Entrust Honored by Frost & Sullivan For Advanced Artificial Intelligence Technologies

Frost & Sullivan’s 2004 Technology Innovation Award in the field of artificial intelligence-enabled software technologies goes to AmikaNow! and Entrust

The Entrust-owned technology delivers a highly sophisticated content analysis tool that can automatically analyze and categorize e-mail messages and documents based on the context and meaning of their contents, not simply pre-defined word lists. One of the advantages of an AI-driven context scanning technology is that it does not require constant updates, and the technology can differentiate between various uses of a word; e.g., it can distinguish the difference between the clinical use of the word “breast” in “breast cancer” and a pornographic reference. Additionally, policies can be customized to suit the corporate environment and can be automatically enforced at the boundary to help customers reduce business risk and better comply with privacy regulations and securities laws. For example, in an e-mail environment this technology can be used to intercept and forward sensitive messages to a boundary encryption server, warn employees about their use of inappropriate or offensive language, or filter spam on incoming messages.

According to Amreetha Vijayakumar, Research Analyst with Frost & Sullivan: “This award is bestowed upon a company that has carried out new research resulting in innovations that have the promise to make significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change and competitive posture. The AmikaNow! technology, acquired by Entrust, can help open new avenues in securing e-mail, filtering out potentially dangerous content, and ultimately helping to enhance corporate productivity. This award was therefore presented to AmikaNow! and Entrust for achievements in the quality and depth of their research and development, as well as the vision and drive that enabled such strong technology.”

The capabilities of the Entrust-owned artificial intelligence technologies further strengthens and expands the portfolio of products within the Entrust® Secure Messaging and Entrust® Secure Data Solutions. This will help Entrust to provide enterprise and government customers with comprehensive content analysis and risk mitigation tools based on award-winning technology for improved compliance with corporate e-mail policies and regulatory guidelines such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Canadian federal government’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

“Intensive work over the years has culminated in the development of a powerful, unique artificial intelligence engine and we are pleased to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan for these technology achievements,” said Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima, Senior Advisor, Content Analysis and Compliance at Entrust. “This award reinforces Entrust’s strategy to help customers implement security solutions that include high-quality compliance and anti-spam technologies in order to provide a holistic security architecture, and strongly positions Entrust in both the data privacy and e-mail compliance markets.”

Recently, Entrust has been granted U.S. Patent 6,499,021, "Apparatus and method for interpreting and intelligently managing electronic messages", and has other patents pending in the areas of document analysis, summarization, and security.

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