* RPM authenticates and encrypts every transmission on your network up to 300 times faster than PKI
I like to think of PKI — Public Key Infrastructure — as better than no encryption at all, but only slightly. It’s cumbersome to set up and maintain. It’s expensive in terms of both money and CPU cycles. And it’s off the end of the scale when it comes to user unfriendliness. I sure wish there was something better.
I’ve talked about Voltage Security’s Identity-based Encryption (IBE) and SAFE (Signatures and Authentication for Everyone — available only to members of SAFE-Biopharma), but now there’s another possibility that’s available to everyone.
Denver’s Relevant Security is offering Real Privacy Management (RPM), which, according to Sales Vice President Kirk Byles, “…is small enough, fast enough and efficient enough to perform continuous mutual authentication and security of all transactions in real-time on any device.” In fact, Relevant Security claims that RPM is the only solution that authenticates and encrypts every single transmission on your network up to 300 times faster than PKI.
Among the features Byles touts for RPM:
* Mutual and constant authentication of all network access and control points for every transaction for both sender and recipient.
* Continuous key management that secures every transmission with a fresh key.
* Single transmission operation for total asynchronous security.
* Minimal code space in multiple platforms.
* Flexible Trust Model — supports federated trust as well as hierarchical control and peer-to-peer models for integration into any business data model.
* Total data security from end to end.
* Provable algorithm mathematics for future assurance.
Besides the speed advantage over PKI, it’s also said that RPM is smaller and more scalable — the code base is less than 10KB, small enough to fit on any embedded device, and can support millions of users.
One of the better selling points in my mind is simplicity: Byles touts the easy expansion, operation, implementation and system maintenance. And from a rollout perspective, it requires no behavior changes for the user.
If high security is among your needs, and speed and ease-of-use are important, then check out RPM; it just might be the right choice for you.
Make some space in your holiday shopping schedule for some upcoming seminars of note. From the IdM Journal Event queue:
Dec. 8 — Getting the Big Picture: How Access Governance fits into IT Governance and Risk Management
Dec. 9 — XACML: The Holy Grail of Access Governance?
Dec. 9 — Access Governance: The Next Generation of IAM
