Expanding the Foundation ... Entrust Advances Methods for Secure Third-Party Communication

DALLAS, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- From contractors, vendors and trusted parties, secure communication with various outside partners is critical to ensure the integrity of an enterprise's comprehensive security approach. To help simplify this process, Entrust Inc. provides advanced capabilities for secure external communication via Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1

"As hard as organizations work to maintain proper internal security protocol, industry compliance and government mandates often dictate that securing external communication channels is just as important," said Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner. "From simple right-click encryption to the self-signed digital IDs, we saw a need for straightforward methods of secure communication with parties outside an organization's core network."

This release represents an important point on Entrust's technology roadmap for the popular enterprise security solutions. As the key management system for all digital certificates, this solution now includes enhanced capabilities and is evolving with customer usage as they migrate to new operating systems.

Comprehensive OS Support

With the introduction of 32- and 64-bit compatibility for Microsoft Windows 7, Entrust Entelligence Security Provider is now designed to operate with many of today's most popular platforms, including Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.

Going Solo

Entrust Entelligence Solo enables a user to generate a self-signed digital ID to securely communicate with other Solo or Entrust enterprise users via encrypted e-mail or file exchange. The Solo module allows Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1 customers to extend their existing security solution to their partners — all without having to install any additional software in their environment. The Entrust Entelligence Solo solution is also capable of providing digital signature and verification functions, as well as self-extracting password encryption.

Password Encryption

To streamline encryption to trusted third parties, Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1 now provides easy-to-use password encryption. As simple as the name implies, a user right-clicks to encrypt a document via a password rather than a digital certificate. This represents an effective means of one-way encryption to third parties, designed to improve efficiencies by saving time and resources.

TrueDelete

A value-added feature of the new release, TrueDelete provides Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1 users with true overwrite protection. By knowing that information is properly overwritten and undecipherable if recovered, users now have the ability to delete files with added confidence. With right-click functionality, TrueDelete uses 12 different overwrite methods as a means of verifying that deleted information cannot be retrieved. The process can be manual or automated, or may be used to securely delete source files during encryption.

Time-Stamping

For users that need trusted verification of document creation or alteration, the Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1 time-stamping feature affords the ability to create and verify S/MIME time stamps through a trusted third-party time-stamp server. This provides non-repudiation that files haven't been changed beyond the established date.

Command-Line Encryption

For users that rely on customization, Entrust provides a script for command-line encryption. Simply use script language to automate encryption and signing activities on files.

Entrust Entelligence Security Provider

Entrust Entelligence Security Provider 9.1 offers automatic management of an organization's digital IDs. This enables necessary enterprise security capabilities — including encryption, digital signatures, authentication and secure file deletion — via a single managed digital identity. This affords organizations the ability to address a broad set of application security requirements from a single client-based solution.

Entrust Entelligence Security Provider is capable of interoperating seamlessly with both Microsoft® Windows® and Microsoft® Outlook®. The platform serves as a digital ID management client for the Entrust Authority Security Manager certification authority (CA), which can seamlessly issue managed Entrust digital IDs, for users and/or for machines, within the native Microsoft Windows security architecture.

About Entrust

Entrust provides trusted solutions that secure digital identities and information for enterprises and governments in 2,000 organizations spanning 60 countries. Offering trusted security for less, Entrust solutions represent the right balance between affordability, expertise and service. These include SSL, strong authentication, fraud detection, digital certificates and PKI. For information, call 888-690-2424, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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