PortWise delivers support for OATH and security for cloud computing

PALO ALTO, California and STOCKHOLM, Sweden – December 15, 2008 –
PortWise , a leader in strong authentication and applications access today
announced the availability of PortWise 4.7 worldwide.

PortWise 4.7 marks another milestone for PortWise with the delivery of a new open authentication platform, the launch of a new transaction gateway focused on web service transactions and last but not least extended support for secure cloud computing.

- With PortWise 4.7 we further extend our versatile authentication platform with a vast number of additional authentication methods. We are seeing a continuously growing demand for open and scalable solutions that are mobile and most importantly are cost effective , says Per Hägerö, CTO at PortWise.

PortWise 4.7 is fully compliant with the standards developed by Open Authentication consortium.

Further more PortWise 4.7 includes a new product component, the transaction gateway, which enables the use of PortWise in high volume transactions scenarios such as payment systems, healthcare transactions and other B2B solutions.

On the application access side PortWise 4.7 delivers some unique features with the data recording (enables capture of all data sent in a secure channel), SSO for Telnet and SSH and contextual session control.

As the adoption of cloud computing becomes more common security solutions will need to embrace cloud computing as well. PortWise already with previously releases supported basic technologies but with Portwise 4.7 this is now extended to make sure PortWise customers can deploy cloud computing with the best security practises.

- Customers need a secure application access platform that can integrate cloud application along with applications that are already on the enterprise network. The industry is now changing from perimeter defence to application security and the PortWise solution has all the key features that are need to make this transition rapidly and without any disruption for the end user, says Per Hägerö

For more information on PortWise 4.7 please go to http://www.portwise.com/47