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Exostar Launches Federated Identity-as-a-service Offering
Aims to help organizations secure e-mail, control information access and verify digital signatures for employees, partners and suppliers; securing the supply chain with digital certificates
Herndon, VA — May 7, 2008 — Aerospace and defense (A&D) industry solution provider Exostar has taken the wraps off its Federated Identity Service (FIS) offering for medium level of assurance software credentials, aimed at giving organizations the ability to issue digital credentials to employees, suppliers and partners faster, with less risk and at a lower cost.
Exostar released the original version of FIS in 2007 for hardware-based digital credentials as part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) Pilot Program, working with Johnson Controls, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Electronic Data Systems Corporation. The new FIS software-based credentials are intended to have a broader market appeal, supporting applications for secure e-mail, information access control and digital signatures.
Exostar said that FIS directly meets new standards of care related to online digital identities for industry and government stakeholders that require a high degree of confidence that someone is who they say they are. Simple username/password-based authentication frameworks are proving to no longer be adequate to protect commercially sensitive or government regulated information.
The new Exostar service delivers digital certificates with higher quality and strength — based on public key infrastructure (PKI) — without the significant expense and technical expertise required to build and manage this capability in-house, Exostar said.
Through its subscription model, Exostar said it supports the issuance and complete lifecycle management of medium level of assurance (MLOA) software credentials to end-users. FIS credentials are based on industry standards used across the aerospace, defense and air transportation communities, creating interoperability across the extended value chain.
Exostar also has worked with CertiPath and the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) to ensure its service complies with evolving best practices and standards.
"Exostar is making it much easier to achieve the higher levels of security needed for secure information sharing as being defined by the industry," said Vijay Takanti, Exostar vice president for security and collaboration solutions. "Exostar's Federated Identity Service enables organizations to deliver faster, cost-effective secure collaboration solutions, knowing with a high degree of assurance who is accessing their information."
According to Exostar, FIS accelerates the acceptance and deployment of higher-value PKI credentials to enable protected e-mail communications with digital signatures, reducing risks associated with phishing; greater compliance related to sensitive data (ITAR, employee data, company confidential, etc.) through encryption and audit trails; and improved control over access to company information with secure log-in to Web portals and enterprise applications.
Exostar said that FIS helps reduce the burden on IT resources by making it easier for large organizations to deploy and manage certificates on an enterprise-wide scale, and for smaller suppliers without credentialing expertise to serve increasingly demanding customers.
Under Exostar's subscription model, customers only pay for what they use based on the number of users. All required hardware, software, upgrades, backup systems and customer support activities are bundled in the service fee. The solution interoperates across intranets, extranets and VPNs.
Exostar said it currently works with more than 85 of the top 100 aerospace and defense (A&D) companies to help them ensure that their intellectual property is safe in a multi-enterprise collaborative environment.
Exostar released the original version of FIS in 2007 for hardware-based digital credentials as part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) Pilot Program, working with Johnson Controls, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Electronic Data Systems Corporation. The new FIS software-based credentials are intended to have a broader market appeal, supporting applications for secure e-mail, information access control and digital signatures.
Exostar said that FIS directly meets new standards of care related to online digital identities for industry and government stakeholders that require a high degree of confidence that someone is who they say they are. Simple username/password-based authentication frameworks are proving to no longer be adequate to protect commercially sensitive or government regulated information.
The new Exostar service delivers digital certificates with higher quality and strength — based on public key infrastructure (PKI) — without the significant expense and technical expertise required to build and manage this capability in-house, Exostar said.
Through its subscription model, Exostar said it supports the issuance and complete lifecycle management of medium level of assurance (MLOA) software credentials to end-users. FIS credentials are based on industry standards used across the aerospace, defense and air transportation communities, creating interoperability across the extended value chain.
Exostar also has worked with CertiPath and the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) to ensure its service complies with evolving best practices and standards.
"Exostar is making it much easier to achieve the higher levels of security needed for secure information sharing as being defined by the industry," said Vijay Takanti, Exostar vice president for security and collaboration solutions. "Exostar's Federated Identity Service enables organizations to deliver faster, cost-effective secure collaboration solutions, knowing with a high degree of assurance who is accessing their information."
According to Exostar, FIS accelerates the acceptance and deployment of higher-value PKI credentials to enable protected e-mail communications with digital signatures, reducing risks associated with phishing; greater compliance related to sensitive data (ITAR, employee data, company confidential, etc.) through encryption and audit trails; and improved control over access to company information with secure log-in to Web portals and enterprise applications.
Exostar said that FIS helps reduce the burden on IT resources by making it easier for large organizations to deploy and manage certificates on an enterprise-wide scale, and for smaller suppliers without credentialing expertise to serve increasingly demanding customers.
Under Exostar's subscription model, customers only pay for what they use based on the number of users. All required hardware, software, upgrades, backup systems and customer support activities are bundled in the service fee. The solution interoperates across intranets, extranets and VPNs.
Exostar said it currently works with more than 85 of the top 100 aerospace and defense (A&D) companies to help them ensure that their intellectual property is safe in a multi-enterprise collaborative environment.
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