Pre-conference gossip about RSA

By Jeff Ubois
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The RSA show in San Jose this week will be huge. Among the more interesting announcements coming up:

Postini is planning to announce a deal with Zix Corp. to provide encryption services. The Postini Encryption Manager is part of a suite intended to extend Postini’s offering to instant messaging (IM) security, email and IM archiving, and encryption. The choice of Zix as a partner is a bit of suprise; while Zix has gained traction with healthcare organizations, it’s long been a troubled firm, and the slide of its stock from just under $20 two years ago to just under $2 reflects this.

PKware is introducing a secure file exchange product called PartnerLink, which allows cross-platform file encryption and digital signatures. The company has a clever approach to signing new customers; paying PKWare customers can send encrypted files to their business partners, who can in turn us PartnerLink for their communications, but only with the paying customer. The lead public customer for the new service is Fidelity Information Services.

Voltage Security says it will be releasing a new enterprise management platform integration kit (and charter partners), new product, several partner announcements and new customer wins.

There are also a number of identity management products being announced:

Softex Inc., in conjunction with Lenovo International, will be demonstrating the latest version 4.0 release of OmniPass, an identity and access management solution that utilizes multi-factor authentication including biometrics, smart cards, proximity badges, tokens, and the TCG standard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip.

Ping Identity is announcing general availability of PingTrust, which provides trusted user identity to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), and allows user-based authentication, authorization, logging and billing for web services.

And HP ProCurve Networking will be demoing Identity Driven Manager 2.0 on the show floor.

Published February 12, 2006