Clavister AB, a leading provider of enterprise firewall and VPN solutions, together with Rainbow eSecurity, a Rainbow Technologies, Inc., (Nasdaq: RNBO) company and a leading solutions provider of digital content and transaction security for the Internet and Instant Private Webs (IPWs), today announced a technology partnership to provide strong two-factor authentication to enterprise VPN networks.

In addition to the strong encryption and authentication already present in Clavister's suite of carrier class firewalls and VPN products, organizations and users can now benefit from the secure two-factor authentication provided by Rainbow's USB based iKey tokens.

Rainbow’s iKey series provide a reliable and robust hardware security solution, specifically designed for use in Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) environments with high demands on strong authentication combined with simple deployment.

"With an increasing security awareness within enterprise organizations and within the public sector, the need for easy-to-use security systems becomes critical. Our partnership with Rainbow will allow us the opportunity to create customer solutions where the end users can benefit from the strong security of our firewall and VPN products and without compromising the simplicity", said John Vestberg, VP of Technology at Clavister.

"Our technology partnership with Clavister will leverage two-factor authentication in enterprise VPN environments and will simplify security for end user access to corporate resources,” said Gary Clark, vice president sales and marketing EMEA, at Rainbow Technologies London office. “The iKey makes it easy to add two-factor authentication to Clavister’s suite of enterprise firewall and VPN solutions providing end user customers with an added level of security that’s far stronger than usernames and passwords.”

For more information, please contact:

Rainbow Technologies
Dan Chmielewski / Gary Clark
Rainbow Technologies
Tel: +44 (0) 1932 579 200
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

Press contact:
Sarah Hewitt / Nicola Atkins
Strategic Alliance International
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 434 434
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

Clavister
Peter Emanuelsson
Product Manager, Supplementary Products
Tel: +46 660 29 92 00
John Vestberg
Vice President, Technology
Tel: +46 660 29 92 00


About Clavister
Clavister is a leading developer of high-performance IT/IP security. The products, based on unique technology, include carrier-class firewalls and VPN solutions. They have been awarded preferred choice by international press and are in use today by thousands of satisfied customers. In short; In a world where people depend on information, Clavister provides complete security solutions more cost-efficient than any competitor, always with Your business in mind.

Clavister was founded 1997 in Sweden. Its R&D and headquarters is situated in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden and its solutions are marketed and sold through sales offices, distributors and resellers in Europe and Asia. Clavister also offers its technology to OEM manufacturers.

About Rainbow iKey
IDC recently recognised the iKey as the World’s leading USB authentication token and anticipates the market for USB authentication tokens will grow from $6 million in 2000 to about $276.6 million by 2005. Rainbow’s iKey is the industry’s leading family of USB-based Web authentication tokens, and is available in versions for Microsoft Windows 2000 environments, as well as for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and high assurance environments.

About Rainbow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNBO)
Founded in 1984, Rainbow Technologies, a leading provider of proven information security solutions for mission-critical data and applications used in business, organization and government computing environments, has been breaking the security paradigm by making complex security simple to implement and use for more than two decades. With headquarters in Irvine, Calif., Rainbow maintains offices and authorized distributors throughout the world. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.rainbow.com.