A plan to bring digital certificates to the mainframe this week won the support of leading PKI software vendors. Baltimore, CyberTrust, Entrust, Verisign and Xcert announced at the RSA Conference 2000 that they would make their software...
Security specialist nCipher has picked up a contract to supply Microsoft's Information Technology Group with internal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services.nCipher's nShield hardware security module will be used to provide secure storage and...
The java scripted SEE builds on nCipher's nShield and nForce product range used to generate faster throughput in secure web servers and PKI applications. Visa will enable its smartcard holders access to online services using nCipher as a trusted...
Andrew Philips, senior analyst at Gartner-Dataquest and author of a report on the smartcard market published this week, claimed PKI companies have been playing too hard to get. It is not a surprising move from Verisign as IT directors are fed up...
PKI is being used only by three per cent of FTSE500 companies, according to a research published by IT consultancy Detica. Companies are not deploying PKI because they are still waiting to see which type of security technology is worth investing in...
Government IT agencies have announced success in getting the products of disparate PKI (public key infrastructure) vendors to interoperate, removing one of the major barriers to increased adoption of the technology.