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VeriSign to Introduce VeriSign Unified Authentication - Smart Cards
VeriSign To Enhance Strong Authentication Platform With The Introduction
of VeriSign® Unified Authentication – Smart Cards
Enhancement Will Complete VeriSign Unified Authentication
Offering; Providing an Integrated Suite of Smart Card and PKI Management
Tools
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, 24 January 2006 – VeriSign, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services
for Internet and telecoms networks, today announced it will enhance
its strong authentication service with the introduction of VeriSign®
Unified Authentication – Smart Cards in the second quarter of 2006.
VeriSign Unified Authentication – Smart Cards will provide businesses
and public authorities with an integrated, easy-to-use suite of management
tools for smart card and PKI deployments, supporting a wide range of
smart card types, workflows and deployment options.
Recently, government and industry regulations have
been directing agencies and businesses to employ standardised smart
card identification mechanisms for their employees and external users.
In addition, large corporations are starting to use unified physical
and logical access smart card credentials as a way to reduce the cost,
while increasing the security of their authentication infrastructures.
VeriSign Unified Authentication – Smart Cards will
provide a complete authentication solution by extending VeriSign’s strong
authentication platform with tightly integrated smart cards and PKI
components, allowing faster implementation and a lower cost of ownership.
Smart Cards will also strengthen VeriSign’s offer in the growing Citizen
ID card space, extending the offering beyond its core authentication
services.
‘The extension of the VeriSign Unified Authentication
platform to support Smart Cards represents the next logical step in
providing a complete, open-standards based authentication service for
government agencies and corporations alike,’ said Nico Popp, vice president,
Authentication Services, VeriSign Security Services. ‘VeriSign Unified
Authentication – Smart Cards will integrate best-of-breed smart card
and PKI management components under the same intuitive interface, providing
the most comprehensive, easy-to-use suite of management tools which
will enable any agency or enterprise to quickly provision, deploy and
manage smart card-based strong authentication.’
VeriSign Unified Authentication provides a single,
integrated platform for provisioning and managing all types of two-factor
authentication credentials. It reduces the cost of deployment by leveraging
an organisation's existing infrastructure and delivering a flexible
solution built on known, open standards.
For more information about VeriSign Unified Authentication
– Smart Cards, please go to: http://www.verisign.com/products-services/security-services/pki/card-management-system/index.html
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), operates intelligent infrastructure services
which enable and protect billions of interactions every day across the
world’s voice and data networks. Additional news and information about
the company is available at www.verisign.co.uk.
For more information, contact:
VeriSign Media Relations: Brendan P. Lewis, brlewis@verisign.com,
001 650-426-4470
VeriSign Investor Relations: Tom McCallum, tmccallum@verisign.com,
001 650-426-3744
Statements
in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the
United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties
that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from
those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential
risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty of future
revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly operating
results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to successfully
develop and market new products and services and customer acceptance
of any new products or services, including VeriSign Unified Authentication
– Smart Cards; the possibility that VeriSign’s announced new services
may not result in additional customers, profits or revenues; and increased
competition and pricing pressures. More information about potential
factors that could affect the company's business and financial results
is included in VeriSign's filings with the US Securities and Exchange
Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2004 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking
statements after the date of this press release.
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