Strategic Agreement Combines Industry's Leading SSL Acceleration Solution With
New Provider of Real-Time Application Protection
IRVINE, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., RSA Conference 2002, Feb. 20
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rainbow eSecurity, a
Rainbow Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNBO) company and a leading solutions
provider of digital content and transaction security, and Stratum8 Networks,
Inc., a developer of Internet security solutions, today announced their joint
marketing and technology agreement, which integrates Rainbow's CryptoSwift
eCommerce acceleration solutions into Stratum8's new Application Protection
System (APS) software solution. This integrated solution accelerates SSL
transactions and analyzes the interaction between the Web server and browser
to protect users against HTML commands issued with malicious intent, including
buffer overruns, cookie tampering, session hijacking and worms.
According to Gartner Group, as many as 75 percent of malicious attacks
occur at the application level. Unlike intrusion detection and virus scanning
solutions that can only analyze against known signatures after an intrusion
has occurred, the Rainbow and Stratum8 solution blocks malicious activity from
ever reaching the Web servers and corrupting underlying corporate data.
Through Stratum8's APS device, a real-time analysis of user activity blocks
malicious activity on first and subsequent attacks. Rainbow's CryptoSwift
allows the device to process SSL-encrypted transactions at line speed with
virtually no latency for the end user, a capability required by many large
eCommerce sites processing large numbers of encrypted transactions.
"By integrating CryptoSwift with a commerce version of our APS, we are
able to offer a swift, secure solution for those customers that require SSL
sessions be terminated at the APS device," said Abhishek Chauhan, chief
technology officer for Stratum8 Networks. "In this scenario, the data is
re-encrypted prior to secure transmission to the Web server for higher
performance, higher security, and to conform to financial and healthcare
security requirements."
"Our relationship with Stratum8 reinforces our strategy to provide
innovative security solutions at all layers of the IT infrastructure," said
Shawn Abbott, president, Rainbow eSecurity. "The combination of APS software
and CryptoSwift provides users with powerful Web application security, while
maintaining a high level of Web server performance, in a single package that
can be installed quickly."
The new APS Commerce solutions featuring CryptoSwift will be available in
Q2 of 2002.
About CryptoSwift
Rainbow's eCommerce performance and security acceleration technology is
the industry's leading solution for cryptographic acceleration, providing fast
and secure transactions over the Internet while dramatically reducing Web
server and network appliance response time. The CryptoSwift family of
eCommerce acceleration solutions accelerates the public-key cryptographic
functions of popular security protocols such as SSL/TLS, WAP/WTLS, S/MIME,
IKE/IPSec and others. SSL acceleration technology was first developed by
Rainbow and improves server response time for secure connections by freeing
the Web servers and network appliances to perform other tasks, especially
during peak load and heavy traffic periods. Since 1997, Rainbow's CryptoSwift
is the SSL acceleration solution of choice for fast, secure online
transactions for B2B and B2C environments of all types and sizes.
CryptoSwift has won more major industry awards for excellence than any
other SSL acceleration solution, including a prestigious "Well-Connected
Award" for best SSL accelerator and "Editor's Choice Award" for best internal
SSL accelerator from Network Computing, a "Blue Ribbon Award" from Network
World as the industry's top cryptographic accelerator and two American
Electronics Association (AEA) High Tech Awards for "Innovative
Product/Technology" in 2000 and 2001. In addition, Rainbow's NetSwift2012
appliance for SSL/WTLS (wired/wireless) security acceleration was a 2001
Editor's Choice from Communications News.
About Stratum8
Stratum8 Networks is a developer of security infrastructure solutions to
protect enterprise intranets, extranets and external websites. Stratum8's
flagship Application Protection System (APS) prevents hacks and malicious
intruders from ever reaching their targets. Founded in 2000, the Company is
headquartered in Sunnyvale CA. http://www.stratum8.com .
About Rainbow Technologies
Founded in 1984, Rainbow Technologies is a leading provider of information
security solutions for the Internet, eCommerce, mCommerce, content protection,
software distribution and high-assurance communications. Rainbow applies its
core technology to a variety of Internet applications from securing software,
custom high-assurance security hardware, complete eBusiness services and
content/transaction security solutions corporate networks, VPNs, and the
Internet. Rainbow's products include: secure Web server acceleration
solutions; anti-piracy and Internet software distribution solutions; PKI-based
security solutions; voice, data and satellite information security and
authentication solutions; and USB-based Web authentication tokens. With
headquarters in Irvine, California, Rainbow Technologies maintains offices
throughout the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia,
China, India, The Netherlands, Brazil and Taiwan. A network of nearly
80 authorized distributors sells Rainbow products worldwide. For more
information, visit our Web site at http://www.rainbow.com .
Rainbow Technologies and CryptoSwift are trademarks of Rainbow
Technologies, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of
their respective organizations.
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe
harbor" for forward-looking statements. Certain information included in our
Annual Report on Form 10-K and other materials filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission ("SEC") (as well as information included in oral
statements or other written statements made or to be made by the Company)
contain statements relating to the following: dependence upon existing and
new product offerings, competition, intellectual property and licensing,
future growth, rapid technological and market change, manufacturing and
sourcing risks, Internet infrastructure and regulation, the inclusion of
network security functionality in hardware or system software, international
operations, among others. These conditions involve important factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any
forward-looking statements made by or on behalf of the Company. Any
forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and, as such, speak only as of the date made.
Statements made in this document that are not purely historical are
forward-looking statements, including any statements as to beliefs, plans,
expectations, or intentions regarding the future. The Company assumes no
obligation to update information concerning its expectations.
For further information please contact: Dan Chmielewski of Rainbow
Technologies, Inc., +1-949-450-7377, dchm@rainbow.com; or Deborah Jones of
Strategies, +1-714-957-8880 x113, deborah@strategiesadpr.com, for Rainbow
Technologies, Inc.; or Tom Bennett of Stratum8, Inc., +1-408-830-2840,
tom@stratum8.com
SOURCE Rainbow Technologies, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Dan Chmielewski of Rainbow Technologies,
Inc., +1-949-450-7377, dchm@rainbow.com; or Deborah Jones of
Strategies, +1-714-957-8880 x113, deborah@strategiesadpr.com, for
Rainbow Technologies, Inc.; or Tom Bennett of Stratum8, Inc.,
+1-408-830-2840, tom@stratum8.com
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