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January 18, 1999
Web Security Products Get Spotlight
Filed at 2:13 p.m. EST
By Amy K. Larsen for InformationWeek, CMPnet
New products to secure electronic-commerce and Web applications will debut
next week, including directory services for storing user authorization
information and a system that limits access to Web content.
Netscape is launching a version of its Directory Server with enhanced
scalability and performance. The ability to store information on tens of
millions of users is essential to security now that huge numbers of users
want access to Web content, said David Weiden, vice president of directory
and security for Netscape. Directory Server 4.0 holds more than 50 million
user entries, up from 10 million in version 3.0, and can handle 5,000
queries per second, up from 1,000, Weiden says. The server will be
available immediately at $2.50 a user.
For New York insurer American International Group Inc., version 4.0 will
improve communication. "The performance improvement will allow us to
communicate electronically much more," said Robert Guido, a vice president
at AIG. AIG uses the 3.0 edition as a central data repository for an
extranet used by its brokers and agents. Agents download forms but must
return them by fax or mail. With 4.0, the extranet will become two-way,
Guido says.
Netscape also has a new version of its system to manage digital
certificates, used to encrypt and decrypt messages sent over the Internet.
The Netscape Certificate Management System 4.0, available next quarter for
$10 a user, will support millions of geographically dispersed users.
Netscape's products are part of the booming public key infrastructure
market. Revenue from PKI apps is expected to top $1 billion by 2003,
according to UBS Securities Inc.
In other rollouts, VeriSign Inc. will ship the second generation of its
PKI platform and will add partners to its network of digital- certificate
service providers. GTE CyberTrust will introduce a PKI accelerator program
that combines technology and services to let companies quickly deploy
digital certificates for desktop applications such as secure Web access
and file encryption.
Xcert International Inc. will roll out a PKI suite that will scale to
hundreds of thousands of users and support cryptography for handheld
applications. Hewlett-Packard will introduce a Web authorization system
for screening access to Web site content. HP's Praesidium DomainGuard and
DomainGuard Rules fit into Netscape Web servers and link to an LDAP
directory. DomainGuard, which provides Web object security, will ship in
February starting at $2,450 for a 100-user license. DomainGuard Rules
supplies transaction-level security and will ship in the spring at $3,950
for 100 users.
Last week, Shym Technology Inc. unveiled PKEnable, an application that
lets SAP, PeopleSoft, Lotus, and other apps snap into PKI systems. A beta
supporting 100 users is available for $10,000.
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