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13 May 2002 - Best-ever InfoSecurity show for CyberSafe
CyberSafe Limited had a record year at InfoSecurity
Europe 2002, which took place at London’s Olympia from 23-25 April
CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk) had a record
year at InfoSecurity Europe 2002, which took place at London's Olympia
from 23-25 April.
"As people become increasingly aware of its capabilities,
there is more interest than ever in the Kerberos authentication protocol
and how it can provide enterprise-wide security across a range of networks,
operating systems and applications," says Tim Alsop, CyberSafe's
technical director.
"There is clearly a need for common authentication
within today's enterprise networks. For example, nearly 80 per cent of
visitors to the CyberSafe stand use Microsoft Windows 2000 servers, while
the same number also host applications on UNIX. Understandably these organisations
are looking for a way to bridge the security gap between these and other
systems. Our TrustBroker™ solutions, the only commercially-supported
Kerberos-based authentication solutions on the market, are ideally suited
to this type of environment, and can deliver true end-to-end authentication."
There is also some misunderstanding about whether PKI
and Kerberos can be used together. "Kerberos is fully compatible
with, and complementary to, PKI authentication techniques, which are in
use by almost half the organisations who spoke to us at the show. Our
TrustBroker Kerberos solutions have been developed to work with multiple
authentication mechanisms such as PKI, token devices and smart cards for
maximum enterprise security," continues Alsop.
With so much interest in its award-winning solutions,
this year's InfoSecurity show saw CyberSafe become involved in high-level
discussions with several multinational corporations. "The Kerberos
protocol is trusted by many major software vendors, including Microsoft
and Oracle, to provide multi-platform common authentication," concludes
Alsop. "Our customers are keen to know more about both TrustBroker
and our ability to integrate with and support other Kerberos protocol
implementations to enable them to secure their entire network, including
all mainstream operating systems and business applications."
About CyberSafe
Headquartered in the UK, the mission of CyberSafe Limited
is to deliver and support Kerberos based security solutions on a global
basis. As well as supporting, marketing and developing the TrustBroker™
. (also previously marketed as ActiveTRUST™.) products originally
developed by US based CyberSafe Corporation*, CyberSafe Limited provides
complementary solutions with, and promotes the appropriate use of, other
Kerberos protocol implementations available on the market today - both
Open Source, such as that provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT), and the capabilities of the Kerberos protocol included in Microsoft
operating systems.
With this approach CyberSafe is able to offer the best technology based
solution to meet each customer's individual network and application authentication
needs.
About Kerberos
Kerberos, originally developed at MIT under its Project
Athena, provides secure authentication in networked environments, without
the threat of passwords being viewed while traveling across the network.
Additionally, the protocol includes data integrity to ensure messages
are not tampered with on the network and message privacy (encryption)
to ensure messages are not visible to eavesdroppers on the network. The
protocol is appropriately named after the three headed dog who, in Greek
mythology, guarded the entrance to Hades. Kerberos is designed to provide
strong authentication for client/server applications such as Oracle by
using secret-key cryptography.
A reference implementation of the protocol is available from MIT as Open
Source. The Kerberos protocol has also been implemented in some commercially
available products, such as those provided by CyberSafe, and Microsoft
has implemented the Kerberos protocol in its Windows 2000 and XP operating
systems. Some UNIX operating system vendors have also included support
for Kerberos in their operating systems and an increasing number of application
vendors are recognising the value that this protocol can have to improve
the authentication and privacy capabilities in their products.
Used to secure particularly vulnerable network communications like ftp,
telnet and other widely used Internet protocols, which normally transmit
user ID's and passwords in clear text, Kerberos provides the "plumbing"
for common authentication services. Its scalability means that it is ideal
for many different types of organisation - small or large.
* There is no financial
connection between CyberSafe Limited and CyberSafe Corporation
For further information, please contact:
Christina Relf, Kudos Marketing Ltd
DDI: +44 (0)1794 514441 Switchboard: +44 (0)1794 518171 Fax: 08700 515879
christina@kudos-marketing.co.uk
Tim Alsop, Technical Director, CyberSafe Limited
DDI: +44(0)1256 330596 Switchboard: +44 (0)700 4 KERBEROS / +44(0)700
4 537 237
Fax: +44 (0)207 681 3249
tim.alsop@cybersafe.ltd.uk
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