Entrust in the News

Congress Set to Crack Down on Spyware
Caron Carlson, eWeek
"The big issue is: Are we regulating technology here, or are we regulating bad behavior?" said Dan Burton, senior vice president of government affairs at Entrust Inc.. "The concern of the software industry is that there are lots of [spywarelike] activities that are perfectly legitimate. We have to get to the dark and bloody crossroads where technology and policy meet."

Entrust completes acquisition of AmikaNow!
Dan Ilett, SC Magazine
Identity and access management firm Entrust has completed its purchase of anti-spam and e-mail filtering firm AmikaNow!. Entrust said it expects that the acquisition will improve its product range for compliance with regulatory guidelines, such as Sarbanes-Oxley.

Report Faults Cyber-Security
Jonathan Krim, Washington Post
"If we are at war, as Bush and [Homeland Security Secretary Tom] Ridge say we are... based on this report, we are clearly not on a war footing on cyber-security, or in DHS," said F. William Conner, chief executive of Entrust Inc., a Texas cyber-security company. "I read about the progress, but they've got the wrong measuring stick. Progress has to be measured against external risk."

U.S. Departments of State and Energy and the State of Illinois Expand Secure Information-Sharing Capabilities
Government Technology
The FBCA is a multi-agency information-sharing infrastructure that ties together the newly cross-certified organizations and current government participants. With this announcement, six of the eight cross-certified organizations sharing information via the FBCA are utilizing Entrust technology (Energy, State, State of Illinois, Treasury, NASA and USDA-NFC).

Czech Telecom taps Entrust secure ID system
RDSL Europe
Czech Telecom has added the Entrust Security Identity Management Solution (ESIMS) from Entrust, digital ID and information security company, for its employees' enterprise SSO. Czech Telecom has thus boosted desktop access security, raised user productivity and reduced help desk costs.

The Link Between Information Security and Corporate Governance
Bill Conner & Orson Swindle, ComputerWorld
Information security, though often viewed as a set of technical issues, must be embraced as a corporate governance responsibility that involves risk management, reporting controls, testing and training, and executive accountability.

Identity Management
Steve Neville, European Reseller
"Identity management is a security solution that addresses the need to deploy and manage a broad range of identities whilst always ensuring accountability and privacy. It involves the comprehensive management and administration of user permissions, privileges and individual identity data across complex, heterogeneous environments."

XML Comes of Age for Data Exchange
Joseph Goedert, Health Data Management
"Entrust Inc., a Dallas-based vendor of data security software, used Secure Assertion Markup Language-called SAML and based on XML's data formatting-when developing version 7.0 of its GetAccess identity management software. Entrust uses SAML as a standard way of exchanging "federated" identities in cases where persons from different organizations have access to parts of each other's disparate computer systems."

Clerical Medical Europe Deploying Entrust GetAccess™ to Secure Financial Services Portal
Banking & Technology
"By virtue of its open and flexible architecture, Entrust GetAccess is enabling Clerical Medical to rapidly and securely deploy their Web applications into the E-solution infrastructure, leveraging a common authentication and authorisation framework."