RSA Security has announced the newest versions of its RSA Keon digital certificate management software family designed to provide organisations with a firm foundation for creating trusted e-business processes. Keon protects the privacy of communications, affixes signatures to transactions digitally and verifies the integrity of stored or transmitted data.
Business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-business continues to substantiate the need for trusted, secure public key infrastructure (PKI).
The new releases of Keon are designed to allow organisations to more easily create the standards-based framework and trust infrastructure necessary for secure e-business and to allow for increased competitiveness and reduced costs. For example, companies are using PKI in various applications today such as digital signing to enforce contracts, smart cards, cable broadband devices and to securely authenticate users in a VPN environment.
"PKI continues to play an important role in the security infrastructure, both as a scaleable method for strong authentication of users, services and applications, and as a key enabler of integrity for digital information on enterprise networks," said Phil Schacter, director and senior analyst for the Burton Group. "In its upgraded RSA Keon products, RSA Security delivers a technically strong solution, accommodating customer requirements for scalability, reliability and secure Web applications and transactions."
Keon is a fully interoperable, standards-based solution designed to provide an environment for authenticated, private and legally binding electronic communications and transactions. The software delivers the production-ready features designed to provide customers with enhanced security, streamlined administration, scalability, ease-of-use, improved performance and investment protection.
"Security is paramount as companies move their business processes to the Internet, and public key infrastructure is one of the most effective technologies available to help ensure trusted transactions," said Peter Burgess, territory manager: sub-Saharan Africa at RSA Security. "These new versions of RSA Keon digital certificate management software are designed to bring increased security to organisations so they can cut costs, create new products and services, penetrate new markets and increase customer satisfaction."
RSA Security is introducing the following solutions:
RSA Keon Certificate Authority 6.0
. Designed to provide customers with greater integration with hardware security modules and a new collaborative security lockdown mechanism for administrators.
. Easier to use interface is designed to simplify administration and certificate enrolment process.
. New back-up capability is designed to provide customers with round the clock security for their critical e-business applications.
RSA Keon Security Server 5.6
. High scalability recovery process for lost or damaged encryption keys.
. Integration with third-party password management products allows the server to receive password changes from these products.
. Improved scalability and management with increased authentication throughput.
RSA Keon Desktop 5.6
. Supports RSA Keon CA for storage of encryption keys.
. High scalability recovery process for lost or damaged encryption keys.
. Extended trust functionality is designed to automate trusted certificates management in browser.
RSA Keon Web PassPort 1.1
Pricing and availability
. Supports RSA Keon CA for storage of encryption keys.
. Extended trust functionality is designed to automate trusted certificates management in browser.
. Active Directory Support.
. Automatic authenticated session timeout (important for regulations like HIPAA).
. Support for both local and central storage of credentials.
All of the RSA Keon digital certificate software solutions are available within 30 days and licensed on a per user basis. For more information on the RSA Keon product line, please visit www.rsasecurity.com/products/keon/
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RSA Security Inc, the most trusted name in e-security, helps organisations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust authorisation, RSA BSAFE encryption and RSA Keon digital certificate management product families. With more than one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than ten million RSA SecurID authentication users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the online economy. RSA Security can be reached at www.rsasecurity.com.
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