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SPYRUS® Demonstrates Pocketsize PKI System at Red Hat Summit 2008
PocketCA revolutionizes enterprise digital identity lifecycle management and administration for Linux.
San Jose, California – June 19, 2008 – SPYRUS, Inc. today announced that it will demonstrate its PocketCA™ complete Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate system for Linux operating systems at the Red Hat Summit 2008. PocketCA is an implementation of the “Dogtag” open source project, a collection of technologies from Red Hat that enable enterprises to deploy PKI on a large scale. PocketCA puts the entire PKI system in a pocketsize trusted hardware-based security device from SPYRUS that boots on any computer, significantly reducing the complexity of deployment.
“The SPYRUS PocketCA marks a change in direction for certificate and identity management systems with an improvement over previous server-based systems that require an access-controlled computer room, large numbers of computers and a broad IT staff,” said Katrinka McCallum, vice president of Red Hat's Management and Security business. “We believe that the Dogtag project contributed to the ability of this type of innovation to be possible for the Linux market.”
SPYRUS used its Hydra PC Digital Attaché hardware-based USB encryption device to rapidly develop the new PocketCA. The PocketCA will be used to boot from an unencrypted read-only compartment on its 8GB microSD memory card to begin the start-up process of the PKI system. The Linux operating system, directory services, certificate services, critical applications and sensitive data components are always protected on a sector-based encrypted compartment located on the same 8GB microSD memory card. The CA administrator must log on to the encrypted compartment before any PKI services can run. No connectivity to a network or the Internet is required to use PocketCA, but when a connection is available, PocketCA can synchronize the pertinent data with the appropriate directories and databases.
Before PocketCA, many complex technologies and product components had to be integrated to deploy enterprise-class PKI systems for certificate issuance, revocation, directory integration, and smart card or USB token support. For over a decade, SPYRUS customers with critical infrastructure in law enforcement, government and enterprise markets have relied on its Microsoft Windows-based PKI products. To develop the PocketCA, SPYRUS used the Linux open source community, and specifically the Dogtag Certificate System project, to continue its record of innovation in the area of identity management and hardware-based security solutions. The PocketCA implementation of Dogtag is one of a suite of SPYRUS products targeted to meet an increasing demand for Linux-based solutions in the government and private sectors.
“SPYRUS has always had a focus on trusted hardware-based security and PKI technologies,” said Tom Dickens, Chief Operating Officer of SPYRUS, Inc. “We developed the PocketCA to address the limitations and inflexibility designed into most traditional PKI systems in order to support bandwidth-limited environments such as the tactical battlefield, remote critical infrastructure sites and outlying Enterprise sites. The Dogtag project proved to be invaluable to enabling SPYRUS to reach this objective in a timely and cost-effective manner.”
About SPYRUS, Inc.
SPYRUS, Inc., a Microsoft Managed ISV Partner and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has pioneered portable security products and solutions for the information security market since its inception in 1992. Our primary product lines of LYNKS Hardware Security Modules, Rosetta Series II smart cards and USB security devices, Hydra Privacy Card® Series II encryption and mass storage, Talisman/DS® Data Security Suite, and identity management products (Signal Identity Manager™ and SPYRUS PKI) meet customer needs for high-assurance security. Our mission is to set the standard for the new era of multinational information sharing and long-term data protection. SPYRUS, Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, CA. See www.spyrus.com for further information.
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