Tarmin Solutions’ Office Guard Receives Computer Associates’ ca smart Certification
London July 27, 2003 - “Public Key Infrastructure is a foundational security technology for providing strong authentication and non-repudiation. Now, more then ever, people are utilizing email to send and receive confidential information or as an avenue for conducting business electronically,” said Eric Ross, Product Manager for CA’s eTrust PKI solution. “Tarmin Solution’s Office Guard is an enabler for PKI as part of a real world integrated e-business process. We are impressed with Tarmin’s Office Guard product. Its extensibility and features provide ease of use for the end user, thus creating a transparent PKI solution.”
Public Key Infrastructure is a combination of e-business policy and asymmetric key cryptography that allows for the secure authentication of users on-line. PKI enables highly secure information exchanges over computer networks and ensures the integrity and confidentiality of information. In addition, PKI is used to generate provably secure and legislation compliant digital signatures, recognized by over 40 nations worldwide.
Users of the integrated Tarmin-CA solution will be able to immediately encrypt and digitally sign any file, protecting this information from compromise as well as establishing provable authenticity of authorship and integrity of electronic transactions and records. Direct integration into the Microsoft Windows Desktop environment as well as such popular Microsoft productivity applications such as Word, Outlook and Excel, enables users to securely manage important information with ease. The product’s rich integration abilities additionally include a broad range of existing applications, enabling legacy applications to be made PKI aware with ease using available open interfaces.
“We are pleased to have as eminent name in the field of software as Computer Associates recognize the value delivered by Office Guard,” noted Tarmin President Shahbaz Ali, reached at Tarmin’s London office. “We are deeply committed to promoting eTrust PKI and are confident in our mutual success in improving organizational security through delivery of the best technology with the best usability and broad interoperability.”
Key benefits of the integrated solution include:
Reduction in the complexity traditionally associated with the end user experience. This dramatically lowers deployment and management related hurdles.
Improved flexibility and lower total cost of ownership compared with comparable product offerings in addition to unique functionality found nowhere else .
Legislation Complaint Electronic Signatures are capable of being generated directly from within popular Microsoft applications such as Outlook/Exchange and Word.
About Tarmin Solutions
Tarmin Solutions is a developer of robust, highly usable security software solutions designed to facilitate the secure execution, transmission and storage of electronic data. Based on its Indus Intelligence Security Engine, Tarmin help transform the way business is secured. Founded in 2000, Tarmin is headquartered in London, England with offices in the US and Europe.
For more information on Tarmin Solutions, please visit http://www.tarmin.com
