Entrust Grants Entrust-Ready Status to Intel Packet Protect Software and the Intel PRO/100 S Family of Security Adapters

Business Wire, Nov 22, 2000

Business Editors

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2000

Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTU), a global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business, today announced that Intel Corporation has been awarded Entrust-Ready(TM) status for several of its network security products.

Intel's Entrust-Ready qualification is based on rigorous testing of Intel products, for encrypting and decrypting network traffic, together with the award-winning Entrust/PKI(TM) (public-key infrastructure) software for authenticating users via digital certificates. Together, this solution will provide users with more confidence that only authorized people will have access to critical and confidential business information traveling over corporate networks.

Those products granted Entrust-Ready status include the Intel(R) Packet Protect software and the new family of high performance Intel(R) PRO/100 S security adapters for mobile PCs, desktop PCs and servers. The Intel Packet Protect software is a solution that protects data confidentiality and authenticity utilizing Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) encryption of Internet Protocol (IP) traffic on local area networks (LANs) within a company's firewall. The Intel PRO/100 S network adapters work with Intel Packet Protect software by offloading encryption and decryption activities from the host PC or server processor, creating up to a three-fold boost in performance.

"Increasingly, security breaches are occurring within the local-area network itself. Intel's network security products preserve the confidentiality and integrity of corporate data transmitted over a LAN - while maintaining the wire-speed performance necessary for the Internet economy." said Tim Dunn, general manager of the LAN Access Division at Intel. "Entrust/PKI software complements our offerings with a convenient yet powerful solution to help ensure that only authorized users access the LAN in the first place."

"Our experience in delivering the industry's first choice for PKI authentication is that the more convenient it is for users, the more likely they are to follow best practices for securing online business interactions," said Paul Doscher, senior vice president of marketing at Entrust. "The Entrust/PKI solution addresses this need by letting people confirm their identities through easy-to-use digital certificates, which act like electronic passports. Intel adds another critical part to the equation through the industry's leading suite of products that enable users to protect their data without compromising the fast response times they've come to expect."

Solution Brings Trust to Corporate Networks

Together, the Entrust/PKI software and the Entrust-Ready version of the Intel(R) Packet Protect software and Intel(R) PRO/100 S family of security adapters provide companies with several benefits in bringing trust to communications and transactions across corporate LANs:

--Verification of the identities of people sending and receiving
information through the use of Entrust/PKI software.
--Confidentiality and integrity of corporate information. Intel
Packet Protect software and the Intel PRO/100 S family of security
adapters encrypt data as it leaves a computer and decrypt information
when it reaches its destination, making it unreadable as it travels
across the LAN.
--Convenience through easy-to-use Entrust/PKI digital certificates
and fast performance enabled by Entrust/PKI software, scaleable to
support up to millions of users, and the Intel(R) PRO/100 S family of
security adapters for moving encryption off the main computer
processor.
--Cost- and time-effective administrative management. With the
Entrust/PKI solution, network administrators do not need to travel to
each computer to distribute keys, enabling secure network management
is made more efficient.

About Entrust Technologies

Entrust Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: ENTU) is a global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business relationships by securing and managing the transactions that constitute e-business. Through the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of trusted e-business infrastructure solutions, Entrust Technologies enables customers to secure their B2B, B2C and internal enterprise transactions and communications, as well as to manage the e-business portals through which these transactions take place. Today, Entrust serves more than 1,500 customers worldwide. Entrust Technologies pioneered the public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions that provide security for business transactions and communications over the Internet. Entrust Technologies has R&D labs in Silicon Valley, California; Ottawa, Canada; and Zurich, Switzerland as well as offices around the world. For additional company information please visit www.entrust.com.

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Inc. in the United States and other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Technologies Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks of Entrust Technologies. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.