Security Industry Leader Will Offer Expertise in User Authentication, Access Rights Management, Data Privacy and Transaction Integrity
Bedford, MA— RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS) today announced it intends to join the Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) as a charter member, and plans to work with industry leaders to create an open, federated solution for online identity. Other charter members of the Liberty Alliance project include: Bank of America, Bell Canada Enterprises, Cingular Wireless, Dun and Bradstreet, GM, Intuit, NTT DoCoMo, Sabre, Sun Microsystems, Travelocity and VeriSign. As a leading vendor of e-security solutions, RSA Security will provide the Liberty Alliance with expertise in the critical areas of user authentication and identity management, access rights management, data privacy and transaction integrity.
"With more than ten million users of RSA Security's authentication solutions, including consumers, business partners and employees, identity management is at the core of our business," said Art Coviello, CEO and president at RSA Security. "RSA Security is committed to the ideals of the Liberty Alliance, and we are looking forward to working with our new partners to develop and promote the standards, processes and products required to deliver a truly open, federated solution for online identity."
RSA Security has a long history of working successfully to author, develop and promote the adoption of open standards for the information security industry, most notably the public-key cryptography standards (PKCS). The PKCS documents have become widely referenced and implemented as part of many formal and de facto standards, including ANSI X9, PKIX, SET, S/MIME, and SSL.
About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project (www.projectliberty.org) is an organization being formed to create an open, federated, single sign-on identity solution for the digital economy via any device connected to the Internet. Membership is open to all commercial and non-commercial organizations.
About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security™, helps organizations build secure, trusted foundations for e-business through its RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust® authorization, RSA BSAFE® encryption and RSA Keon® digital certificate management systems. With more than one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than ten million RSA SecurID authentication users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the online economy. RSA Security can be reached at www.rsasecurity.com.
