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OATH Members to Demonstrate Strong Open Authentication Technology Solutions at RSA Conference 2007

OATH Celebrates Third Anniversary at RSA Conference; 12 Companies Featured in OATH Pavilion, Booth #1724

WASHINGTON CROSSING, PA, January 31, 2007 – OATH, the initiative for Open AuTHentication and a leading proponent  of industry-backed standards for royalty-free open authentication, commemorates its third anniversary at the RSA Conference 2007 at the OATH Pavilion Booth 1724 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Twelve OATH member companies will demonstrate security solutions based on OATH approved standards.  OATH will also announce its 2007 technology roadmap at the conference. 

“We mark our third year as an organization with an impressive track record of technology and accomplishments in furthering our goals for royalty-free open authentication,” said Don Malloy of InCard Technologies and OATH’s Marketing Chair.  “Our membership has tripled since our inception and we will have an emphasis not only on technical achievement, but education and training based on the OATH Reference Architecture.”

Companies participating in the OATH Pavilion include:

  • Athena Smartcard Solutions (www.athena-scs.com).  Athena Smartcard Solutions is a global smart card company offering a wide range of products and solutions for government, enterprise and financial institutions.
  • CertiSign (www.certisign.com).  Sao Paulo, Brazil-based CertiSign provides innovative PKI-based solutions to financial institutions, governments, and enterprises that increasingly use unsecured IP networks to link business processes, exchange information, and conduct banking and commerce transactions.
  • Diversinet (www.diversinet.com). Diversinet has a long history of innovation and world-leading expertise in the authentication security and mobility sectors. Since 1997, the company has invested in research and development and offers a patent program for its next-generation technology.
  • Identita Technologies, Inc. (www.identita.com).  Identita Technologies, the benchmark provider of identity authentication solutions, designs end-to-end identity applications founded on the principles of dynamic acoustic recognition.
  • Imprivata (www.imprivata.com). Imprivata is the enterprise authentication and access management appliance company delivering OneSign—an easy, smart and affordable appliance for securing networks, applications and building/IT access.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication (www.multifa.com).  Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) designed SecureAuth to provide cost effective secure user authentication for online transactions. MFA’s founders created SecureAuth using patent pending technology to uniquely offer secure token-less, out of the box integration for most online transactions.
  • MXI Security (www.mxisecurity.com).  Designed to meet the security and privacy needs of the world’s largest private and public sector organizations, MXI Security’s portable security devices combine the power of secure storage with identity, encryption, and authentication services.
  • OpenCS (www.opencs.com).  Open Communications Security specializes in information security focused on Electronic Fraud Combat and Management. Founded in 2001 by a group of Brazilian professionals with experience in information technology, telecommunications and security, it has consolidated as one of the leading security information companies in Brazil.
  • SanDisk (www.sandisk.com).  SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology.
  • Steelcape (www.steelcape.com).  Steelcape provides the first next-generation network protocol that augments TCP/IP making it more secure and efficient. Steelcape is completely compatible to all existing TCP/IP applications and does not require any operating system modifications to be effective.  
  • Thales eSecurity (www.thales-esecurity.com).  Operating in three main markets covering e-security, card payment and network security, Thales’ e-Security activities address the business, government and finance industries’ need for cryptographic security products and solutions.
  • Vasco (www.vasco.com). VASCO designs, develops, markets and supports patented user authentication products for the financial world, remote access, e-business and e-commerce.  VASCO’s user authentication software is delivered via its Digipass hardware and software security products.
  • UPEK (www.upek.com).  UPEK, Inc., a global leader in biometric fingerprint security solutions, offers integrated end-to-end solutions including comprehensive design & integration services to the world’s leading consumer and industrial products companies.

About the Initiative for Open AuTHentication
The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH) is the industry’s leading collaboration of device, platform and application companies, and end user customers of authentication technologies. OATH participants hope to foster use of strong authentication across networks, devices and applications. OATH participants work collectively to facilitate standards and build reference architecture for open authentication while evangelizing the benefits of strong interoperable authentication in a networked world. As OATH grows, the organization is actively seeking feedback and technology contributions from end-user participants who share a common vision for open authentication technology and the products that provide this important measure of security.

OATH is dedicated to helping customers reduce the cost and complexity of deploying strong authentication within enterprises, and across the Internet. Since its formation, OATH’s membership includes security industry leaders from token manufacturers, platform vendors, smartcard providers, and security services companies.  End user companies are joining OATH to add their voice and ideas towards the goal of open authentication.

To join OATH and to see a list of its current membership, go to: http://www.openauthentication.org/membership.asp. 

Access the enrollment form by visiting:  http://www.openauthentication.org/membership_form.asp. 

To learn more about OATH, e-mail info@openauthentication.org or visit http://www.openauthentication.org.

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