A New Cost-Effective Option for Strong Security Infrastructure
In Business-to-Business Internet Commerce and PKI Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA DATA SECURITY CONFERENCE, Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ --
Celo Communications (Booth 1322), a global provider of security products for
Internet commerce and communications, and VASCO Data Security International,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VDSI.OB; Booths 435 and 1211), a leading provider of
strong authentication solutions, today gave businesses and government agencies
worldwide new options beyond smart cards or static passwords for protecting
their e-business applications. The companies announced interoperability
between Celo's e-business security product CeloCom Web, and VASCO's
Digipass(TM) family of authentication devices, creating a strong security
infrastructure ideal for business-to-business e-commerce.
The interoperability with CeloCom Web enhances the security of public key
infrastructure (PKI) applications and provides VASCO's authentication tokens
with digital signing abilities for non-repudiation.
"We're pleased to be an integral part of the CeloCom Web security
infrastructure for PKI applications," said Jan Valcke, General Manager of
VASCO's IdentiSoft division, which oversees the company's authentication
technologies worldwide. "Integration into CeloCom Web means that Digipass
authentication devices now offer organizations a portable and cost-effective
means of securing their PKI applications and protecting their private keys,
without requiring a smart card and reader."
VASCO's advanced authentication devices provide secure access to
organizations' data across all networks including the Internet, as simply and
economically as possible. Today VASCO has over three million authentication
devices deployed worldwide.
"The support of VASCO tokens within the Celo PKI environment opens up a
whole new realm of possibilities for the millions of VASCO users in the
market," said Sven Hammar, CEO of Celo Communications Inc. "This approach
will significantly minimize the cost of entry into e-commerce and e-business
for organizations already deploying tokens, and it represents a major
development in addressing the concerns related to the storage of private keys
on disk."
CeloCom Web is a security tool for secure Internet Commerce based on
certificate authentication and digital signing. It is fully based on public
key infrastructure (PKI), the industry standard for security, and comes with a
digital signing plug-in that can be used instantly with any browser.
About Celo
Celo Communications is a leading provider of digital signature solutions,
based on X.509 certificates and SSL. Celo's product suite uses
public-key-infrastructure (PKI), the industry standard for conducting secure
Internet transactions. Celo's security solutions integrate easily with legacy
systems, providing important time-to-market advantages for its customers.
Celo's customers include leading European and American banks, insurance
companies, e-commerce companies, the Swedish national lottery, the Dutch
government's tax network, NATO military networks and one of the largest German
Internet service providers. Celo has strategic partnerships with VeriSign,
Baltimore Technologies, DST, GlobalSign, Xcert, RSA Security and IBM, to name
few.
Incorporated in October 1997, Celo Communications has offices in the U.S.,
Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany. For more information visit our
Web site at http://www.celocom.com, or contact sales@celocom.com.
About VASCO's IdentiSoft Division
VASCO's IdentiSoft division develops, markets, and sells advanced
authentication technologies worldwide. The company's family of Digipass
tokens and smart cards have become the authentication solution of choice for
protecting access to transactions and data at more than 130 financial
institutions and hundreds of corporations and government agencies worldwide.
With more than three million Digipass sold in more than 50 countries VASCO is
now the number one provider of strong authentication solutions to the banking
industry, and number two overall. For more information, visit http://www.vasco.com.
SOURCE Celo Communications, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.celocom.com
CONTACT:
Patrick Corman of Corman Communications,
650-326-9648, or patrick@cormancom.com, for Celo Communications,
Inc.
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