From: "ArticSoft" <yyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ArticSoft Quarterly News - NEW Secure Web Forms, Information
To: yyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 13:31:18 +0100

ArticSoft News - August 2004


In this newsletter :

*  NEW software - FormsAssurity - web form data encryption & digital signing

*  new case studies - see how customers in the finance industry are automating their security to save time and money

*  discontinued products

*  new Internet security guides and books

*  security industry news - open standards   
 
 

NEW PRODUCTS

This month we have released a unique web form data encryption and digital signature product called FormsAssurity

FormsAssurity provides total security of customer data entered into web forms. Secure forms appear just like any other form to the user - form data and any attachments are automatically encrypted (and digitally signed if requested) on pressing the submit button. Secure forms are either emailed or posted to a server.

- Forms automatically encrypted in transit and storage
- Customers can digitally sign forms and you can verify them
- Design secure forms online or import existing forms to make them secure
- Total customer confidence - much more secure than SSL

DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE TRIAL HERE - www.articsoft.com/trialware_downloads.htm
PURCHASE FROM ONLY $249 - www.articsoft.com/purchase_encryption.htm
  


PRIME REVENUE IMPLEMENTS COMMAND LINE SCRIPTOR - FINANCE CASE STUDY

See how PrimeRevenue Inc., a leading supplier of financial supply chain managed service software, saved time and money implementing FileAssurity OpenPGP Command Line Scriptor to protect large volumes of sensitive financial information being sent to partner banks.  www.articsoft.com/open_pgp_command_line_finance_casestudy.htm



WEB SITE ADDITIONS - INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE & INTERNET SECURITY PUBLICATIONS

Industry Compliance
A new section has been added to our web site called Compliance, that deals with the issues of The HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, the GLB Act and ISO/IEC 17799.

Information Security for Beginners
Two useful publications on Security of the Internet, and Managing Internet Security - a good practise guide, have been added to our Security Education center.

Web Spoofing Re-visited - SSL and Beyond
Can users believe what browsers tell them ? The simple conclusion in this paper is NO. Written by Dartmouth college this paper exposes why users should not rely on the SSL padlock icon for their security.



NEW BOOK - THE HACKERS NIGHTMARE

Written specifically for beginners, this book by the Australian author Bill Hely, The Hacker's Nightmare™ is a comprehensive, detailed, fully illustrated, step-by-step tutorial that transforms you from an easy mark to a hard target, for only $49.

This book turns YOU into the hacker's worst nightmare, by giving you the information you need to protect yourself against everything from eMail-born viruses through direct hack attacks to establishing secret and secure eMail communications.


FREE - EMAIL ENCRYPTION FOR BEGINNERS - www.articsoft.com/email_encryption.pdf
MORE INFO - www.articsoft.com/hackers_nightmare.htm
BUY NOW - http://www.keyoffer.com?alpha=LZF040B

 


SECURITY INDUSTRY NEWS - OPEN STANDARDS

Interoperability has been the bane of most security people’s lives. Just ask an X.509 PKI man to show you the scars! Or better still anyone at all from telecomms. 

Services have no value at all if the person at the other end does not get the message. And that is just as true for the network people as the security ones. You need open standards if you are ever going to succeed. 

But that doesn’t mean they should be so open that every implementation can be different. We have had plenty of instances of a standard that is so open that it is wide open to any interpretation a manufacturer feels like – which ends up being proprietary. That already happened with V.24, and again with almost any PKI standard you care to mention. 

It isn’t enough to waffle on about open standards alone. What you actually need is an open standard where there are a limited number of very clearly described options that will be implemented reliably. Because no standard has any value if the guy receiving the message cannot read it, or is given hassle trying to cope because only bits of it work. 

The OpenPGP standard is tightly defined and there are many ‘middle of the road’ implementations, besides our own, that mean you can be confident that the mail will really get through. There are a lot of people out there telling you that their proprietary implementation is much better, but push comes to shove they are just not going to take over the world. Reality is that open standards are the way forwards because they can be implemented successfully by all suppliers. We compete on functionality and price. Make sure they do. And if they don’t deliver on open standards you know what to do. 




DISCONTINUATION OF FILEASSURITY & CONTENTASSURITY

The FileAssurity and ContentAssurity products have now been discontinued, having been replaced by our FileAssurity OpenPGP product range. FileAssurity OpenPGP provides the functionality of both products, has additional features, and has the added advantage of being OpenPGP compliant.  You can now work securely with the biggest installed user base in the world.  All current support agreements will be honored, but we cannot renew existing contracts.  Current FileAssurity or ContentAssurity customers wanting to take advantage of our customer discounted upgrade plan should contact yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for details.  All of our current products are based on open source and open standards, ensuring you can interoperate with other OpenPGP products (PGP, GnuPGP, etc.) and are not locked into any propreitary technology.




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