BRACKNELL, United Kingdom, 10th September 2003 - RSA Security, the most trusted name in e-security(r), today announced that RSA Keon(r) digital certificate management software has been awarded "NSS Approved" status after a strong performance in the sixth edition of The NSS Group PKI Group Test.
The NSS Group is Europe's foremost independent security testing facility, and its PKI reports are considered the definitive guide to the PKI market. Previous editions of the report have had well in excess of 25,000 downloads.
The latest edition highlights the ease-of-use of the RSA Keon solution and its competitive pricing model, and says that the industry as a whole is set to benefit from the shrink-wrapped solutions now available to solve even the most complex PKI requirements.
"For once we are looking at a PKI system that reduces deployment problems and increases the probability of actually being used at the desktop, and for that RSA Security is to be commended," comments Bob Walder, Director of The NSS Group. "The rapid adoption of the Internet as a business communications medium has accelerated the requirement for robust and effective key management systems, and PKI is suddenly under the spotlight."
"RSA Security has gone further than any other vendors we have had in our Labs to integrate its PKI offerings with the most popular desktop and server applications, such as Outlook and Exchange Server. This is the type of integration that is necessary in order to make PKI usable from the moment it is installed," continues Mr. Walder.
The report also praised RSA Security for simplifying the administration process involved in rolling-out PKI across the enterprise. "RSA Security is one of the few to have addressed this complexity by making it as straightforward as possible for the administrator to configure and manage. RSA Keon software is almost trivial to install, destroying the myth that PKI has to be big, expensive and a technical battle in order to be of any use," Mr. Walder concludes.
RSA Keon CA 6.5 was tested alongside offerings from Baltimore, BT Ignite, Safelayer, Chrysalis-ITS, nCipher, AEP Systems and SSH Communications Security. A full copy of the report can be downloaded from The NSS Group at www.nss.co.uk/pki
For more information on the RSA Keon software suite please visit this link. To download the RSA Keon
6.5 Technical Overview by The NSS Group please go to www.rsasecurity.com/go/nss
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The NSS Group is Europe's foremost independent network and security testing facility. Based in the UK with separate security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France, The NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT, networking and security-related services to vendors and end-user organisations world-wide. The Group consists of two wholly-owned subsidiaries: NSS Network Testing Laboratories and Network Security Services.
Output from the labs, including detailed research reports, articles and white papers on the latest network and security technologies, are made available on the NSS web site at www.nss.co.uk
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