framework), a jointly developed digital signature solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, in APAC.

1/10/2005 02:22:00 PM  

Friday, January 07, 2005

SAFLINK provides technology for "doorway to desktop" authentication

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense's Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access.

1/07/2005 03:25:00 PM  

IBM buys in identity management software

IBM today announced the acquisition of SRD, a privately held developer of identity resolution software based in Las Vegas.

1/07/2005 03:23:00 PM  

Funk Software Offers Free 'Odyssey(R) Certificate Authority'

The Cambridge, Massachusetts company is offering its CA for easy configuration of RADIUS Servers. More details http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-04-2005/0002767165&EDATE=.

1/07/2005 03:20:00 PM  

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Liberty Alliance Project Announces New Board President

Intel's George Goodman is the new Board President of Liberty Alliance. News here.

1/05/2005 01:36:00 PM  

Zix Corporation To Present Sessions On e-Prescribing and PHI Protection At HIMSS

Would be interested in knowing why PKI failed. Check BusinessWire for other sessions.

1/05/2005 01:33:00 PM  

Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Universities and Identity Management

Interesting article on Universities adopting several different kinds of Identity Management Solutions. See here for more.

1/04/2005 10:03:00 AM  

Wolters Kluwer Selects RSA for Online Services

Wolters Kluwer, the world's leading publisher has selected RSA for Identity Management solutions. More story is available here.

1/04/2005 09:55:00 AM  

Monday, January 03, 2005

CISO Keeps His Eyes on the Road

An interview with Eric Litt, CISO of GM Corp.

1/03/2005 11:55:00 AM  

SAP Uses Aruba Grid Products To Secure Wired And Mobile Networks

SAP can now centralize critical security functions like encryption, authentication, identity management, and policy-based access controls within a single, high performance system. This enables administrators to grant selective access to users who may be collaborating over one central network. See here for more.

1/03/2005 11:52:00 AM  

Focus On Risk

InformationWeek's article on 2005 outlook on how companies would leverage their investments in Security. The focus is on risk.

1/03/2005 12:15:00 AM