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TriCipher, Inc. Announces Board
of Advisors
Strong Authentication Company
Names Security and Industry Luminaries to Board
of Advisors
SAN MATEO, CA – May 23, 2005 -- TriCipher,
Inc., the innovators of strong authentication for
the real world, today announced the formation of
its board of advisors. TriCipher’s advisory
board consists of nine highly accomplished individuals
that offer TriCipher deep domain expertise in security,
financial services, identity management and intellectual
property. They have partnered with the company to
help provide product and strategic guidance in their
respective areas. The company’s ability to
attract a high quality advisory board validates the
innovation TriCipher’s technology delivers
to the authentication market and the strength of
the market need.
“I believe TriCipher has developed a unique
product that fills a huge gap in the authentication
market between products that are too weak or too
hard to manage or deploy,” commented Bob West,
President of Echelon One, LLC and former CISO of
Fifth Third Bank. “Having purchased and implemented
complex authentication systems, I appreciate both
the security and ease of use and deployment TriCipher
represents. I look forward to leveraging my experience
as a CISO to give the company an edge selling security
in today’s business environment and help develop
its product roadmap.”
“Strong authentication is rapidly emerging
for every identity management installation,” said
Vadim Lander, Chief Identity Architect for Computer
Associates and former CTO of Netegrity. “Companies
have held off deploying it because most systems are
expensive, complex and difficult to use. TriCipher
has solved these problems and added the ability to
match authentication strength to type of user. I
expect to see TriCipher widely deployed over the
next couple of years.”
“For companies offering online services,
strong authentication is critical to protect users
and their private information,” noted Gerhard
Eschelbeck, CTO and Vice President of Engineering
at Qualys. “TriCipher is delivering one of
the first solutions for deployment in hosted and
multi-tenant environments.”
TriCipher’s new board of advisors includes:
Becky Bace , President and CEO
of Infidel, Inc., Becky has been named one of the
five most influential women in security and is a
noted author on network security and intrusion detection.
Jim Douglass , Jim was most recently
CEO of the Atlanta based Visionary Systems, Inc.,
sold to Trans Union in 2005. Prior to Visionary Systems,
Jim served as the Executive Vice President of Corporate
Development and Chief Financial Officer of CheckFree
Corporation, where he helped grow the company to
over $500 million in revenue as the leading provider
of electronic billing and payment services to financial
institutions and portals.
Gerhard Eschelbeck , CTO and Vice
President of Engineering at Qualys, Gerhard is the
author of the seminal “Laws of Vulnerabilities,” has
been named one of InfoWorld’s 25 Most Influential
CTOs two years running, and is a significant contributor
to the SANS Top 20 expert consensus.
David Grawrock , End to End Security
Architect and Principal Engineer for the Digital
Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation, David is the
lead security architect for LaGrande Technology and
the Chair of the Trusted Computing Group TPM workgroup.
Eric Greenberg , Chief Technology
Officer and Founder of NetFrameworks, Inc, Eric led
Netscape’s security group, and is considered one
of the fathers of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) in the
browser.
Steve Kent , Vice President and
Chief Scientist, BBN Technologies. Dr. Kent served
as a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1983-1994),
and chaired the Privacy and Security Research Group
of the Internet Research Task Force (1985-1998),
both now under the auspices of the Internet Society.
He co-chairs the Public Key Infrastructure Working
Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
He is the primary author of the "core" IPsec
standards: RFCs 2401, 2402 & 2406.
Vadim Lander , Chief Identity
Architect for Computer Associates and former CTO
for Netegrity, Vadim was instrumental in the design
and development of Netegrity SiteMinder and IdentityMinder.
Alfred A. Stadnicki , a
partner in the law firm of Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus,
is a well-known intellectual property attorney and
expert in patent law. He served as outside
counsel to NIST in its evaluation of potential
patent issues relating to its selection
of the AES algorithm, and was previously Assistant
General Counsel and IP Counsel to Intelsat and
an attorney in the legal department of Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Bob West , CISSP, is President
of Echelon One, LLC. Formerly, he was Chief Information
Security Officer for Fifth Third Bank and led a breakthrough
project to deploy a unified identity infrastructure
for the bank.
“The members of our board of advisors have
already been invaluable to our business,” said
Ravi Ganesan, Founder and CEO of TriCipher. “They
have helped us evaluate the security of various authentication
products, introduced us to potential partners and
customers, and given us strategic guidance on product
direction. The insight and expertise out advisory
board offers has already translated into a tangible
competitive advantage and we look forward to ongoing
collaboration to deliver innovative authentication
solutions.”
About TriCipher, Inc.
TriCipher, Inc. provides strong authentication for
the real world. The first authentication system that
issues multiple types of credentials from a single
infrastructure, the TriCipher Armored Credential System™ (TACS)
allows for authentication strength to change in response
to new threats without any infrastructure changes.
Our patented technology fills the gap between authentication
systems that are either not secure enough or too hard
to use and deploy. TriCipher’s innovative approach
to strong multi-factor authentication protects against
phishing and eliminates dictionary attacks. Founded
in 2000, TriCipher is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
The Company was incubated as NSD Security before launching
as a separate entity in 2005. Investors in TriCipher
are ArrowPath Venture Capital, Intel® Capital,
Trident Capital and Wasatch Venture Partners. For more
information, please visit
www.tricipher.com or
email info@tricipher.com.
Copyright 2005 TriCipher, Inc. TriCipher,
Armored Credential, and Armored Credential Appliance
are either registered trademarks or trademarks
of TriCipher, Inc. in the United States and/or
other countries. All other products and services
mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.
For More Information Contact:
Elizabeth Safran, Trainer Communications for TriCipher,
Inc.
elizabeth@trainercomm.com, (408) 920-0585
Sally Sheward, TriCipher, Inc.
sally@tricipher.com,
(650) 372-1312
