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Vin McLellan (vin@shore.net)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 13:27:57 -0500
Network Associates to Ship Comprehensive PKI From Xcert International with
All Security Product Suites
Network Associates Customers to Receive Scalable Open-Standards Certificate
Management Integrated Into Net Tools Secure Product Line
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Associates, Inc.
(Nasdaq: NETA - news) unveiled the next step in its integrated security
strategy today by announcing a technology partnership with Xcert
International that will bring full open-standards PKI (public key
infrastructure) functionality to all Network Associates customers as a
standard feature of its integrated security product suites. Beginning in the
first quarter of 1999, all integrated security suites from Network
Associates will include the new Net Tools PKI server, an
enterprise-scaleable PKI server based on Xcert's award-winning digital
certificate management technology.
``Network Associates has been very aggressive in driving much needed open
standards and interoperability in the security space,'' said Sanjay Kalra,
president of Icons, Inc., a leading nationwide PKI consulting firm. ``By
working with Xcert to include a complete standards-based PKI in all of their
security application suites at no extra charge, Network Associates is making
things like universal client VPNs and active response firewalls a reality
for customers of all sizes. This announcement is the perfect follow-up to
their previous PKI partnerships with VeriSign and Entrust.''
As a result of this partnership, Network Associates customers will be able
to broadly deploy integrated security solutions that interoperate through
secure and authenticated channels. With this announcement, Network
Associates becomes the first vendor to enable secure, scaleable integration
between individual security applications by providing flexible PKI
functionality out of the box and universally supporting existing PKI
solutions like those from partners like VeriSign (Nasdaq: VRSN - news),
Entrust Technologies (Nasdaq: ENTU - news) and Xcert. Network Associates
customers will be licensed to use the new Net Tools PKI with any Network
Associates application.
Under the terms of the agreement, Network Associates will integrate Xcert's
award-winning PKI technology into its Net Tools Secure product line, a suite
of best-in-class security applications spanning firewall, intrusion
protection, vulnerability scanning, encryption, authentication, anti-virus,
and security management. Xcert's flexible open architecture has received
multiple industry accolades this year, including a recent Editor's Choice
selection from Network Computing that praised Xcert's technology as the
``best strategic choice for PKI in the enterprise.'' Xcert's technology was
selected by Network Associates because of its broad support of all industry
PKI standards, including x.509, PGP, LDAP, and PKCS #7, 10, and 11.
``Network Associates is committed to promoting broad interoperability and
open standards in the security industry,'' said Peter Watkins, general
manager of the Net Tools Secure division at Network Associates. ``This
agreement makes it even easier for our customers to deploy scaleable,
standards-based, security applications that work together in concert to
actively respond to changing security threats.''
``This technology license agreement expands Network Associates'
best-of-breed security offerings to include the industrial-strength PKI
necessary for conducting business-to-business electronic commerce and
communications,'' said Thomas Nolan, President and CEO of Xcert
International. ``Network Associates customers will be able to broadly deploy
distributed security applications, regardless of whether or not they have a
general PKI solution. Because Xcert's technology supports all certificate
standards, Network Associates customers will also be able to interact
seamlessly with business partners who have disparate PKI solutions in use.''
While other security application vendors have recently discussed plans to
integrate their products, none have addressed universal PKI support, an
essential element to making integrated security a secure and scaleable
reality for enterprise customers. As a result of this agreement, Network
Associates customers will be able to broadly deploy distributed security
applications such as remote VPN and client-side encryption across large user
populations. The new Net Tools PKI will also support more robust certificate
management for authenticated communications between integrated Network
Associates security applications. Through a concept known as ``Active
Security,'' Network Associates is enabling its security products to operate
in concert, actively communicating events between applications and adapting
security policies of these applications for real-time active response when
critical security threats are detected.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Network Associates, Inc. is a
leading supplier of enterprise network security and management software.
Network Associates' Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager offer
best-of-breed, suite-based network security and management solutions. Net
Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager suites combine to create Net Tools, which
centralizes these point solutions within an easy-to-use integrated systems
management environment. For more information, Network Associates can be
reached at (408) 988-3832 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com.
Based in Walnut Creek, California, Xcert International Inc. is the premier
developer of Public Key Infrastructure technology. Xcert's products provide
privacy and authenticity for conducting secure Internet business
transactions. Xcert develops, manufactures and distributes Certificate
Authority and public key infrastructure solutions that use secure directory
services to provide organizations and individuals with a ubiquitous and
secure method of communicating with each other over the Internet. Xcert also
licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and
third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web
at http://www.xcert.com.
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