Utimaco Expands Strategic Partnership with StrongAuth Inc, to Provide Enhanced Key Management Solution

Interoperability of the key management solution StrongKey and Utimaco’s SafeGuard CryptoServer provides joint customers with highly flexible key management security – Joint Data Security Workshop on Professional Central Key Management in Service oriented Architectures (SOA)

Oberursel/Aachen, Germany, February 21st, 2008. Utimaco – The Data Security Company today announced that it has extended its strategic partnership in the area of centralized key management certifying interoperability between Utimaco’s hardware security module (HSM) SafeGuard CryptoServer and StrongKey solution from StrongAuth Inc.

StrongAuth, Inc. is a privately held company based in Cupertino, California. It specializes in Enterprise Key Management, Identity Management, and Compliance Management products and solutions. StrongAuth has integrated and created some of the strongest security technologies and processes to bring digital identities and information a higher level of protection, enjoyed only by the most sophisticated enterprise and defense installations of the world.

“The technology partnership between Utimaco and StrongAuth helps to reap the rewards of e-business, balancing user enablement with the security necessary to protect electronic business processes,” stated Andreas Philipp, Head of HSM Business at Utimaco. “The interoperability of the key management solution StrongKey and SafeGuard CryptoServer provides our joint customers with highly flexible key management security based on the open and interoperable OASIS standard.”

The challenges of key management in SoA infrastructures will be discussed at a joint technology workshop in Aachen (Germany) on February, 21 and 22. Together with Arshad Noor, Founder & CEO of StrongAuth, Inc., science and industry leader will present the state-of-the-art and demonstrate existing business cases.

“Encryption is the last bastion of defense for IT infrastructures.” stated Arshad Noor. “However, managing encryption keys across the enterprise requires tools that meet the challenges global companies typically face: internet-level scalability, rock-solid security, low Total Cost of Ownership and platform-neutrality. The partnership between StrongAuth and Utimaco provides enterprises a solution that addresses these requirements not only for legacy applications, but as well as for newer SOA-based applications.”

About StrongAuth Inc.
StrongAuth, Inc. is a privately held California corporation, whose focus is Enterprise Key Management, PKI-based Identity Management and Compliance Workflow Management. StrongAuth has solved complex business problems customers by creating path-breaking software to solve unique security-related problems:
• StrongKey – An open-source symmetric encryption key-management software product that creates a new paradigm for how encryption keys may be managed across the enterprise, in a platform and application-independent manner;
• CSRTool – An open-source utility for generating RSA/ECDSA cryptographic key-pairs and combining them with associated digital certificates to create secure portable containers, allowing them to be transported to applications/servers.
• SENSIDIEM – A Breach-Disclosure compliance workflow application that allows executives responsible for information protection to know their sensitive assets in the company, their stakeholders and controls, with a tool to track breaches through the investigations (with storage of forensic data) to their eventual disclosure (if required by law).

With customers in the Retail, Pharmaceutical, Financial, Technology, Consulting and Transportation sectors, StrongAuth has helped some of the largest companies in the world with the architecture, implementation and operations of complex technological infrastructures. StrongAuth actively participates on various technology and standards forums, with the goal of advancing standards in the fields that it specializes in. StrongAuth employees are active in OASIS and hold the Chair position in the Enterprise Key Management Infrastructure Technical Committee. For more information please visit http://www.strongauth.com and http://www.strongkey.org.

About SafeGuard CryptoServer
SafeGuard CryptoServer is a tamperproof hardware security module. It is responsible for securely generating, storing and applying cryptographic keys and certificates during encryption and digital signature processes. Utimaco's SafeGuard CryptoServer product family, which has FIPS certification, provides powerful, highly flexible hardware security modules, and is now interoperable with StrongKey Symmetric Key-Management System.

About Utimaco Safeware AG – The Data Security Company.
Utimaco is a leading global provider of data security solutions, enabling mid- to large-size organizations to safeguard their data assets against intentional or unintentional data loss, and to comply with privacy laws. Utimaco’s complete range of data security solutions provide full 360 degree data protection for data at rest, data in motion and data in use. Utimaco offers its customers comprehensive on-site support via a world-wide network of certified partners and subsidiaries. Utimaco Safeware AG, with headquarters in Oberursel, near Frankfurt, Germany, is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ISIN DE0007572406). For more information please visit http://www.utimaco.com.

Additional information:
Utimaco Safeware AG – The Data Security Company.
http://www.utimaco.de/press
http://www.utimaco.com
Rieke Bönisch
Tel: +49 (0)6171 88 – 12 10
E-Mail: rieke.boenisch@utimaco.de

StrongAuth, Inc.
(408) 331-2000
info@strongauth.com