BEDFORD, Mass.— RSA Security Inc. (NASDAQ: RSAS) today announced further advancement of its web services security strategy — work that stretches across its extensive product lines and embraces a broad set of partners with certified solutions. This announcement offers customers a comprehensive web services security solution that is delivered through a variety of best-of-breed products which include RSA Security’s authentication, authorization and validation solutions, as well as through tight integration with technology partners, such as XML gateway solutions. Partners in this offering include XML gateway leaders DataPower, Forum Systems, Reactivity, Vordel and Westbridge.

“Clearly, a well thought out web services security strategy has identity management at its core, with an eye toward efficient and effective authorization, authentication, audit trail and policy enforcement,” said Jason Lewis, vice president of product management and marketing at RSA Security. “Open, certified solutions are key to our customers’ ability to implement quickly, upgrade successfully and integrate across their organizations — scalability that often stretches outside the enterprise walls. We’re happy to announce this wide range of partnerships with leading web services security vendors today, providing our customers with a wealth of options as we work together to satisfy their identity management and web services security needs.”

RSA Security offers a variety of products, capabilities and services that support web services and which meet the requirements for integrated and coordinated policy management and enforcement architecture, including:

• RSA ClearTrust® software for centralized management of identity and access policy and lifecycle management;
• RSA® Federated Identity Manager, for distributed management of identity and policy information;
• RSA BSAFE® software for centralized or federated data privacy policy; and
• RSA Keon® software for digital certificate issuance and validation.

The RSA Secured® web services gateway partners including, DataPower, Forum Systems, Reactivity, Vordel and Westbridge, offer complementary technology that centralizes identity, access and network policy enforcement, including schema validation, cryptographic acceleration, rogue or malicious XML message protection, and message routing capabilities. RSA ClearTrust software coupled with an RSA Secured web services gateway partner solution offers fortified security, easier maintainability, greater productivity for administrators and scalability inside and across the organization.

Eugene Kuznetsov, chairman and CTO at DataPower said, “Enterprise-class web service security requires an end-to-end solution, including strong access control, centralized ID management, distributed management of policies, federated data privacy and trusted digital certificate services. DataPower has certified its XS40 XML Security Gateway with the entire RSA Security server product line that includes RSA ClearTrust software, RSA Federated Identity Manager, RSA BSAFE software and RSA Keon software to provide customers with a comprehensive web services security solution.”

“Large corporations require that their web services security solutions are flexible enough to meet the ever changing needs of the enterprise,” said Hugh Carroll, vice president of marketing at Vordel. “Vordel’s products allow RSA ClearTrust software users to leverage their identity management investment to enforce identity-based security policies rules on XML communications throughout the enterprise. Security policies contained in RSA ClearTrust software can now be applied to XML traffic, using VordelSecure, Vordel’s XML Gateway product. In addition, Vordel’s XML Security Server, VordelDirector, allows access control policies to be applied pervasively across an XML network such as an Service Oriented Architecture. Working together with RSA Security in the European marketplace has saved our mutual customers time and money, and provided them with the confidence to benefit from the opportunities presented by web services.”

“Together with RSA Security, Westbridge Technology provides key technologies for deploying enterprise-class web services,” said Tom Ryan, CEO and President of Westbridge Technology. “Certified integration with RSA Federated Identity Management, RSA Keon software and RSA ClearTrust software will assure end-to-end security, ease of deployment and coordinated policy management for web services. This will allow our joint customers to quickly and cost-effectively deploy services-based architectures, not only within their own domains, but in cross-domain Service Oriented Architectures.”

Availability
The RSA ClearTrust Ready capabilities are available independently through each vendor, and are seamlessly supported within RSA ClearTrust software. Additional information about each of these certifications is available at http://rsasecurity.agora.com/rsasecured/.

About the RSA Secured Partner Program
The RSA Secured Partner Program brings added assurance to customers that the products they are buying are interoperable with industry leading products, helping them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. This ten-year old program, with more than 300 partners, reflects RSA Security’s commitment to providing interoperability and mutual vendor support to customers using RSA Security’s web access management, two-factor authentication, digital certificate management or encryption solutions.

About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc. helps organizations protect private information and manage the identities of people and applications accessing and exchanging that information. RSA Security’s portfolio of solutions - including identity & access management, secure mobile & remote access, secure enterprise access and secure transactions - are all designed to provide the most seamless e-security experience in the market. Our strong reputation is built on our history of ingenuity, leadership, proven technologies and our more than 14,000 customers around the globe. Together with more than 1,000 technology and integration partners, RSA Security inspires confidence in everyone to experience the power and promise of the Internet. For more information, please visit www.rsasecurity.com.