Entrust® USB Token Hailed as “Best Buy” from SC Magazine

New Entrust Hardware Authentication Product Enhances Secure Identity Management Solution Set

"The Best Buy is SC Magazine's top award and is only given to products which have been rated by our reviewers as outstanding across a wide range of criteria," said Rene Millman, Reviews Editor at SC Magazine. "The product must also raise the bar of the industry through groundbreaking features, excellent ease-of-use and fantastic value for money, as well as having good documentation and helpful support. One product is selected for this award in each group test - in this case, Entrust USB Token has come top of a group test featuring 13 other products."

Made commercially available in 4Q 2003, the Entrust USB Token is a comprehensive, scalable solution to help meet customer needs for stronger authentication to desktops, VPNs, WLANs, and Web portals, as well as providing encryption and digital signatures technology. USB tokens are a reliable, cost-efficient solution that addresses the need for strong authentication by adding a physical element - "something you have" - in order to establish user identity. The Entrust USB Token leverages Entrust PKI-based Digital IDs to allow for strong 2-factor authentication, data protection through encryption, and accountability with digital signatures.

According to reviewer Julian Ashbourn, "…usability is of course one of the perceived benefits of a well conceived USB token solution and Entrust have implemented their version of this idea very well, ensuring that the benefits of strong authentication, digital certificates and, where appropriate…data encryption, can be realized, without exposing the user to unnecessary complexity. In this product, we have a solid, standards based approach using proven technology that is versatile enough to satisfy the requirements of many, at a reasonable cost."

"The Entrust USB Token is a prime example of Entrust's dedication to bringing customer needs-driven technologies to market. Our goal was to give our customers a broad selection of authentication methods for their identity management strategy and we feel we have accomplished that goal," said Chris Voice, vice-president of Identity Management Solutions at Entrust, Inc. "We are very pleased that SC Magazine has validated this success just months after the product launch by awarding our Entrust USB Token top honors in the hardware authentication group test."

About SC Magazine
SC Magazine deals with all the critical issues relating to information security and is widely recognized as the global leader in delivering timely and accurate information on the threats to information security and the solutions available to remedy them across a complete media platform - Print, Online, and Events. www.scmagazine.com

About the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution
The Entrust USB Token is a new addition to Entrust's Secure Identity Management Solution portfolio, which helps customers to speed deployment of secure applications by seamlessly issuing and managing digital IDs as part of the overall provisioning process. The solution includes strong security, user provisioning, password management, audit and workflow components. Further information can be found at:  http://www.entrust.com/tokens/index.htm.

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