Equifax Secure Selects Alliance PKI Solution to Deliver Digital Certificates
RSA CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sun-Netscape
Alliance (Alliance) today announced that more than 20 million end-user
iPlanet(TM) Certificate Management System(TM) (CMS) licenses have been sold to
customers, representing significant marketplace momentum. Through research of
its growing list of successful commercial deployments, the Alliance has
established that businesses are choosing CMS for its industry leading
scalability and high performance. In related news, Equifax Secure, Inc., a
unit of Equifax, Inc. (NYSE: EFX), released a statement today that it will use
CMS to deliver digital certificates to NYBOR.com, an Internet and Intranet
solutions provider specializing in the healthcare industry.
"The explosion of e-commerce should continue to drive the development of
PKI-enabled applications and deployment of digital certificates in the next
two years. As a result, secure transactions, traditionally completed with
hand-written signatures, will move to electronic documents requiring digital
signatures," said Claire Hough, Vice President and General Manager of
Directory and Security Products for the Alliance. "Equifax Secure's global
reach and vision perfectly complement our goal of providing a scalable,
mission critical and high-performance solution for enabling e-commerce
services and applications."
Using the CMS infrastructure, Equifax Secure will issue Organizational
Certificates on behalf of NYBOR.com's corporate customers who have purchased
Intershield(TM), NYBOR.com's enterprise-level security tool for managing
end-user connectivity to ecrypt systems including certificates, access levels
and logging. For Equifax Secure, using CMS to provide a range of e-commerce
solutions, including online identity authentication and digital credentialing
services is an ideal solution for companies wanting to rapidly deploy
high-assurance online commerce applications for financial services, retail,
credit card, information technology and healthcare industries.
"We chose the Sun-Netscape Alliance due to their proven track record and
market leadership in providing an integrated user management platform to
enable e-commerce services including innovative online identity authentication
and digital certificates," said Jeff Johnson, general manager of Equifax
Secure. "We relied on CMS to build a high performance system that will scale
to meet our future requirements. The Alliance's CMS solution minimized the
cost and complexity of deployment and fully supported our time-to-market
goals."
As part of the continuing commitment to innovation, the Alliance also
announces the release of iPlanet Certificate Management System 4.2 (TM) with
new usability enhancements and improvements in third party certificate
authority interoperability. CMS 4.2 includes major improvements in the
usability through support of a new client module called Personal Security
Module (PSM). PSM is a client security module which improves and simplifies
end-user certificate lifecycle management, including issuance, selection and
use, status check, renewal, and revocation. PSM will be available free of
charge, Q1 2000, for use with the Netscape Communicator 4.7 edition. To
increase the adoption of certificate-enabled applications, CMS is fully tested
and qualified with RSA Security KEON 5.0 for interoperability.
This latest version, available as part of the complete Unified User
Management Suite solution, will provide the flexibility to implement stronger
security without changing existing business processes and policies. The suite
of products includes iPlanet Directory Server(TM), iPlanet Certificate
Management System(TM), iPlanet Meta-Directory(TM), iPlanet Delegated Admin(TM)
and Netegrity Policy Server(TM).
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) formed the
Sun-Netscape Alliance to provide easy-to-deploy, comprehensive enterprise and
e-commerce solutions to business partners and other companies competing in
today's Net economy. The Alliance product portfolio provides customers with
the industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure software and a family
of production-ready e-commerce applications. The products are offered on the
industry's most widely available product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM,
Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows and Sun. The Alliance software product portfolio
includes messaging and calendar, collaboration, Web, application, directory
and certificate servers. The Alliance also offers a family of production-ready
applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange, procurement, selling
and billing.
About America Online, Inc.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc., based in Dulles, Virginia, is the
world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and
e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates two worldwide Internet
services: America Online, with more than 18 million members, and CompuServe,
with approximately 2 million members; several leading Internet brands
including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter and AOL.COM
portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers. Through its
strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the company develops and offers
easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for companies
operating in the Net economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- The Network Is The
Computer(TM) -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to ".com" their businesses.
With $12.4 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170
countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com.
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