RSA Keon® Certificate Authority Designed to Provide Seamless Integration with Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Outlook Clients
Bedford, MA— In support of its commitment to make the deployment and use of digital certificates easy for conducting secure and cost-effective e-business, RSA Security (Nasdaq: RSAS) today announced that its RSA Keon® digital certificate management software is designed to provide seamless integration support for secure email with Microsoft® Exchange® Server and Microsoft Outlook® clients. RSA Keon digital certificate management software continues to play an important role in securing e-business processes, both as a scaleable method for strong authentication of users, services and applications as well as a key enabler of integrity for digital information on enterprise networks. This is the first in a series of enhancements over the coming months to RSA Keon Certificate Authority (CA) software.
RSA Keon CA software is designed to enable end users to encrypt and digitally sign important email communications - including any type of attachments - so that only intended recipients can access the message. Email is an instrumental and convenient part of our business lives, but it is not without some inherent risks. Unprotected, e-mail messages can be opened, forwarded or tampered with by unauthorized people. By seamlessly integrating RSA Keon digital certificate management software with the Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook applications, RSA Security has helped ensure the confidentiality and data integrity of information exchanged between parties.
The new enhancements to RSA Keon digital certificate management software enable organizations to:
- Implement an easy to deploy, seamlessly integrated secure email solution across the enterprise that requires no client software other than a standard Microsoft Outlook email client.
- Automatically set configuration for signing and encrypting e-mails when users enroll for certificates. This ease of use feature eliminates the need for users to configure email clients and denote which certificates are to be used for signing and encryption.
- Insert sign and encrypt buttons on the toolbar, thereby enabling ease of use functionality in terms of signing and/or encrypting email communications.
- Publish certificates into the Microsoft Exchange Server Global Address List (GAL), enabling secure email to be sent from any user in the system to other users without any prior interaction.
With RSA Keon CA software, organizations can define and self-administer their own security procedures, trust relationships, certificate formats and rules for certificate life cycles that serve as a foundation for corporate security policies. For example, companies are using RSA Keon software in various applications today such as digital signing to enforce contracts, smart cards, cable broadband devices and to securely authenticate users in a VPN environment.
Pricing and Availability
The new enhancements to RSA Keon CA software are available immediately. RSA Security supports a broad range of Microsoft solutions for email including Outlook 2000 and 1998; Exchange Server 5.5 and Exchange Directory; as well as Exchange 2000 and Active Directory. For more information about the product or the RSA Keon product line, please visit http://www.rsasecurity.com/products/keon/ or call 1-877-RSA-4900.
About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security®, helps organizations build trusted e-business processes through its RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust® Web access management, RSA BSAFE® encryption and RSA Keon digital certificate management product families. With approximately one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than 12 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.
