Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Bolsters Internet Security with Entrust
Extended deployment offers enhanced collaboration within Department of Energy
04 Feb 2003
DALLAS - Entrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU], a leading global provider of Internet security solutions and services, today announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of nine multi-program national laboratories within the Department of Energy (DOE), has successfully deployed a suite of Entrust software solutions to set the stage for greater collaboration with other DOE labs, agencies and partners moving forward.
PNNL strengthened its security environment with the addition of Entrust Entelligence?, Entrust Authority? and Entrust TruePass?, an integrated portfolio of software products that offer leading-edge identification, digital signature, privacy and security management for both enterprise and Web portal applications. This decision follows the DOE's long-standing relationship with Entrust, as well as the October 2002 deployment of a government-wide license of Entrust's digital identity solution for document management, as part of the DOE's e-Government Strategic Action Plan into cross-departmental information and service delivery.
In fact, PNNL becomes the first DOE site to deploy Entrust digital identities to all staff. The lab's 3,800 employees can now securely exchange email communications, encrypt files, and use digital signatures within business applications, including digitally signing their weekly timecards. PNNL is also working on using Entrust identities to authenticate access to collaborative Web applications in a transparent and fully automated way. These secure applications ultimately enable users to increase productivity and share information while driving overall IT costs down.
"Our decision to leverage Entrust's solutions to secure the Lab's security infrastructure was premised on the Department of Energy's objective of establishing a secure e-services platform between DOE agencies, partners and other Federal government departments," said John McCoy, program manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "We wanted a solution that could satisfy our in-house security requirements, but could also scale up and interact seamlessly with other applications and business units outside of our walls as this vision becomes a reality."
"The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory should be commended for its commitment to securing its internal business processes, and for its vision in establishing an extensible framework that will enable secure collaboration with its partners, other DOE labs as well as other government departments and agencies," said Ian Curry, vice president and chief marketing officer at Entrust, Inc. "This announcement is indicative of a larger movement by government toward highly collaborative applications enabled by Entrust."
About Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy research facility and delivers breakthrough science and technology in the areas of environment, energy, health, fundamental sciences and national security. Battelle, based in Columbus, Ohio, has operated the laboratory for DOE since 1965. For more information, please visit http://www.pnl.gov/.