New Access Management Service and Trusted Integration Solution Provide
Customers with Faster, More Cost Effective Ways to Secure E-Business
Applications
Gartner Symposium IT Expo, ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) and IBM today unveiled the first set of jointly
developed security services and solutions to emerge from a global alliance the
two companies forged earlier this year.
The new services are specifically designed to help companies build
security and trust into e-business applications, enabling enterprises to more
securely extend proprietary, legacy or Web-based applications to more
customers, partners, suppliers and employees.
The new services include:
-- VeriSign Access Management(SM) Service (AMS) -- the first fully managed
service for access control and authorization. Operated by VeriSign and
based on IBM Tivoli Access Manager, the new service provides a single,
Web-based console for automating the management of users, groups,
roles, permissions and policies across multiple e-business
applications.
-- IBM-VeriSign Trusted e-business Integration Solution -- an enterprise
application integration (EAI) solution for trusted extranets. The
solution, built on VeriSign's Digital Authentication Services, IBM
WebSphere MQ and IBM Tivoli Access Manager, helps mitigate risk and
improve collaboration with business partners, suppliers and preferred
customers.
"Underlying the VeriSign-IBM global alliance is a common commitment to
provide customers with solutions for leveraging existing IT investments to
significantly accelerate the deployment of trusted e-business applications,"
said Anil Pereira, executive vice president and general manager of VeriSign's
enterprise and services provider division. "The introduction of VeriSign AMS
and our Trusted e-business Integration Solution can enable enterprises to
reduce costs, boost revenues, streamline processes, mitigate risks and improve
business collaboration."
"Customers of all sizes can tap IBM and VeriSign's security expertise to
build innovative portals, extranets and other business applications that
connect users within the enterprise or outside the firewall, without
compromising security," said Arvind Krishna, vice president of security
products, Tivoli Software, IBM. "This new method of delivering
enterprise-class security means more options for large organizations and opens
new opportunities for small-and medium-sized customers with secure e-business
requirements."
VeriSign Access Management Service
VeriSign AMS enables IT managers to maximize the scope, effectiveness and
efficiency of security policy implementations through a single, Web-based
console. The service is also fully integrated with VeriSign's portfolio of
Authentication, Authorization, and Administration (AAA) services, including
identity verification, public key infrastructure (PKI) and validation
services.
By employing this fully managed service, organizations of all sizes can
leverage the enterprise-class automated authorization capabilities of IBM
Tivoli Access Manager, which provides integration with a broad range of
e-business applications, portals, directories and Web services technologies.
Access management helps companies define and centrally administer security
policies. VeriSign Access Management Service features a single sign-on feature
for authorized users, allowing them to quickly gain access to a wealth of
network applications and services, which can save organizations considerable
time and money on help desk support.
Kontiki, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., plans to be the first company to
provide Web services applications capable of utilizing VeriSign's AMS (see
separate press release issued today by Kontiki).
"The beauty of VeriSign's Access Management Service is that it can be
seamlessly integrated within weeks to provide authentication and authorization
services to virtually any Web application or resource, enabling an enterprise
to enforce security policies system wide," said Mike Homer, chairman and CEO
of Kontiki. "We believe this will be a great service for enterprises looking
to securely deliver applications and services to customers, partners and
suppliers via corporate extranets."
IBM-VeriSign Trusted e-business Integration Solution
IBM-VeriSign Trusted e-business Integration Solution is a breakthrough
offering for securely integrating heterogeneous internal and external
applications -- including new, legacy, back-end and Web-based systems.
Built on VeriSign's Authentication Services and IBM Tivoli Access Manager,
the offering provides state-of-the-art security services for customers
utilizing IBM WebSphere MQ. The solution provides authentication, encryption,
digital signing and access control. The support for non-repudiation and audit
logging services can help reduce fraud and mitigate risk by maintaining an
electronic record of each on-line transaction.
The solution also gives customers added assurance that messages traveling
through enterprise infrastructures will reach their intended destinations.
As financial institutions, government agencies and other organizations
move to extend complex business processes to an Internet-based environment,
they face complex challenges in connecting multiple applications in a secure
and seamless manner. Customers can utilize this powerful new solution and
leverage their existing infrastructure investments to reduce costs, boost
revenues, streamline processes, mitigate risk and improve collaboration with
business partners, suppliers and preferred customers.
Designed for reliability, scalability, and ease of integration, the
IBM-VeriSign Trusted e-business Integration Solution enables financial
institutions and other enterprises to cost-effectively and rapidly integrate
select applications within a single department or hundreds of applications
operating across multiple business channels, trading partners and Web
customers.
Availability
The VeriSign Access Management Service and the IBM-VeriSign Trusted
e-business Integration Solution are both available immediately through the
VeriSign and IBM direct sales forces. See
http://www.verisign.com/products/ams/index.html for more information about
VeriSign's AMS. For more information about the IBM-VeriSign Trusted
e-business Integration Solution and other collaborations between the two
companies, see http://www-3.ibm.com/software/alliances/verisign/ .
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. is the leading provider of digital trust services that
enable everyone, everywhere to engage in commerce and communications with
confidence. VeriSign's digital trust services create a trusted environment
through four core offerings - Web presence services, security services,
payment services, and telecommunication services - powered by a global
infrastructure that manages more than seven billion network connections and
transactions a day. Additional news and information about the company is
available at http://www.verisign.com.
About IBM
IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years
of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Software offers the widest
range of middleware and operating systems for all types of computing
platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of
e-business. IBM WebSphere business integration software and Tivoli security
management software helps customers around the world securely manage billions
of transactions per day while also integrating business processes. For more
information visit http://www.ibm.com/software.
Statements in this announcement other than historical data and
information, including but not limited to, statements regarding benefits of
VeriSign's restructuring and new service offerings, constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ
materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, VeriSign's
limited operating history under its current business structure, the risk that
businesses of previously-acquired companies as well as other businesses will
not be integrated successfully and unanticipated costs of such integration;
uncertainty of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in
quarterly operating results; the ability of VeriSign to successfully develop
and market new services and customer acceptance of any new services; the risk
that VeriSign's announced strategic relationships may not result in additional
products, services, customers and revenues; increased competition and pricing
pressures; risk that the company may not be able to achieve anticipated cost
savings from the restructuring; and risks related to potential security
breaches. More information about potential factors that could affect the
company's business and financial results is included in VeriSign's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the company's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and quarterly reports
on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the
forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.
SOURCE VeriSign, Inc.
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Related links:
http://www.verisign.com
CONTACT:
press, David Berkowitz, +1-650-426-5526, or
dberkowitz@verisign.com, or investors, Steven Gatoff,
+1-650-426-4560, or sgatoff@verisign.com, both of VeriSign, Inc.;
or press, Cas Purdy of IBM, +1-512-286-3208, or cpurdy@us.ibm.com
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