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Digital Signature Age Unleashed in Asia as Entegrity Solutions and Power Information
Security Sign Taiwan’s First Legally Binding Digital Contract
Entegrity Trust Services Platform™ and Signonline’s ASP Services Enable Groundbreaking
Event from Offices in Japan, Taiwan
SAN JOSE, CA, September 25, 2000 -
Entegrity Solutions® Corporation, a leader in Trust Solutions for business-to-business
(B2B) e-commerce, and Signonline, Inc., a leading application service provider
of on-line, legally enforceable electronic signatures and electronic dynamic
document storage and retrieval, today announced the signing of Taiwan’s first
legally binding digital contract. The contract was digitally signed today between
Entegrity Solutions, in Tokyo, and Power Information Security, in Taiwan. In
the contract, the two companies have agreed that Power Information Security,
the first and only Total Security Solution Provider in Taiwan, will distribute
the Trust Solutions of Entegrity Solutions to the Taiwan market.
This event relied on Signonline’s applications service provider (ASP) services
to enable safe transfer of the contract over the World Wide Web via a Portable
Document Format (PDF) file while ensuring the integrity of the document. The
Entegrity Trust Services Platform™ is used to integrate Signonline’s applications
to global trusted infrastructures for enablement of such groundbreaking events.
The signed document was then archived in Signonline's SAFE (Secure Accessible
File Environment) technology service, which allows companies to store, access
and manage their digital contracts in a secure environment.
"Governments and judicial systems around the world are formally accepting digital
signatures as legally binding. Entegrity is honored to partner with Power Info
Sec in Taiwan in this revolutionary step for global e-commerce," said Bob Frank,
vice president of Asia-Pacific for Entegrity Solutions. "We expect most countries
will rapidly accept digital signatures as legally binding and Entegrity looks
forward to enabling this trusted e-commerce worldwide."
“We have identified the potential market of total security solution services
for companies and government agencies in Taiwan and in Asia, with demands of
various natures and magnitudes,” said Louis H. Pao, vice president of Power
Information Security Corp. “Introducing Entegrity Trust Solutions into the Taiwanese
market is only our first step in embarking on the B2B security service market
in Asia. We will continue to bring in new information security technologies
to help businesses in Taiwan and Asia to conduct e-commerce safely and to face
the challenges of information security in the 21st Century.”
About Power Information Security
A joint venture partner with PriceWaterhouseCoopers Taiwan, Power Information
Security Corp. is a security services provider of IT risk management, security
consulting, security system integration, and B2B e-commerce security solutions.
Power Information Security Corp. has its headquarter located in Taipei, Taiwan.
The company now owns System Integration Department, Security Consulting Department,
Security Lab and Knowledge Management Department. For more information about
Power Information Security Corp., visit the company’s web site at www.powerinfosec.com.
About Signonline
Signonline (www.signonline.com) is a business-to-business (B2B) application
service provider (ASP) that empowers companies to execute legally binding digital
contracts and documents online and store them electronically in a dynamic file
environment. Signonline is the first company to provide e-business with beginning-to-end
solutions for both B2B and B2C applications. Signonline is headquartered in
Irvine, CA, with technical operations in Tucson, AZ. More information about
Signonline can be found on the company’s Web site at www.signonline.com.
About Entegrity Solutions
Entegrity Solutions provides Trust Solutions, enabling trusted B2B e-commerce
for the Global 1000. Based on a comprehensive, standards-based Trust Platform,
Entegrity-Enabled™ software and service offerings allow companies to rapidly
deploy trusted B2B applications in a diverse, cross-enterprise environment with
minimum investment. Entegrity’s offerings include Entegrity NetCrusader™ access
management products for securing Web, CORBA, and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
applications, Entegrity AssureMail™, providing hosted trusted information delivery,
Entegrity SafePages™, providing secured LDAP and X.500 directory access and
management and the Entegrity Trust Services Platform™ (TSP) for Identrus. Entegrity
Trust Consulting and Hosting Services are offered worldwide. Headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., the company has sales, operations and R&D facilities in Massachusetts,
Maryland, Sweden, the UK, and Germany. For more information visit the Entegrity
Web site at www.entegrity.com.
Entegrity Solutions is a registered trademark, and Entegrity-Enabled™
, Entegrity NetCrusader™ , Entegrity AssureMail™, Entegrity SafePages™ and Entegrity
Trust Services Platform™ are trademarks of Entegrity Solutions Corporation.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
For
information about Entegrity Solutions:
Patrick Corman
Corman Communications
(650) 326-9648
patrick@cormancom.com