Securant Technologies Announces Support for IBM WebSphere Application Server

Business Wire, Sept 18, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2000

Securant Teams with IBM to Provide Secure Access Management

for Protecting e-Business Applications and Services

Securant Technologies, the access management company that secures eBusiness, today announced that it has joined IBM's (NYSE: IBM) PartnerWorld for Developers Program as an advanced member. Through the relationship, Securant's ClearTrust SecureControl product will provide integrated support for IBM WebSphere(1) Application Server, a key part of the WebSphere software platform. The relationship will provide businesses an integrated and secure e-business infrastructure based on Securant's ClearTrust SecureControl access management system and the IBM WebSphere Application Server. The combined technologies help speed time to market for e-business applications and provide a more secure, personalized experience for end-users.

"We are pleased to work with Securant to provide Global 2000 companies with additional options that deliver the scalability and security they need to conduct business with customers, partners and employees," said Paraic Sweeney, vice president of marketing, WebSphere software platform, IBM.

Some of the Global 2000 companies currently relying on ClearTrust SecureControl to maintain granular access control over e-business systems and provide users a seamless Web experience include Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Thomson Financial. ClearTrust SecureControl provides a tightly integrated, highly scalable and easy to manage solution for providing secure and transparent user access to WebSphere-based resources.

ClearTrust SecureControl delivers a complete access management infrastructure for fast deployment of e-business applications through:

-- Multi-domain single sign-on that allows users to securely move between
linked applications and resources within a company, affiliate sites, between
trading partners, and in Application Service Provider (ASP) environments.

-- Rules-based authorization that enables enterprises and service providers to
use natural language business rules to centralize, automatically assign and
dynamically adjust access permissions based on a user's profile (role, account
balance, subscription level, etc.), giving users personalized view of
information.

-- Internet scale throughput performance that was measured in independent tests
as providing fours times more user logins per minute than the nearest
competitor.

-- Virtual Business Units that allow time-consuming user administration
workloads to be distributed on three levels: within a company (across
departments, divisions, etc.); externally to Extranet partners and customers;
and to individual users/subscribers via a self-service function.

-- Real-time monitoring of application level behavior in order to proactively
prevent application misuse and fraud.

"We are pleased to be working with IBM to provide an integrated access management solution for the WebSphere software platform for e-business," said Eric Olden, chief technology officer, Securant Technologies. "The combination of ClearTrust SecureControl and WebSphere Application Server will provide IBM's Global 2000 customers with a complete, highly scalable and secure infrastructure upon which they can confidently host their most demanding and sensitive e-business applications."

About IBM WebSphere Software Platform for e-business

IBM (NYSE: IBM) WebSphere's customizable family of products provides the industry's most scalable e-business software foundation and application services, and delivers a flexible and open platform on which to build next-generation e-business applications. Based on WebSphere Application Servers, which deliver common, best-of-breed, standards-based platform services, and MQSeries to integrate core business processes, data and applications, the WebSphere software platform supports business applications from simple Web publishing through enterprise-scale transaction processing. Through modular, integrated application services, such as Lotus Domino for rich collaboration capabilities and WebSphere Commerce Suite for high-performance, scalable commerce sites, the WebSphere platform transforms the way businesses manage customer, partner and employee relationships. Tightly integrated business and web content development tools and Web site management capabilities deliver the most advanced and productive end-to-end application development, deployment and integration for sophisticated e-business solutions. Information about the complete WebSphere software platform is on the Web at http://www.software.ibm.com/websphere.> About ClearTrust SecureControl

ClearTrust SecureControl is an integrated, rules-based and directory-enabled suite of security products that provides a secure infrastructure for controlling user access to Web-based resources including applications, content and transactions. ClearTrust SecureControl uses natural language business rules (called Smart Rules(TM)) to centralize, unify and automate every component of access management including access control, single-sign on, authentication, authorization, delegated administration, policy assessment, threat detection and auditing. ClearTrust SecureControl also allows, via its Virtual Business Units, time consuming user administration workloads to be distributed on three levels: within a company (across departments, divisions, etc.); externally to Extranet partners and customers; and to individual users/subscribers via a self-service function. Finally, ClearTrust SecureControl provides integrated application level threat detection and counter measures to proactively secure e-business transactions and prevent fraud.