BlueNote Networks Teams with RSA to Bring a Two-Factor User Authentication to Enterprise Internet Telephony
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Jeff Pike
As an Account Strategist for PerkettPR, I provide public relations services to BlueNote Networks, a provider of enterprise VoIP software. For more information on BlueNote, visit http://www.bluenotenetworks.com. By Jeff Pike
Published on 02/13/2008
BlueNote Networks, the leading provider of Business Communications Platforms for delivering real-time interactive communications as services in an enterprise applications architecture, today announced that it has joined the RSA Secured® Partner Program to deliver a technically interoperable solution offering two-factor authentication from RSA for users accessing corporate voice services over the Internet. The interoperability between BlueNote SessionSuite and RSA SecurID® solution helps positively identify nomadic users, such as teleworkers, who attempt to access enterprise communication services. BlueNote can now provide enterprises with a higher level of service protection, and remove another barrier to leveraging the economics and reach of the Internet for corporate communications.
BlueNote Networks Teams with RSA to Bring a Two-Factor User Authentication to Enterprise Internet Telephony
Tewksbury, MA - February 12, 2008 - BlueNote Networks, the leading provider of Business Communications Platforms for delivering real-time interactive communications as services in an enterprise applications architecture, today announced that it has joined the RSA Secured® Partner Program to deliver a technically interoperable solution offering two-factor authentication from RSA for users accessing corporate voice services over the Internet. The interoperability between BlueNote SessionSuite and RSA SecurID® solution helps positively identify nomadic users, such as teleworkers, who attempt to access enterprise communication services. BlueNote can now provide enterprises with a higher level of service protection, and remove another barrier to leveraging the economics and reach of the Internet for corporate communications.
Teleworking has become a strategic initiative in many companies, and ubiquitous Internet access is enabling greater mobility and a distributed workforce, allowing employees to be productive at work regardless of their physical location. However, until now, security concerns over voice communications have prevented many enterprises from fully realizing the benefits of using the Internet for collaboration and communications. By leveraging proven and widely deployed RSA SecurID technology, in conjunction with other security capabilities inherent to SessionSuite, BlueNote is now offering customers a higher level of secure Internet telephony, helping to protect enterprises against toll fraud; impersonation; unauthorized user access and management access; call hijacking and eavesdropping; and DoS attacks. These capabilities allow organizations to more safely leverage the public Internet to improve employee communications and reduce telecommunications expenditures.
Specifically, when two-factor user authentication from RSA is enabled, SessionSuite requires users to identify themselves with two unique factors - something they know (such as a password or PIN), and something they have (such as an RSA SecurID hardware or software authenticator) - before they are granted access to secure corporate voice services. Enterprises can then deliver voice services over the public Internet without exposing their private network and IT infrastructure to security vulnerabilities. The BlueNote solution works with both soft phones and hard phones and supports a variety of RSA SecurID authenticators including hardware tokens, software tokens, and smart cards.
"An effective strategy to mitigate information risk is essential to the growth and success of an organization. Companies must feel confident that vital information remains secure, wherever it resides within the extended enterprise," said D.J. Long, senior director, Corporate Development at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "The RSA Secured technology partnership between BlueNote and RSA helps joint customers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage digital identities of those who use the Internet for mission-critical communications."
"From its inception, SessionSuite has focused on allowing enterprises to deliver corporate voice services over the public Internet in a convenient, secure and reliable manner," said Alan Rosenberg, director of product management for BlueNote Networks. "In teaming with RSA, BlueNote is once again demonstrating its commitment to its enterprise customers, offering them the security they need to truly exploit the benefits of having a remote workforce."
BlueNote's SessionSuite software platforms enable workers to take their office phone numbers and all their corporate voice services with them. Any remote worker with a broadband Internet connection can place, receive and control telephone calls securely, as if using his/her office phone. SessionSuite can either stand alone or integrate and modernize any existing PBX infrastructure. SessionSuite is based on industry standards such as SIP, and can interoperate with both hard and soft phones from multiple vendors, including BlueNote's SessionSuite Desktop soft client.
About BlueNote Networks
BlueNote Networks is driving the creation of communications-enabled business applications with its award-winning SessionSuite® Business Communications Platforms. BlueNote Networks solutions combine the preeminent features of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) with Web services to drive innovation, while radically lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise voice, video and data services. SessionSuite software products form the foundation for enabling globally-reachable communication services and integrated workflow applications, while leveraging existing telephony and IT infrastructures.
BlueNote Networks is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.bluenotenetworks.com.
About the RSA Secured Partner Program
The RSA Secured Partner Program is one of the largest alliance programs of its type, bringing over a dozen years of experience and hundreds of complementary solutions together. RSA SecurID®, RSA® Access Manager, RSA® Digital Certificate Manager, RSA® Federated Identity Manager and RSA® Key Manager certification programs bring added assurance to customers that the solutions they are deploying are certified as interoperable with industry leading products, helping them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. The RSA Secured Partner Program reflects RSA's commitment to providing standards-based interoperability and mutual vendor support to customers using its identity assurance and access management solutions. For more information, please visit www.rsa.com.
RSA SecurID® Two-Factor Authentication
The RSA SecurID system is as simple to use as entering a password, but significantly more secure. Used in conjunction with RSA® Authentication Manager software, an RSA SecurID authenticator functions like an ATM card for a company network, requiring users to identify themselves with two unique factors - something they know (a password or PIN), and something they have (such as an RSA SecurID hardware or software token) - before they are granted access to secure business information.
RSA, Secured, and SecurID are registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Julie Blake
PerkettPR, Inc.
For BlueNote Networks
P: 781-344-4131
E: julie@perkettpr.com
Teleworking has become a strategic initiative in many companies, and ubiquitous Internet access is enabling greater mobility and a distributed workforce, allowing employees to be productive at work regardless of their physical location. However, until now, security concerns over voice communications have prevented many enterprises from fully realizing the benefits of using the Internet for collaboration and communications. By leveraging proven and widely deployed RSA SecurID technology, in conjunction with other security capabilities inherent to SessionSuite, BlueNote is now offering customers a higher level of secure Internet telephony, helping to protect enterprises against toll fraud; impersonation; unauthorized user access and management access; call hijacking and eavesdropping; and DoS attacks. These capabilities allow organizations to more safely leverage the public Internet to improve employee communications and reduce telecommunications expenditures.
Specifically, when two-factor user authentication from RSA is enabled, SessionSuite requires users to identify themselves with two unique factors - something they know (such as a password or PIN), and something they have (such as an RSA SecurID hardware or software authenticator) - before they are granted access to secure corporate voice services. Enterprises can then deliver voice services over the public Internet without exposing their private network and IT infrastructure to security vulnerabilities. The BlueNote solution works with both soft phones and hard phones and supports a variety of RSA SecurID authenticators including hardware tokens, software tokens, and smart cards.
"An effective strategy to mitigate information risk is essential to the growth and success of an organization. Companies must feel confident that vital information remains secure, wherever it resides within the extended enterprise," said D.J. Long, senior director, Corporate Development at RSA, The Security Division of EMC. "The RSA Secured technology partnership between BlueNote and RSA helps joint customers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage digital identities of those who use the Internet for mission-critical communications."
"From its inception, SessionSuite has focused on allowing enterprises to deliver corporate voice services over the public Internet in a convenient, secure and reliable manner," said Alan Rosenberg, director of product management for BlueNote Networks. "In teaming with RSA, BlueNote is once again demonstrating its commitment to its enterprise customers, offering them the security they need to truly exploit the benefits of having a remote workforce."
BlueNote's SessionSuite software platforms enable workers to take their office phone numbers and all their corporate voice services with them. Any remote worker with a broadband Internet connection can place, receive and control telephone calls securely, as if using his/her office phone. SessionSuite can either stand alone or integrate and modernize any existing PBX infrastructure. SessionSuite is based on industry standards such as SIP, and can interoperate with both hard and soft phones from multiple vendors, including BlueNote's SessionSuite Desktop soft client.
About BlueNote Networks
BlueNote Networks is driving the creation of communications-enabled business applications with its award-winning SessionSuite® Business Communications Platforms. BlueNote Networks solutions combine the preeminent features of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) with Web services to drive innovation, while radically lowering the cost and complexity of enterprise voice, video and data services. SessionSuite software products form the foundation for enabling globally-reachable communication services and integrated workflow applications, while leveraging existing telephony and IT infrastructures.
BlueNote Networks is headquartered in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.bluenotenetworks.com.
About the RSA Secured Partner Program
The RSA Secured Partner Program is one of the largest alliance programs of its type, bringing over a dozen years of experience and hundreds of complementary solutions together. RSA SecurID®, RSA® Access Manager, RSA® Digital Certificate Manager, RSA® Federated Identity Manager and RSA® Key Manager certification programs bring added assurance to customers that the solutions they are deploying are certified as interoperable with industry leading products, helping them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. The RSA Secured Partner Program reflects RSA's commitment to providing standards-based interoperability and mutual vendor support to customers using its identity assurance and access management solutions. For more information, please visit www.rsa.com.
RSA SecurID® Two-Factor Authentication
The RSA SecurID system is as simple to use as entering a password, but significantly more secure. Used in conjunction with RSA® Authentication Manager software, an RSA SecurID authenticator functions like an ATM card for a company network, requiring users to identify themselves with two unique factors - something they know (a password or PIN), and something they have (such as an RSA SecurID hardware or software token) - before they are granted access to secure business information.
RSA, Secured, and SecurID are registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security, Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contact:
Julie Blake
PerkettPR, Inc.
For BlueNote Networks
P: 781-344-4131
E: julie@perkettpr.com