Xcert Joins Check Point Software OPSEC Alliance for Guaranteed Interoperability of PKI Products
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - May 25, 1999 - Xcert International Inc., the premier developer of software products for securing business-to-business electronic commerce over the Internet, announced today it has joined Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.'s (Nasdaq: CHKP) Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity (OPSEC) Alliance. Xcert's public key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate products will be integrated with Check Point Software's VPN-1 Gateway and SecuRemote client software products for seamless interoperability. Xcert's membership in the OPSEC Alliance strengthens Check Point Software's recent open PKI initiative as part of Check Point Software's 1999 VPN roadmap. Check Point Software has more than 17,000 VPN-1 Gateway installations and has deployed millions of SecuRemote VPN clients. Participation in the alliance provides Xcert's customers with the assurance that they can seamlessly integrate Check Point's firewall and VPN solutions with Xcert's Sentry CA and broadens Check Point Software's ability to offer market-leading PKI technologies and provide additional interoperability with Xcert to enable secure and manageable VPN deployments across global networks. "Customers are widely deploying VPN-1 Gateways across their enterprise to provide secure communication between branch offices, remote/mobile employees and partners/suppliers," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "Check Point Software's VPN-1 Gateway scales to support tens of thousands of SecuRemote clients, as such a scaleable authentication mechanism is a requirement. PKI provides the scaleable authentication mechanism necessary for VPN-1 Gateway deployments. OPSEC compliance will provide Xcert customers with the assurance that they can seamlessly integrate Check Point's market leading scaleable VPN-1 Gateway solution with Xcert's PKI." "Xcert's commitment to interoperate within the OPSEC Framework will make Xcert's best-of-breed Internet-based PKI solutions available to Check Point's installed base of 30,000 customers and 77,000 installations," said Cecil Dye, vice president of sales and marketing of Xcert. "Xcert's digital certificates offer the highest assurance for the Internet and enable non-repudiable business-to-business e-commerce across corporate firewalls and between multiple VPNs." The Xcert Sentry CA 3.5 product suite provides the electronic assurance necessary to conduct sensitive, confidential business over the Internet or through intranet, extranet and VPN applications. Sentry CA 3.5 lets an organization own and operate its own digital certificate authority (CA) according to its existing business practices. It is the only solution to interoperate with all other standard PKI systems and extend PKI beyond the firewall, enabling enterprises to exchange digital certificates with business partners and customers regardless of location. Xcert's technology enables financial institutions, large corporations and government agencies to increase revenue and improve productivity by conducting sensitive business transactions electronically. Xcert's customers are able to use digital signatures and strong cryptography to cost effectively manage confidential and non-repudiable communications with hundreds of thousands of users outside the firewall and from other virtual private networks. OPSEC compliance will ensure that Xcert's standards based digital certificates can be deployed to the installed base of millions of existing VPN-1 clients to support e-business without requiring an additional expenditure on client software or proprietary application protocols.
Check Point Software's Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity (OPSEC(tm)) is an open architecture solution that provides the industry's only enterprise-wide policy management and policy enforcement framework. The more than 200 companies which are part of the OPSEC Alliance leverage the OPSEC framework to provide customers choice and an integrated architecture to centrally manage all aspects of secure enterprise networking. These partners have made OPSEC the most successful alliance in the industry by building certified products and solutions which extend the OPSEC architecture in four key ways: 1) Framework: Use a combination of published OPSEC application programming interfaces (APIs), and industry standards for policy management and policy enforcement integration in areas including public key infrastructure, directory services, content security, authentication and authorization, intrusion detection, event analysis and reporting and high availability. 2) Infrastructure: Provide customers with the widest choice in platforms by embedding Check Point Software technology in the network infrastructure including servers, switches, and appliances. 3) Passport: Work with Check Point Software to insure that application-level policies can be managed and enforced across the network to secure the customer's e-business and enterprise applications. 4) Managed Services: Provide customers with the choice of secure enterprise networking solutions available as a complete managed service offering.
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP) is the worldwide leader in secure enterprise networking solutions. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (FireWall-1, VPN-1, Provider-1, Open Security Manager and Check Point RealSecure), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl) and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point's products seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products from more than 200 leading industry partners. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit http://www.checkpoint.com or http://www.opsec.com.
Based in Walnut Creek, California, Xcert International Inc. is the premier developer of Public Key Infrastructure technology. Xcert's products provide privacy and authenticity for conducting secure Internet business transactions. Xcert develops, manufactures and distributes Certificate Authority and public key infrastructure solutions that use secure directory services to provide organizations and individuals with a secure and non-repudiable method of communicating with each other over the Internet. Xcert also licenses its underlying PKI technology to selected service providers and third party developers worldwide. Xcert can be reached on the World Wide Web at www.xcert.com. ### (c)1999 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Meta IP, Open Security Extension, Open Security Manager, OPSEC, Provider-1, User-to-Address Mapping, VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Appliance, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, VPN-1 Gateway, VPN-1 SecuRemote, and ConnectControl are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. or its affiliates. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The products described in this document are protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,606,668 and 5,835,726 and may be protected by other U.S. Patents, foreign patents, or pending applications. Xcert the Xcert logo, Sentry CA, Sentry RA and WebSentry are all trademarks of Xcert International, Inc. |