OpenTrust And Aladdin Announce Collaboration

Published 5th April 2007

The Two Companies Form An Alliance To Producing A Single, Global Trust Platform For Enterprises...

IDEALX, publisher of OpenTrust™, the market’s #1 Open Source Trust and Security Infrastructure and Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALDN), the leader in Digital Rights Management, strong authentication and content security solutions, today announced their collaboration and guarantee interoperability of their respective solutions. The combined offering will be presented at Infosecurity Europe, 24-26 April 2007 in London.

The partnership combines the most advantageous aspects of the solutions proposed by two of the leading publishers in the information systems security market. IDEALX and Aladdin guarantee full interoperability of their solutions for smart card and/or USB drive management, Single Sign On and PKI implementation.

“OpenTrust offers associates a PIN code enabled smart card, providing a solution that is both highly secure and easy to use. This PIN code method of securing of credit/debit card payments is a security concept familiar to end users in the UK,” declared Olivier Guilbert, CEO of IDEALX. “In addition, the alliance between OpenTrust and Aladdin provides a global infrastructure that is easy to maintain.”

Innovations of IDEALX and Aladdin along with the combination of Aladdin’s eToken and IDEALX’s OpenTrust™ suite, form a chain of trust with a guaranteed high level of security, a tool vital to the global security of the information systems of large companies. As part of their agreement, the two publishers propose an integrated solution, which combines the securing of data with eToken, the management of token distribution(Card Management System) and a PKI. This solution guarantees an extremely secure environment for authentication, encryption and digital signatures.

Aladdin and IDEALX: Combining the strengths of solutions:

· Aladdin eToken is the world leader for USB-based authentication solutions: Strong user authentication and password management solutions enable organisations to easily and efficiently expand business opportunities with secure network access, to improve data security through reinforced encryption and digital signatures and to lower costs and vulnerabilities through efficient password management.

· OpenTrust, IDEALX’s security and trust infrastructure is a secure solution for managing the life-cycle of certificates and cryptographic tokens in smart cards. OPENTRUST-SCM, the OpenTrust smart card manager, is a solution for deploying tokens and multi-use smart cards (PKI, SSO, Access Control, Electronic purse etc.) throughout enterprises, including those with decentralised structures. Such services include issuance & renewal, card replacement, remote unlocking as well as the secure management of compromised cards by alerting all concerned applications. A truly integrated strong authentication and encryption SSO solution, the OpenTrust infrastructure also provides enterprises with digital signature and proof management solutions.

To deploy legally recognised authentication, encryption and signature certificates, companies must use a PKI combined with a solution for managing the life-cycle of the devices on which the certificates are stored. To this end, several key European accounts have already chosen solutions proposed by Aladdin and IDEALX to guarantee the security and non-repudiation of transactions.

“This alliance will further the amount of enterprises choosing our solutions as we continue to focus on products that combine the latest technologies with convenience and ease of use for administrators and end users alike,” added Julien Champagne, Responsible of Enterprise Department at Aladdin France.

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