The Entrust Enterprise Desktop Suite seamlessly integrates with a user`s current business applications to address issues such as secure e-mail, Web solutions, authentication, desktop and Internet-based access control and automated file/folder encryption. It also provides boot lock and anti-virus detection of encrypted files.
For some time, security in the IT industry has been a thorny and slightly contentious issue. Most IS managers or directors simply wish it would `go away`, so they wouldn`t have to worry about such things as hackers or viruses infiltrating their systems and either raiding their bank accounts or causing havoc. Sadly, they eventually have to face the fact that crime is here to stay.
"Every company has a moral and ethical responsibility to their shareholders, their customers and their partners to guarantee confidential and secure transactions on their networks," says Steve Crutchley, General Manager of AST Security Management, SA distributors of Entrust products. "But until recently, the high cost and complexity of doing this was a deterring factor.
"Now, with highly advanced technologies combining within a single security infrastructure to offer a complete desktop solution that is easy to install, easy to use and extremely cost-effective, there really are no more excuses. Every company can now easily honour their moral and ethical obligation to protect their logical and intellectual property just as they do their physical property."
The Entrust Enterprise Desktop Suite offers transparent security to the user and utilises a single password for access to all its integrated security applications. This complete desktop security solution will save CIOs, security officers, business unit managers, end users and e-mail administrators valuable time and money.
Designed to improve the overall efficiency of an organisation`s business processes, this desktop suite protects corporate information without adding incremental administrative costs. The products in the suite are integrated through the Entrust/Toolkit standards-based application programming interfaces, allowing single login or a single password for all Entrust or Entrust-Ready applications.
The convenience enhances overall ease-of-use and administration and leverages a customer`s existing investment in PKIs by providing comprehensive security management that is scalable across the enterprise with centralised key and certificate administration. The Entrust/PKI issues standards-based X.509 certificates, ensuring complex security services such as certificate revocation checking are performed transparently for end users.
The Entrust Enterprise Desktop Suite`s key products and core features are:
- PKI technology - Entrust/Entelligence software performs day-to-day cryptographic operations on behalf of the end user, while hiding the complexity of cryptography from end users and providing the necessary desktop functionality across Entrust-Ready applications.
- Automated file and folder encryption - Entrust-Ready Norton Your Eyes Only allows users to transparently encrypt and decrypt files, folders and subfolders. The `on-the-fly` encryption capability ensures that file names remain the same although the file is encrypted.
- Secure S/MIME e-mail solutions - Entrust/Express 4.0 for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook 97 is a security extension, which secures e-mail, attachments and files. The addition of S/MIME support, which is also easily accessible through a single toolbar button, enables interoperability with numerous e-mail packages, regardless of platform.
- Anti-virus detection - Entrust-Ready products can access either Norton AntiVirus or McAfee VirusScan for virus detection before decryption. Therefore, encrypted files that previously could not be scanned for viruses are no longer a threat to corporate computing.
- Secure web solutions - Entrust/Direct 3.0 works with Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers and servers to replace SSL security between Web browsers and servers with Entrust security, which enables strong, mutual, certificate-based authentication.
- Secure desktop access control - users can protect log-on access with Symantec`s Bootlock which ensures that only authorised users can access a PC after it is turned on, and Secure ScreenLock which only allows authorised users to access a PC that is turned on but left unattended).
- Secure file deletion - Entrust/TrueDelete provides a transparent method of securely deleting files.
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