Trusted Network Technologies Joins Trusted Computing Group

Released on = September 13, 2005, 3:40 pm

Press Release Author = Trusted Network Technologies

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Joining TCG demonstrates TNT’s continuing commitment to developing open standards and ensuring the security of organizations’ critical data.

Press Release Body = ATLANTA, GA –– September 13, 2005 – Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (TNT), a leading developer of identity audit and control solutions, today announced that it has become a member of the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a non-profit organization devoted to the creation of standards for strengthening the computing platform against software-based attacks. By aligning
with TCG, TNT will contribute to the development of security standards and ensure that its Identity product line continues to support open standards.

“Trusted Network Technologies’ Identity solution and Identity Operation System (IDOS) align with TCG’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) architecture, both of which are based on the concepts of integrity and identity,” said Brian Berger, TCG marketing work group chair. “A variety of network access controls, including VPNs
and dial-up remote access, wireless networks, 802.1x infrastructures, and LAN environments, are supported in the TNC architecture. TNT’s innovative Identity products complement and strengthen these access control solutions as well.”

TCG develops and promotes open specifications. Industry vendors use these specifications in products that protect and strengthen the computing platform against software-based attacks. Adherence to these standards minimizes barriers to adoption by providing a common user experience across different TCG-enabled platforms while ultimately contributing to improved security for organizations’
sensitive data. Adopting TCG specifications enables more secure computing environments without compromising functional integrity, privacy, or individual rights.

"Joining TCG demonstrates our continuing commitment for helping to develop open standards, and for ensuring the security of organizations’ critical data," said Robert Ciampa, VP of marketing and business strategy for TNT. “Like TCG, our primary goal is to help users protect confidential customer and business information, and
avoid risk. Trusted Network Technologies achieves this by providing identity audit and control solutions that enable companies to see, control and prove every user interaction with every computer, server and application.”

TNT’s Identity 2.0 is a simple, affordable software and appliance solution. By establishing pervasive identity for every user, computer, server and application, TNT enables organizations to easily enforce what authorized users can and cannot see or do. The identities are permanent and unalterable, and users without an identity cannot access a company’s assets at all. Identity’s clear, comprehensive reports satisfy auditors. In addition an organization can apply policy incrementally to users, groups, systems, applications, and subnets, easing deployment and reducing risk.

More than 100 companies worldwide are current TCG members, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and Sun Microsystems and many leading mobile systems and services vendors. TCG has active work groups for server, mobile devices, storage, peripherals and other implementation specifications. Hardware and
software specifications are available on the organization's website.

About the Trusted Computing Group
TCG is an industry standards body formed to develop, define, and promote open standards for trusted computing and security technologies, including hardware building blocks and software interfaces, across multiple platforms, peripherals, and devices. TCG specifications are designed to enable more secure computing
environments without compromising functional integrity with the primary goal of helping users to protect their information assets from compromise due to external software attack and physical theft. More information and the organization’s specifications are available at the Trusted Computing Group’s website, www.trustedcomputinggroup.org.

About Trusted Network Technologies, Inc.
Trusted Network Technologies (TNT) provides identity audit and control solutions that enable companies to see, control and prove every user interaction with every computer, server and application. Utilities, banks, universities and Fortune 1000 companies rely on TNT solutions to save them millions in complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory mandates, prevent the debilitating risk of exposing confidential information, and extend new services securely to partners and customers. TNT solutions enable these identity-driven companies to automate identity auditing and control as a fundamental business function, simultaneously strengthening and simplifying identity management and enforcement. For more information, visit www.trustednetworktech.com or call 888.566.9143.
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