SECUDE finalizes partnership with Entrust
SECUDE for mySAP.com solution to support Entrust PKI for greater interoperability
06 Aug 2003
Darmstadt - SECUDE GmbH has signed an alliance partnership contract with Entrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU], a leader in securing digital identities and information. It has been agreed upon that the certificate-based SAP Security Solution of SECUDE will completely support Entrust Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) both client-based as well as server-based. Enterprises that have already installed an Entrust PKI can use it to integrate entire SAP system environments into their company wide security infrastructure in the simplest manner.
The client version of the SAP Security Solution by SECUDE has already been certified by Entrust in January of this year and has also been branded with the "Entrust Ready" logo. The Entrust Ready designation refers to products and services that have been reviewed for compatibility and inter-operability with Entrust software. As a result, the basis is established for an unlimited integration of SECUDE products in the Entrust Public Key Infrastructure. The partnership contract signed by SECUDE and Entrust brings about great advantages for both enterprises. Users of the Entrust PKI gain access to the SAP-certified security solution SECUDE for mySAP.com.
"With Entrust, we were able to not only gain the pioneer enterprise for Public Key Infrastructure, but also simultaneously attain the world market leader as our partner. Along-side Entrust and SECUDE, our international customers in particular will profit from the close collaboration. The colla-boration with Entrust is another milestone for the consistent implementation of our strategy. This provides the continuous development of interoperability of our products for Public Key Infrastructures and in consequence offers our customers a long-term protection of investment. This results in enormous prospects for us, allowing us to greatly improve marketing of our SAP Security Solutions internationally," says Harald Giehl, Managing Director of SECUDE GmbH. "We were already able to initiate our first discussions with international customers as a result of the partnership with Entrust," states Harald Giehl.
"Entrust is pleased to be working closely with SECUDE, who have established themselves as a recognized provider of leading-edge security solutions designed specifically for SAP," said Leah MacMillan, vice-president of desktop solutions at Entrust, Inc. "By achieving Entrust Ready certification for its solution, SECUDE enables our customers to maximize their return on investment by seamlessly extending security to an SAP environment."
SECUDE for mySAP.com protects complete SAP environments and furthermore offers Single Sign-On for all SAP users. This enables users a secure login on various SAP applications with only one password. The authentication with SAP is performed based on X.509v3 certificates. Digital signatures employed this way ensure both the identity of users and the integrity of data. Moreover, secure and recognized encryption proce-dures ensure the confidentiality of information between all SAP components. By way of the seamless integration of SECUDE for mySAP.com into the Entrust PKI, features such as the cross-certification, digital signatures as well as their verification are completely supported.
About SECUDE:
SECUDE GmbH is an internationally leading provider of standard software for certificates and Smartcard based IT Security. Together with its subsidiary company, iT_SEC Deutschland GmbH, SECUDE offers soft- and hardware-based security software products for business applications as well as web applications in the desktop and server area. The high quality IT Security products offered by SECUDE protect electronic business processes in the best way, increase user acceptance and as a result substantially contribute to the reduction of expenses. As a long term partner of SAP AG, SECUDE is a worldwide leader in the area of security of SAP system environments. The security applications SECUDE for mySAP.com certified by SAP AG are the reference today for SAP Security. Additionally, SECUDE offers its international customers extensive services. SECUDE develops solutions together with its customers for the optimisation of security of electronic business processes and is available to offer services in the area of IT Security.