Entrust Partner Type
ISV

Solution Category
Desktop, Web

Company Overview
Gradient Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of security solutions for the enterprise and the Internet/intranet markets. Gradient's NetCrusader Product Family integrates best-in-class security technologies for authentication and encryption with a common authorization model to provide a flexible, scalable security solution for the enterprise.

Product Description
As enterprises make their operations faster and more efficient by increasing access to mission-critical information, they also need an enterprise security infrastructure that can identify users (authentication), protect information (data privacy and integrity), and control access privileges (authorization). Gradient's NetCrusader Product Family integrates best-in-class security technologies for authentication and encryption solutions, including Entrust/PKI™, with the common NetCrusader authorization model to provide a flexible, scalable enterprise security infrastructure.

Compelling Reasons To Use Entrust And Gradient
NetCrusader is fully integrated with Entrust/PKI to provide complete Web security and access control in a managed PKI environment. NetCrusader:

• Leverages Entrust/PKI to secure mission critical Web content and applications, combining a rich PKI solution with a world class access control solution
• Provides Web Single Sign-On using Entrust Single Login, simplifying user access and reducing password management
• Web application permissions are separated from application logic, reducing development cost and simplifying
• Web application management
• Manages security for multiple Web servers from a single location to simplify management and enable consistent security policy

The added value to joint customers is the ability to authenticate users, encrypt communications, and provide access control in a Web environment using Entrust/PKI. The authentication, encryption and access control services provided by the combined solution constitute a very rich set of Web browser and Web server services.

Application Example
A large company wants to deploy an extranet for groups with different permission levels and provide them access to applications securely. To accomplish this, and to separate the assignment and management of access control from the development of the applications themselves, the company could use NetCrusader and Entrust/PKI.