Stories about: Identrus

Erich Clementi, the general manager of IBM systems who is also in charge of the company's mainframe efforts, discussed some of the features of IBM's z9 mainframe, which was announced last week. The z9 represents IBM's biggest mainframe upgrade in nearly three years, cost US$1.2 billion to develop and doubles the performance over its predecessor to 1 billion transactions per day. Those performance improvements notwithstanding, company officials put a particular focus on the z9's security improvements when they unveiled the new system.

IBM is hoping to encourage banks to make more use of digital certificates through a tie-up with trusted identity company Identrus, Big Blue announced Wednesday. Identrus has certified version 1.5 and higher of IBM's z/OS mainframe operating system so that users of the software can act as their own digital certificate authorities, eliminating potentially costly middleman certifiers, according to an IBM executive.

I spent a very interesting hour with Phil Libin, president of CoreStreet, learning about the company's method for providing "massively scalable validation products for identity management and access control" - that's how CoreStreet describes its business. First, though, we had to get over a couple of semantic hurdles which points up one of the things slowing down the convergence of pure security products with pure identity management tools.

eFunds has acquired the intellectual property of local Internet payment technology provider Webpay's products, as well as its CEO and five software development staff.

Stockholm financial services group Nordea AB has entered into agreements with IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to offer straightforward Internet-based payment systems for e-commerce sites, it said Tuesday.

IBM Tuesday released details about an upcoming WebSphere product aimed at financial institutions with secure, high-volume payment-processing needs.

IBM Corp. on Tuesday announced a suite of middleware products aimed at helping the world's largest banks speed up their transition to SwiftNet as well as to make trusted electronic payments more secure.

In our virtual roundtable industry experts discuss the greatest security threats to IT professionals and where the much hyped fields of PKI and biometrics are heading.

An online payment system based on the premise of electronic cheques is looking to breathe some life back into the local e-commerce market.

In an effort to allay security concerns for corporations conducting business over the Internet, IBM recently announced a new program that lets companies offer secure online-based payment services to their customers and partners.

Australian Internet security software company SecureNet has signed a three-year service agreement with the ANZ Bank that is anticipated to generate revenues in excess of $8 million for SecureNet.