Organization has Grown an Additional 33 Percent Since August; SanDisk among
many Members demonstrating in OATH Pavilion
WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- OATH, the initiative for
Open AuTHentication, today celebrated the organization's second anniversary
with a surge in new members, a strong track record of achieving technical
milestones towards industry-backed standards for royalty-free open
authentication, and an interoperability demonstration of OATH solutions on
display at the OATH Pavilion #843 at the RSA Conference 2006.
OATH is a consortium of leading device, platform and application
companies, and end user customers of authentication technologies. Since last
August, OATH's membership has expanded from 46 members to more than 60, an
increase of 33 percent.
New members include: Crypto Intelligence; Deepnet Technologies; Diamelle;
DynaSig Corp.; Entrust Technologies, Inc.; Identity Engines; SanDisk; Salt
Group Pty. Ltd.; 41st Parameter; and Xelios Systems.
The organization continues to actively seek new members from security
companies and end user companies to contribute to the goal of royalty-free
open authentication technologies.
"OATH remains on track and is the major force developing industry-backed
standards for royalty free open authentication," said Colleen Kulhanek,
director of business development at SafeNet, Inc. and OATH marketing chair.
"As we continue towards achieving our technical milestones from our 2006
roadmap, we are working closely with our existing members to make sure that
OATH is the sort of organization to which they can benefit. We welcome new
members to join and participate in shaping the next generation of
authentication technologies."
"The key to the successful consumer acceptance of strong authentication is
a framework that is transparent to the consumer and built into everyday
devices such as USB drives and mobile flash cards," said Carlos Gonzalez,
senior director of USB product marketing, SanDisk. "The OATH-driven standards
provide vendors such as SanDisk an open and interoperable base for innovative
and user-friendly security solutions."
"Entrust is committed to making stronger authentication practical and
cost-effective for all applications," said Chris Voice, CTO, Entrust, an OATH
Coordinator level member. "Entrust sees OATH as essential to building large
scale, flexible authentication solutions for consumers and enterprises."
OATH members demonstrating in this year's Pavilion include:
* CertiSign
* Digital Persona
* Diversinet
* Gemplus
* Identita Technologies
* Imprivata
* nCryptone
* PassGo Technologies
* SanDisk
* SPYRUS
* Vasco
* VeriSign
About the Initiative for Open AuTHentication
The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) is the industry's leading
collaboration of device, platform and application companies, and end user
customers of authentication technologies. OATH participants hope to foster
use of strong authentication across networks, devices and applications. OATH
participants work collectively to facilitate standards and build a reference
architecture for open authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong
interoperable authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the
organization is actively seeking feedback and technology contributions from
end-user participants who share a common vision for open authentication
technology and the products that provide this important measure of security.
OATH is dedicated to helping customers reduce the cost and complexity of
deploying strong authentication within enterprises, and across the Internet.
Since its formation, OATH's membership includes security industry leaders from
token manufacturers, platform vendors, smartcard providers, and security
services companies. End user companies are joining OATH to add their voice
and ideas towards the goal of open authentication.
Some current OATH members include: ActivIdentity, Inc.; Aladdin Knowledge
Systems; AOL; ARM; Assa Abloy ITG; Authenex, Inc.; Aventail Corporation;
Axalto; BMC Software; CertiSign Digital; Checkpoint Software Technologies;
Citrix Systems; Crypto Intelligence; Deepnet Technologies; Diamelle; Digital
Persona; Discretix Technologies; Diversinet Corp.; DynaSig Corp.; Encentuate;
Entrust Technologies, Inc.; Forum Systems, Inc.; Gemplus Corp; IBM; Identita;
Identity Engines; Imprivata; iovation, Inc.; IronKey; Iteon; Juniper Networks,
Inc.; K.K. Athena Smartcard Solutions; Livo Technologies SA; nCryptone;
Passgo; Passlogix, Inc.; Phoenix Technologies Ltd.; PortWise, Inc.; RedCannon
Security, Inc.; SafLink; SafeNet, Inc.; SanDisk; Signify; Smart Card Alliance;
SPYRUS; TriCipher, Inc.; VASCO Data Security; VeriSign, Inc.; 41st Parameter;
and Xelios Systems.
To join OATH, go to: http://www.openauthentication.org/membership.asp.
Access the enrollment form by visiting:
http://www.openauthentication.org/membership_form.asp .
To learn more about OATH, e-mail info@openauthentication.org or visit
http://www.openauthentication.org .
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Madison Alexander PR, Inc.
949-231-2965
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Madison Alexander PR, Inc.
310-476-6491
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