Computer Associates introduces end-to-end security solution for e-business

Computer Associates International, CA, today announced a broad-based solution that supports customers` e-business initiatives with the industry`s most comprehensive portfolio of integrated security, privacy and trust services.

CA`s eTrust security solution seamlessly bundles security functions that are essential to delivering trusted e-business solutions, allowing customers to get to market more rapidly and reduce development costs without compromising transaction integrity.

eTrust fully addresses the challenges of buyers and sellers in an e-business relationship. Buyers want assurances that their transaction will be honoured and private. Sellers want assurances that they have recourse. Both parties want to work within an auditable, policy-based business model that is effectively protected from viruses, malicious code, cyber-criminals and other threats.

"Security is the essential ingredient for every virtual business relationship," said CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang. "As e-business exponentially, CA`s eTrust is designed to facilitate security and trust by delivering some of today`s most powerful integrated security, trust, and privacy services and solutions.

"The eTrust portfolio of tools and solutions includes trust certificates, encryption controls, antivirus mechanisms, malicious code prevention, denial-of-service counter-measures, intrusion detection, firewall facilities, PKI certificate management, surveillance, policy compliance, authentication, authorization, single sign-on, non-repudiation, alerts and comprehensive auditing capabilities.

eTrust`s components secure every aspect of the e-business value chain -- protecting not only the systems and the networks, but also the data and the applications they enable. eTrust includes a trust certificate solution that confirms the identity of the trading parties in any e-business transaction. Through a powerful implementation of the On-line Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP), eTrust enables any company to conduct trusted business-to-business e-commerce with any other member that is also a member of the Identrus network, the global banking industry`s foremost trust infrastructure.

"Everyone wants the Internet to be a secure, `well-lit` place in which to do business," Wang said. "An essential pre-requisite is to have in place a highly reliable and trusted security solution that deals with issues such as identification, authentication, privacy, fraud control -- as well as the more traditional aspects of authorization, administration and auditing."

CA`s recent strategic acquisition of Platinum has enriched CA`s eTrust security solution suite with a number of proven tools to provide complete coverage of the entire spectrum of security needs. These security solutions can be easily integrated on top of CA`s Jasmine TND Intelligent Infrastructure to deliver an application development/deployment solutions of unparalleled value.

CA`s eTrust solutions are built on an open, standards-based security infrastructure. They include:

.         eTrust PKI-Public Key Infrastructure with policy-based security

.         eTrust VPN-Trusted virtual private network with authorisation and authentication

.         eTrust Encryption-Simplified end-to-end secure communication

.         eTrust Firewall-Fast, efficient and manageable Internet protection of networks

.         eTrust Antivirus-Total virus protection across the enterprise from the Internet gateway to the local desktop with centralised policy management

.         eTrust Content Inspection-Policy-based intelligent Internet protection against malicious code including Java and ActiveX at the gateway and at the desktop

.         eTrust Intrusion Detection-Intelligent network intrusion detection with proactive defence for prevention of damage

.         eTrust Access Control-Policy based authorisation and access control across the distributed enterprise

.         eTrust Single Sign-on -Single sign-on for applications, database and systems across the distributed enterprise, including over the Web

.         eTrust Admin-Policy-based user and resource management across heterogeneous enterprise directories and namespaces

.         eTrust Policy Compliance-Enterprise-wide analysis of security policies, including automatic corrective measures through eTrust Admin and eTrust Access Control

.         eTrust Audit-Centralized audit for the enterprise across the entire security suite

.         eTrust Desktop Security-Complete desktop security with protected zones preventing damage from unknown malicious code and viruses

.         eTrust Directory-X.500 standards-compliant fault-tolerant directory server for the enterprise backbone structure

"How do you build security on the Internet? Ultimately, like in the physical world, you do it one transaction at a time, establishing and refining a trustworthy environment users can come to rely on," Wang said.

"Having the appropriate tools in place across the e-commerce value chain makes this process easier and manageable."