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8 April 2003 - CyberSafe Limited launch new Web
security product at InfoSecurity Europe 2003
CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk), the
Kerberos solution provider, is exhibiting on stand 497 at InfoSecurity
Europe 2003 at Olympia, London from 29th April to 1st May 2003.
The company will be showcasing its new TrustBroker™
WebAccess product, which for the first time allows Kerberos, the
strategic network security protocol, to be used with multi-platform,
multi-vendor Web and n-tier application deployments. The product
allows authentication of users, on Windows workstations, to be used
by an Internet Explorer browser to securely present the users identity
to Web servers, Web proxy servers, J2EE application servers and
databases, providing a strategic end-to-end application security
architecture without any passwords being stored, or transmitted
across the network. The first release of the product supports Apache,
the industry standard Web server and IBM WebSphere Application Server
version 5. CyberSafe have plans to add support in the future for
other Application Servers such as BEA WebLogic and Oracle iAS, as
well as other commonly used Web servers.
Says Tim Alsop, technical director of CyberSafe
Limited: “We are delighted to be able to announce our new
WebAccess product at Info Security 2003. The product provides improved
security and increased convenience for users, due to a reduction
in the number of times they have to authenticate themselves. It
can be used to securely access the Internet via a Web proxy server
or securely access Web applications on an Intranet or Extranet.”
Also, at the show CyberSafe will be presenting
their TrustBroker™ products which fully utilise and help companies
implement the mature, standards-based Kerberos authentication protocol,
and will demonstrate how they can answer enterprise security needs
by making multi-platform common authentication a reality. The product
demonstration will show encryption and common authentication services
with widely used business applications such as telnet, ftp, Oracle,
Sybase and SAP® R/3.
About Kerberos
Kerberos, an open standard based secure authentication
protocol, was initially designed at MIT under its Project Athena
in the late 1970s. Since then it has been enhanced, developed and
productised by CyberSafe into its award winning TrustBroker™
products. Microsoft has also implemented the Kerberos protocol in
its Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server operating systems and Oracle
and Sybase provide Kerberos support within their database products.
Some UNIX operating system vendors have included support for Kerberos
in their operating systems. With varying degrees of interoperability
between the various vendor solutions, CyberSafe is ideally positioned
(not being an operating system vendor itself) to offer a strategic
cross-platform, commercially available implementation of the Kerberos
protocol with consistent and standards based application interfaces
across each operating system platform.
The protocol provides a key management solution
for authentication purposes. It also 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. Kerberos is ideally suited to provide strong authentication,
encryption and message integrity for n-tier or client/server applications
such as Oracle, Sybase, SAP R/3 as well as an increasing number
of widely used applications and utilities.
Often used to secure particularly vulnerable network
communications like ftp, telnet and other applications, which normally
transmit user ID’s and passwords in clear text, Kerberos provides
the “plumbing” for a common authentication service.
Its scalability means that it is ideal for many different types
of organisation – small or large.
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
its TrustBroker? products 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.
For further information, please contact:
Nigel Farnfield, Managing Director
Tim Alsop, Technical Director
Tel: +44 (0) 700 4 KERBEROS / +44 (0) 700 4 537 237 / +44 (0) 208
757 8910
Fax: +44 (0) 207 681 3253
pr@cybersafe.ltd.uk
www.cybersafe.ltd.uk
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