Message #18 From:
Stock News Bot Date: October 27, 2006 06:00:00 AM
AXL News Gemalto Announces Product Integration with Microsoft for Digital Security Solutions
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gemalto, a world leader in digital security, today announced integration
for its .NET smart cards in Microsoft Certificate Life Cycle Manager
(CLM). As a result, customers will be able to streamline deployment and
management of Gemalto smart cards using CLM. The two companies
demonstrated CLM and Gemalto .NET smart cards this week at RSA Europe,
and will demonstrate at several upcoming events including Microsoft
Tech-Ed IT Forum, CARTES 2006 and Infosecurity.
“Personalized Gemalto .NET cards make digital
interactions more convenient and secure for individuals, and ensure the
identities of the card holders during a transaction,”
said Marvin Tansley, marketing manager for the network identity
solutions group for Gemalto North America.
CLM is an identity management solution that helps lower the costs
associated with digital certificates and smart cards. CLM enables
organizations to centrally manage a certificate-based infrastructure
through simplified administrative processes and deployment.
“Organizations are increasingly turning to
smart card technology to protect their business data and enhance network
security, privacy and identity management -- and it’s
critical that the industry work together to ensure businesses have a way
to centrally manage these environments,” said
John Chirapurath, director of identity and access product management at
Microsoft. “Microsoft is pleased to work with
Gemalto to achieve compatibility between Gemalto’s
.NET card and Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager.”
Microsoft was the first enterprise to deploy Gemalto .NET smart cards to
tens of thousands of employees.
The microprocessor-based Gemalto .NET card runs a streamlined version of
the .NET framework. It provides full cryptographic capabilities,
customizable two-factor authentication and support for on-card services
seamlessly within the Windows environment. Support for Gemalto’s
.NET smart cards is integrated into Windows Vista, making smart cards
easy to deploy and seamless to use without requiring any additional
software or middleware. The same support is also available by download
from the Microsoft Download Center for 2000, XP and Server 2003.
Enterprises that do want to create customized applications will find it
easy to do, because developers use standard Microsoft .NET programming
tools and interfaces with Gemalto .NET smart cards.
Microsoft CLM streamlines the provisioning, configuration, and
management of digital certificates and smart cards, while increasing
security through strong, multifactor authentication technology. As a Web
application, it can grow and scale without requiring software
modifications.
Gemalto .NET smart cards for testing can be ordered online at http://www.netsolutions.gemalto.com,
and the CLM beta 2 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/clm.
About Gemalto
Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO) is a leader in digital security
with pro forma 2005 annual revenues of $2.2 billion, operations in 120
countries and 11,000 employees including 1,500 R&D engineers. The
company's solutions make personal digital interactions secure and easy
in a world where everything of value -- from money to entertainment to
identities -- is increasingly represented as bits and bytes communicated
over networks.
Gemalto thrives on creating and deploying secure platforms, portable and
secure forms of software in highly personal objects like smart cards,
SIMs, e-passports, readers and tokens. More than a billion people
worldwide use the company's products and services for
telecommunications, banking, e-government, identity management,
multimedia content, digital rights management, IT security and other
applications. Gemalto was formed in June 2006 by the combination of
Axalto and Gemplus International S.A. For more information please visit www.gemalto.com.
