Press Release

Ingrian Unveils Strategy for Standards-based Cryptographic Architecture for Building Secure Applications

Ingrian CHOICE Architecture Readies Industry with Interoperable Solutions Ahead of Widely Anticipated Product Introductions

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – August 14, 2006 – Ingrian® Networks, Inc. today announced Ingrian CHOICE™—its strategic vision to serve as a foundation for introducing interoperable solutions that encompass the company’s upcoming family of data privacy solutions.  

The Ingrian CHOICE architecture represents the technology and core values that Ingrian offers to its customers.  CHOICE is a flexible, integrated approach allowing customers to choose the solution they need today and then leverage their investment by adding solutions from developer partners to further expand their security infrastructure. 

Ingrian CHOICE allows enterprises to address many of their data privacy related concerns through a combination of technology solutions and best practices.  It is an architecture that enables compliance, seamless integration of encryption with business processes, and the flexibility to adapt to the evolving nature of the threats that enterprises must combat on a daily basis.  Whether solutions are delivered directly by Ingrian or through preferred technology partners, CHOICE is an end-to-end approach that can support virtually any heterogeneous enterprise environment.

“Enterprises face a myriad of corporate and compliance-related challenges around data privacy, and so the market for enterprise-class security/privacy solutions is poised for rapid growth," said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.  “Point tools may be a tactical solution but what's needed over the longer-term is a broader encryption solution that acts as a data privacy nexus for business applications and databases across the enterprise.  This is the design point and goal of the Ingrian CHOICE architecture.”  

Ingrian CHOICE Architecture offers all the components required to harness encryption and ensure complete data privacy throughout the enterprise:

• Centralized Key and Policy Management
• High Performance Encryption Offload
• Open and Flexible Integration Options
• Intelligent Authentication and  Authorization
• Centralized Auditing and Reporting
• Enterprise-wide Infrastructure Support

The hallmark of Ingrian CHOICE is the Ingrian KeySecure™ ISV Program which outlines the framework for network-based encryption services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools that provide developers with a more open, extensible and flexible environment that enhances security and ease of use. 

Independent software vendors (ISVs) are offered membership into the Ingrian KeySecure™ ISV Partner Program to integrate with Ingrian CHOICE to build and sell solutions based on Ingrian’s best-in-class encryption technology.  Charter members of the Ingrian KeySecure Program are: Comforte, Empress, Princeton Payment Systems and RedIron.

“Ingrian CHOICE Architecture empowers customers and partners to leverage Ingrian’s core platform technologies.  These technologies provide services for security, performance, and flexible integration for virtually any environment requiring an enterprise caliber data privacy solution,” said Karim Toubba, vice president of product management and corporate strategy for Ingrian Networks.  “There is an overwhelming number of vendors offering technologies to enable enterprises data privacy and without a standard approach to satisfying these requirements it is often difficult to implement the right solution.  We are taking the guesswork out of this by offering an easy way for ISVs to adopt our architecture.”

The KeySecure program enables partners to leverage the CHOICE Architecture. It offers several benefits to its members including joint marketing, lead referral support, training and customer support.

About DataSecure Platforms
Ingrian DataSecure Platforms provide an intelligent, cost-effective way to protect critical data from both internal and external threats.  Featuring dedicated hardware appliances and patent-pending cryptography software, Ingrian’s solutions deliver capabilities for granular encryption, seamless integration, and centralized security management. With its solutions, Ingrian supports:

• Retailers, financial institutions, and payment processors in adhering to card issuer security policies like the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.
• Organizations around the world seeking to comply with privacy legislation, such as California SB1386, the Europe Union Data Protection Directive, and many others.
• Financial institutions seeking to comply with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
• Government agencies striving to adhere to the Federal Information Security Management Act.

About Ingrian Networks
Ingrian Networks brings complete data privacy to the enterprise.  With Ingrian DataSecure Platforms, organizations can protect critical data from both internal and external threats, and ensure compliance with legislative and policy mandates for security.  DataSecure features a dedicated security appliance and specialized software that enables organizations to encrypt critical data in applications and databases.  With its capabilities for granular encryption, seamless integration, and centralized security management, DataSecure enables organizations to guard against a range of security threats, with unparalleled ease and cost effectiveness.  Ingrian is a privately held company backed by such investors as Globespan Capital Partners, HighBAR Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Partech International, and Prism Venture Partners.  For more information, visit http://www.ingrian.com.

 

Ingrian Media Contact

Betty Liang

Ingrian Networks

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