Pioneering member of the WLAN Smartcard Alliance, RAAK Technologies selects Tarmin Solutions Indus Intelligence powered applications to deliver smartcard enabled highly secure desktop identity management and security solutions

Partnership to accelerate deployment of end-to-end strong authentication solutions for corporate desktops and users

London UK, Austin, TX (PRWEB) December 1, 2003 --
Taking aim at the gap between corporate identity management initiatives and the individual user experience, RAAK Technologies, a pioneer in secure wireless authentication solutions has partnered with Tarmin Solutions to ease the delivery and exchange of secure authenticated content by corporate users. Under the partnership agreement, RAAK will have complete access to Tarmins product line, which includes OfficeGuard, Tarmins award winning desktop security suite for Microsoft Windows environments.

The depth and range of OfficeGuards capabilities is what drew us to Tarmin, said Dan Cunningham, CEO RAAK Technologies. By incorporating Tarmins rich-client software into our customers existing desktop infrastructure, we expect to improve the delivery of RAAKs smart-card solutions and eliminate many of the redundant point solutions that contribute to less not more security for the enterprise."

Through its open support for leading strong authentication protocols, OfficeGuard provides an ideal platform for delivery of high assurance smartcard aware applications to the corporate desktop. By delivering an effective means for organizations to enable strong authentication across a heterogeneous Windows client environment and minimizing the need to re-engineer existing business processes and procedures, Tarmin Solutions OfficeGuard delivers tremendous value and opportunity.

Tarmin is very pleased that RAAK has chosen to represent its Indus Intelligence powered product line, noted Tarmin Solutions President and CEO, Shahbaz Ali. An important goal at Tarmin has been developing techniques and technologies that help speed the delivery of strong authentication, easy to manage encryption and related capabilities in a manner that is familiar and easy to use, thus empowering the individual and organization. The RAAK partnership is another very positive step towards fulfilling this vision and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship together."

About Tarmin Solutions Ltd.
Tarmin Solutions provides life cycle, end-to-end information security solutions that make it easier to securely manage enterprise users, sensitive communications and information. Based upon its Indus Intelligence Platform (I-IP), Tarmin Solutions products uniquely leverages a company's existing infrastructure to manage and protect the integrity and confidentiality of information residing on desktop computers and server configurations. Tarmin Solutions is headquartered in London, England, with offices in North America and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.tarmin.com
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