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January 12, 1998, Issue: 697
Section: News & Analysis

Shoring Up Its Portfolio

Rutrell Yasin

Entrust Technologies aims to enhance its security lineup with a slew of partnerships to be announced today at the RSA Data Security Conference. The Nortel subsidiary offers a family of products that let companies deploy public key infrastructures, secure desktop files, issue Web certificates, and encrypt and digitally sign E-commerce transactions over the Internet. A strategic cross-development, cross-licensing and cross-distribution agreement with Symantec Corp. will result in a suite of security applications for desktop computers. The first phase of the partnership will bear fruit in the first quarter with file and folder boot encryption, antivirus and secure screen-saver tools. Partnerships with TimeStep Corp. and Milkyway Networks Corp. will yield remote access security tools. Meanwhile, Entrust will look to shore up its single sign-on solutions through relationships with Axent Technologies Inc., CyberSafe Corp., Gradient Technologies Inc. and Memco Software Ltd., according to a company spokesperson. In addition, Entrust will launch a program called Insource, which will let users become their own certificate authorities instead of outsourcing the task. Entrust will provide the personnel to assist users in this effort.