CA introduces latest addition to eTrust solution family

Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) has announced the beta release of eTrust PKI, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) product for authentication of users and management of digital certificates across the enterprise.

eTrust PKI closely integrates with CA`s eTrust OCSPro, eTrust VPN, and eTrust SSO security offerings, enabling businesses to incorporate digital certificate technology in their existing environments and ensure greater security and privacy for their data.

PKI architecture provides a widely accepted standard for ensuring the security of users, data, and applications. However, many PKI products require extensive customization to integrate with customers` existing IT infrastructure and business processes. Most also fail to provide effective administration of certificates across an entire organisations. This makes for costly, slow rollouts and can undermine the effectiveness of PKI implementations.

CA`s eTrust PKI, by contrast, facilitates rapid integration with enterprise systems and provides the enterprise administration capabilities that are so critical to effective implementation. eTrust PKI thus reduces the security risks associated with incomplete or faulty administration of certificates - while reducing the ongoing cost of best-practice security operations.

Large user populations can be enrolled in bulk into eTrust PKI, with day-to-day management of new users or revocations handled by non-expert staff through predefined profiles and a simplified management interface. eTrust PKI is easy to roll out across large enterprises, with built-in support for desktop deployment to enable certificates to work immediately with leading applications.

eTrust PKI can be easily set up and installed, and provides all required supporting infrastructure - such as directory and security policy repository.

eTrust PKI is designed for future growth through its pre-packaged X.500-based policy management repository. eTrust PKI also provides optional support for a wide range of smart card devices for user authentication and/or hardware security modules such as Gemplus, Rainbow, Eracom, and nCipher. An open interface enables integration of eTrust PKI with any standards-conformant smart card.

eTrust PKI integrates with applications across a wide range of environments including Win32, NT, Windows 2000, UNIX, and S/390 Linux. eTrust PKI is open to work with all LDAP-conformant directories for publication of certificate and revocation lists. eTrust PKI conforms to X.509 V3 and IETF standards, including the PKIX certificate and CRL profile, and OCSP RFCs.

In conjunction with this announcement, CA announced the immediate availability of new releases of eTrust Directory and eTrust OCSPro. The new eTrust Directory release enhances CA`s standards-compliant directory product with certificate management capabilities. The new eTrust OCSPro release delivers on-line certificate validation services to meet the security needs of Internet banking to the levels required by Identrus banks. It also simplifies administration with policy templates.

Custom packaged versions of both products are bundled with the eTrust PKI beta and are also available as full-featured stand-alone solutions from CA.

Additional information on CA`s eTrust solution is available at http://www.ca.com/etrust. For specific information on the eTrust PKI beta Program, please visit http://www.ca.com/products/betas/.