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Breaking News - Security:

Entrust Solution Delivers Seamless Strong Authentication

Entrust Inc, a global leader in securing digital identities and information, announced that through integration with leading applications and technology from Citrix Systems, Oracle and SAP, and through integration and bundling of Sun Microsystem's Identity Manager, the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution provides end customers with Web-based strong authentication. Strong authentication enables customers to expand the deployment and use of these solutions by protecting sensitive information and transactions from unauthorized access. This new release of Entrust TruePass software builds on the commitment of Entrust and its partners to provide customers with a tightly integrated Secure Identity Management solution.

"The ability to integrate strong authentication into our portal environment was a critical requirement," said Ken Edgecombe, executive director of the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL). "Using Entrust TruePass, HPCVL has been able to develop and is deploying a Secure Grid Portal that will protect Intellectual Property and help researchers meet compliance and regulatory guidelines while keeping complexity to a minimum."

"Partnerships are critical to Entrust's success," said Chris Voice, vice president of Identity Management Solutions at Entrust. "The latest release of Entrust TruePass is an excellent example of how Entrust and its partners are working to provide customers with a tightly integrated secure identity management solution that includes key elements like strong authentication that our customers are demanding."

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To help customers speed their deployment, Entrust and some of its partners have published integration guides that illustrate how to add Entrust TruePass security to their sensitive applications. These integration guides may be found at www.entrust.com/services/briefs.htm.

"Citrix is focused on providing secure, single-point access to applications and information from any location, device or network connection," said Josh Drachman, director of Corporate Development for Citrix. "The ability to easily add higher levels of security gives our customers the flexibility to increase data protection."

"There is tremendous customer value in the ability to easily add strong authentication to a Web application as a part of a company's secure identity management strategy," said John Heimann, director of Security Product Management at Oracle Corp. "As our joint customers extend beyond the enterprise boundaries, Entrust TruePass will help allow secure access to our customers' sensitive data."

"Through our alliance, Sun and Entrust help provide our customers market- leading identity management solutions that are essential to creating and managing secure environments," said Mike Turner, vice president and general manager of identity management solutions at Sun. "We look forward to continuing our strategic relationship with Entrust and driving customer-focused solutions through the integration of Sun identity management technologies as part of Entrust TruePass."