Rainbow Technologies, Inc, a leading provider of high-performance security solutions for the Internet and eCommerce, today announced that Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino, the ninth largest bank in Italy, has selected Rainbow`s CryptoSwift eCommerce accelerator to optimize Web server performance and accelerate SSL protocols for the bank`s eCommerce infrastructure.
Banca Popolare di Bergamo-C.V. has developed an aggressive strategy to pursue opportunities offered by the new economy. This strategy includes developments in wireless banking services, on-line trading, home-banking services accessible via web, GSM mobile phones, and a TV channel. In addition, both a B2B-marketplace joint venture and a stand-alone virtual Web bank have been initiated.
"We needed a solution that would enhance performance not only for our general computing infrastructure but for our Web servers," said Ugo Piazzalunga, senior engineer of research and development, Organizzazione e Sistemi Informativi Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino. "We also needed a solution that had a high degree of reliability and the ability to provide high assurance security to our Internet banking service. Rainbow`s Cryptoswift is just the right product for our requirements."
"Security, speed, and reliability is becoming a real concern in the Italian IT market as it is throughout the rest of the world," said Karine Guyon, Manager, EMEA channel sales, Rainbow Technologies. "Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino`s Internet infrastructure, using CryptoSwift, provides users with the best technology solution to improve scalability and enhance security for online financial services while enabling these secure transactions at a much faster speed."
CryptoSwift`s Edge for eCommerce
Rainbow Technologies` CryptoSwift family accelerates the public-key cryptographic functions of SSL, SET, SSH and other widely-used security protocols. CryptoSwift provides one of the world`s fastest hardware cryptographic acceleration technologies, providing up to as many as 1,000 transactions per second. CryptoSwift improves server response time for secure connections, and frees the eCommerce Web server to perform other tasks, especially during peak load and heavy traffic periods. It is an ideal solution for fast, secure online transactions for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce and online banking.
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Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino
Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino is the listed parent bank of a super-regional, multi-functional, multi-brand, multi-channel banking group operating in banking/insurance, leasing, merchant banking, consultancy and tax collection. From its origins in 1869, Banca Popolare di Bergamo-Credito Varesino has grown into a super-regional banking force strongly oriented towards the retail sector and small and medium-sized enterprises. The Group currently has 583 branches, of which more than half are in the wealthy region of Lombardy. The bank has accounts and total assets valued at $26 billion (U.S.) and a net worth of $1.5 billion. In 1999, the BPB-CV banking group ranked ninth largest in Italy in terms of total assets, customer deposits and lending.
Rainbow Technologies
Founded in 1984, Rainbow Technologies is a leading provider of security solutions for the Internet and eCommerce. Rainbow applies its core technology to a variety of Internet applications-from securing software, to the acceleration of secure communication for eCommerce and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Rainbow`s products include secure Web server and VPN acceleration boards; anti-piracy and Internet software distribution solutions; PKI security solutions; voice, data and satellite security systems; and USB-based authentication tokens. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, and maintains offices throughout the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, China, India, The Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan. A network of nearly 50 authorized distributors sells Rainbow products worldwide. For more information, visit our Web site at www.rainbow.com.