AST-A announces next-generation desktop solutions

AST Business Integrity Solutions, a division of Advanced Software Technologies-Abraxas, has announced Entrust Technologies` Entrust/PKI 5.0, a managed PKI solution with best-of-breed security, flexibility and low cost for enabling organisations to conduct trusted e-business.

"Entrust`s business solutions help organisations secure business transactions such as e-mailing confidential information to clients, providing online services to clients on the Web, storing confidential company information on laptops and providing remote access to company networks," says Steve Crutchley, GM of AST Business Integrity Solutions, SA distributor for Entrust.

"Entrust Desktop Solutions 5.0 is a collection of intelligent software applications that transparently manages day-to-day security functions for users and includes solutions for trusted e-mail, desktop, Web and Enterprise Resource Planning applications on a single CD," adds Crutchley.

The Entrust Desktop Solutions 5.0 CD includes the following business applications for securing major e-business transactions:

• Entrust/Entelligence manages the day-to-day security functions for all transactions on behalf of the user.

• Secure Desktop - Entrust/SignOn for simultaneous sign on to Microsoft Windows and Entrust/PKI; Entrust/ICE for securing desktop files and folders; Entrust/TrueDelete to securely scrub deleted files and temp files from the user`s hard drive.

• Secure E-Mail - Entrust/Express, an interoperable S/MIME security extension for securing the transactions of popular e-mail packages.

• Secure Web - Entrust/Direct for advanced Web transactions that require complete trust from browser to server; Entrust/Unity for extending the security functionality of Netscape and Microsoft browsers and e-mail.

• The Entrust Security Solution for SAP R/3 strongly authenticates users to enterprise resource planning applications for secure supply chain or mission-critical client/server operations within the organisation.