To help organisations increase security and reduce fraud in controlling Internet-based services and assets, RSA Security and Sun Microsystems are teaming to deliver an integrated network identity infrastructure.
As part of a joint sales, engineering and marketing agreement, the companies are working to ensure interoperability between RSA ClearTrust Web access management and RSA Keon digital certificate management software, and the Sun ONE Directory Server and Sun ONE Portal Server. Customers can now build a trusted environment for online processes, and balance Web access with the appropriate levels of security, based on the RSA Security and Sun offering. The Sun ONE Directory Server and Sun ONE Portal Server are two key elements of the Sun ONE Platform for Network Identity, a combined hardware, software and services offering that helps organisations rapidly establish an open, end-to-end network identity infrastructure.
RSA ClearTrust Web access management software is now interoperable with the Sun ONE Directory Server and Sun ONE Portal Server, and porting to the Sun ONE Application Server is underway. In addition, RSA Keon digital certificate management software currently supports the Sun ONE Directory Server, the Sun ONE Web Server and the Sun ONE Portal Server.
"Today`s Internet-based business environment requires the ability to protect information assets and secure relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and employees," said Shahram Moradpour, senior director of Market Development at Sun Microsystems. "Working with companies like RSA Security, we can deliver a comprehensive Network Identity infrastructure to help enterprises increase security and user convenience through integrated authentication and access management solutions."
RSA ClearTrust software is a unified Web access management solution that is designed to provide powerful, flexible capabilities for centrally managing and enforcing Web user access privileges. When integrated with key enterprise applications, the RSA ClearTrust solution translates business rules and security policies into online authorisation policies, enabling dynamic protection of information assets.
RSA Keon software is designed to issue, manage and validate digital certificates. With RSA Keon software, organisations can define and self-administer their own security procedures, trust relationships, certificate formats and rules for certificate life cycles that serve as a foundation for corporate security policies.
"We will be working closely with Sun Microsystems as a valued member of our RSA Secured Partner Programme," said John Worrall, vice president of marketing at RSA Security. "Full support of Sun ONE Directory Server and Sun ONE Portal Server, as well as other products in the Sun ONE family, is key to our goal of making RSA Security solutions highly interoperable, helping enable our customers to achieve rapid deployment, strong integration and lower overall costs."
The integration of RSA ClearTrust Web access management software with Sun ONE Directory and Portal Servers is designed to allow customers to:
* Utilise existing user data from across the enterprise, without replication or recreation, resulting in easier deployment and management.
* Centralise access management with the existing e-business infrastructure, delivering reduced administration costs and investment protection.
* Allow both internal departments and external customers and affiliates to manage their own access with delegated administration, thus reducing administrative costs and lowering total cost of ownership.
The integration of RSA Keon Certificate Authority and RSA Keon Web PassPort with the Sun ONE Directory Server provides automated and centralised credential management, helping companies conduct secure and cost-effective e-business by providing a flexible and scalable system for managing digital identities.
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RSA Security Inc (NASDAQ: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security, helps organisations build trusted e-business processes through its RSA SecurID two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust Web access management, RSA BSAFE encryption and RSA Keon digital certificate management product families.
With approximately one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than 12 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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Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision - "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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