Application Security Program offers encrypted file transfer.
Press Release Summary:
Validian ASI SAFE (secure authenticated file exchange) application building block leverages Validian ASI security framework, enabling developers to embed secure file transfer capability directly into applications. It protects sensitive corporate data while in transit so that data never travels unencrypted. API and library simplify recurring programming issues such as configuring file exchange environment, executing secure transfers, and monitoring exchanges between applications.
Original Press Release:
Validian Corporation Extends its Application Security Solution (ASI) with a File Transfer Building Block to Deliver Secure Authenticated File Exchange (SAFE)
Development-Time Building Block Enables Developers to Embed Secure File Transfer Capability Rapidly and Directly Into Their Applications
OTTAWA, March 14 // -- Validian Corporation (BULLETIN BOARD: VLDI) , a leader in the development of application security software and solutions, today announced the completion and availability of Validian ASI SAFE (secure authenticated file exchange), the Company's first application building block designed to leverage the Validian ASI security framework. Validian ASI SAFE is a highly optimized, pre-built file transfer component. It doesn't just detect. It prevents the hacking of, and other unauthorized access to, applications. ASI SAFE also protects sensitive corporate data while in transit so that data never travels unencrypted, within the organization or across the Internet to customers and partners.
"File transfer lies at the heart of much of the communication underlying today's automated business processes," said Bruce Benn, CEO of Validian Corporation. "ASI SAFE provides software developers with a re-usable software component that can be embedded quickly into applications."
In today's interconnected economy, the quantity of sensitive information traveling between departments, across the supply chain, and through partner networks, is continually expanding. Existing file exchange solutions such as email and file transfer protocol (FTP), SSL (single sockets layer) for data encryption and existing perimeter- or host-based security solutions alone do not provide comprehensive protection and leave organizations exposed to potential security breaches.
Due to regulatory changes, and to heightened security concerns of application impersonation, identity theft and piracy, in industries such as healthcare, financial services, entertainment, transportation and government, many application architects now are reassessing their vulnerability profiles and adopting application security to address major security deficiencies. Faced with the challenge of securing the application base quickly, with limited budgets and a scarcity of specialized security programmers, many are turning to solutions -- such as Validian SAFE -- that simplify security programming complexities, accelerate the development process, and increase development team productivity.
Validian's Secure Authenticated File Exchange (SAFE) application building block consists of an Application Programming Interface (API) and library that simplify many recurring programming issues, such as configuring the file exchange environment, executing secure transfers, and monitoring the exchanges between applications. By leveraging the user-transparent Validian ASI security framework capabilities, such as authentication of the communicating applications, encryption and decryption of the data within the communicating applications, data compression, full automation of the key generation and lifecycle management for both symmetrical and public keys, and IP-address-independent address resolution, ASI SAFE further lowers the burden on programmers and helps them deliver robust implementations every time.
The product is available now for Windows-based platforms and requires Validian ASI.
About Validian
Validian Corporation is a leader in the research and development of innovative application-security and secure data-exchange software and solutions for public and private enterprises. Validian ASI(TM) is a software-only development and deployment environment that enables secure data exchange to be integrated directly into applications rapidly and easily, lowering development costs. ASI protects against attacks by authenticating applications, and encrypting and decrypting data within applications to ensure data exchanged between trusted applications is always encrypted and never travels in the clear. Cost-effective, simple-to-deploy and easy to manage, Validian solutions also facilitate security audit compliance. A U.S. corporation, Validian has offices in the United States, Canada and Switzerland.
CONTACT: Bruce Benn, President & CEO of Validian Corporation, +1-613-230-7211, ext. 226, or Bruce.Benn@validian.com
