DALLAS, April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Entrust, Inc. launches the Entrust Managed Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Service designed to help businesses and government agencies grow their core business security without having to develop PKI expertise internally. Set to be operational in the second quarter of 2006, Entrust Managed PKI Service has been designed to meet US Federal Common policy and standards requirements while providing the same high level of technology and services that have positioned Entrust as a leader in PKI.
"Entrust's knowledge and experience on the front lines of PKI technology is unsurpassed," said Entrust Senior Vice President Peter Bello. "We believe the service offering will help allow enterprises and government agencies to take advantage of the flexibility and enabling values of Entrust's PKI technology in a quick, efficient and cost effective way."
Entrust Managed PKI Service also will be able to help federal agencies meet HSPD-12 requirements, a directive issued by President Bush on August 27, 2004 intended to strengthen executive branch security by standardizing employee and contractor access to federal facilities and information systems. In addition to utilizing the Entrust Managed PKI Service, government agencies also can leverage their existing Entrust PKI implementation to address HSPD-12 requirements.
"With renewed interest in PKI, driven primarily by enterprise and government initiatives such as HSPD-12, having a choice of best-of-breed vendors is critical," said Allan Carey, program manager for security services research at IDC. "Entrust's long history in the PKI market positions them well to provide that choice for government and enterprise customers."
Entrust Managed PKI Service will include the management functions that have set Entrust apart from other vendors in the market including high availability, disaster recovery, automated failover and network protection. Additional benefits of Entrust's PKI service include intrusion protection, anti-virus for the Certification Authority (CA) services, denial of service protections and archival of CA data. These strong management services are provided transparently to end-users of the Entrust Managed PKI Service. Cygnacom Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Entrust, Inc., will operate the CA.
"In addition to the federal marketplace, we believe Entrust Managed PKI Service will be of particular interest to commercial companies and state agencies that need stronger security with the enabling characteristics of PKI, but don't want to incur the costs of building and maintaining an infrastructure to support it," Bello said. "Once operational, we intend to move quickly to achieve Shared Service Provider (SSP) and Federal Bridge Certificate Authority (FBCA) cross-certification status, helping provide seamless secure data exchange and authentication across multiple federal and state agencies."
As a trusted provider of PKI software and services to government and industry for over ten years, Entrust offers industry-leading solutions combined with unrivaled knowledge of the Federal PKI environment and policies. This technology can help allow Entrust customers to reap the benefits of PKI's security and transparent ease of use to the end user. Current Entrust PKI product customers include the State of Illinois, State of Virginia, the Departments of State, Treasury, Energy and Justice, as well as NASA, the Government Printing Office, US Patent and Trademark Office, FBI and the USDA's National Finance Center.
More information on Entrust's offering along with a detailed white paper that can help guide agency CIOs through HSPD-12 PKI implementation can be found at http://www.entrust.com/resources/download.cfm/22224 .
About Entrust
Entrust, Inc. is a world leader in securing digital identities and information. Over 1,400 enterprises and government agencies in more than 50 countries use Entrust solutions to help secure the digital lives of their citizens, customers, employees and partners. Our proven software and services can help customers in achieving regulatory and corporate compliance, while helping to turn security challenges such as identity theft and e-mail security into business opportunities. For more information on how Entrust can help secure your digital life, please visit: http://www.entrust.com/
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This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the new Entrust Managed PKI Service (the "Service") that Entrust expects to release and the expected benefits of that new service, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays or failure to complete development and/or testing of the new service, failure of the new service to support or interoperate with various hardware and software products used by typical enterprise and/or government customers, delays in the training of Entrust's sales/marketing forces in respect to the capabilities of the new service, undetected software errors or bugs in the new service or in any third-party software or hardware required to support the new service, difficulties in working with the provider of the physical facilities at which the software and hardware supporting the service (or portions thereof) will be located, difficulties experienced by Entrust's customers in deploying the new service, competitive pressures, market acceptance of the new service, changes in customer requirements, governmental regulations, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Entrust's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation Entrust's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended December 31, 2005. Entrust cautions investors that it might not update any or all of the foregoing forward-looking statements.
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