Press Release
CoreStreet and Alacris Announce Joint Agreement
Working Together Companies Will Build Real-Time Credential Validation Solutions That Combine Security, Safety and Convenience
BOSTON, Massachusetts (February 10, 2003)
CoreStreet, a leading provider of authorization and validation technology, and Alacris, a highly innovative developer of leading-edge identity management and security products, today announced that they have certified each others products and are jointly identifying mutual customers for high performance managed certificate solutions. The companies' announcement comes at a time when tens of millions of secure digital certificates are being deployed as part of secure identity and commerce programs worldwide.
CoreStreet and Alacris have a unique combination of products to simplify the deployment and maintenance of large, secure public key infrastructures (PKIs). Alacris offers an end-to-end solution for registering digital credentials and managing the certificate lifecycle for large numbers of users. CoreStreet's Real-Time Credential products provide a highly scalable and secure infrastructure for distributing certificate status information. This technology fully integrates with the Alacris Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) client utilities, which enables Windows applications to efficiently verify the current validity of digital certificates used for secure email and Web services.
"CoreStreet is pleased to be working with Alacris on identifying customers in need of secure, scalable and affordable authentication and validation products," said , president of CoreStreet. "Through this collaboration, CoreStreet will provide the real-time authorization and validation technology that keeps unauthorized individuals from accessing buildings or computer networks in the physical and digital world."
"The increase in demand for security solutions that not only authenticate but also validate an individual's identity is becoming a critical concern for an increasing number of organizations," said Conrad Bayer, CTO of Alacris. "Working with CoreStreet will enable both companies to deliver security solutions that meet the high standards of security, scalability and affordability demanded by customers today."
About Alacris
Alacris provides a range of security products that enable our customers to maximize their use of digital certificates to implement new services or to solve business challenges. Our primary focus is a set of applications to simplify registration and management of digital certificates in large-scale public key infrastructures.
Alacris's clients are leaders in the pharmaceuticals, banking, securities and telecommunications industries all with diverse security needs and that use PKI as a foundation for delivering e-business. Alacris can customize a solution to a client's e-business needs to ensure the creation of a trusted environment, while providing the ongoing management of certificate-based services. For additional information please visit www.alacris.com.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
About CoreStreet
Bridging the security gap between physical and information security, CoreStreet provides the only secure authorization and validation technology for connected and intermittently connected environments. Combining security, safety and convenience, CoreStreet enables organizations to grant or revoke an individual's access rights to a building, computer network, laptop or wireless devices immediately in real time.
CoreStreet's Real-Time Credential products provide a high-security infrastructure to enable certificate validation for millions of users. This is powered by the unique Distributed Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) architecture, which radically reduces operational costs while eliminating the performance and security bottlenecks of traditional OCSP certificate validation. This enables ubiquitous real-time credential validation in both networked and fully disconnected environments. For more information, visit www.corestreet.com.
CoreStreet and Real Time Credentials are trademarks of CoreStreet Ltd.
