ChosenSecurity’s TC EID Quickstart a Finalist for Access Control

NEWTON, MA – Oct.1, 2008 – ChosenSecurity, Inc., the leading provider of on-demand digital certificate management services, today announced that Access Control & Security Systems has named TC EID Quickstart a Finalist for its New Product of the Year Award.

TC EID Quickstart is a web-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that provides organizations of any size with on-demand digital certificate management without the need to build and manage their own certificate authority.

The New Product of the Year Award sponsored by Access Control & Security Systems (a Penton Media publication) honors excellence in new product development in the security industry. The award showcases the most innovative product of the current year and recognizes the talent and commitment of the people involved in every aspect of development, from concept through sales.

According to Steve Pace, Senior Vice President of World Wide Operations, “Before Quickstart, if organizations wanted to realize the benefits of industry standard x.509 certificates, they needed to build and maintain their own certificate authority. Quickstart changed the rules. We are honored that Access Control & Security Systems has recognized this offering for its excellence.”

TC EID Quickstart provides the following benefits:

• Quickstart adds an on-demand delivery model to a proven technology. Digital certificates work, but are expensive to maintain. Quickstart takes the cost and complexity out of the equation, using a web based architecture to deliver a mature, proven technology to a broader market.
• Quickstart requires no footprint or specialized technical expertise at the client site and is not a traditional managed service approach requiring capital expenditures. Clients are up and running in days and can even install the product as a free trial. Clients generally implement the solution 70% faster than traditional methods for about 70% less cost.
• Quickstart’s ease of implementation and cost advantage makes it an attractive alternative to OTP (one time password) token implementations with the upside that digital certificates can be used for many other trust applications from digital signing to data encryption and email security.

Eligible products for the Product of the Year award are those that were introduced to the market between July 31, 2007 and August 29, 2008. Contest entries are judged by a panel of industry professionals and experts selected by the Access Control & Security Systems editorial staff. The 20 finalists will be published in the October 2008 issue of the magazine, and the Product of the Year will be featured in the December 2008 issue. Visit http://www.securitysolutions.com for more information.

ChosenSecurity, Inc. (www.chosensecurity.com)

ChosenSecurity provides digital trust between employees, clients and suppliers doing business electronically through on-demand certificate management services. The company’s solutions enable a wide range of digital trust applications to provide strong authentication, secure e-mail, digital signatures, data encryption and support compliance with privacy and other regulations. ChosenSecurity was the first to provide digital certificate management through a Software as a Service model and remains the leader through its breakthrough economics, versatility and implementation speed for enterprises. Unlike traditional PKI and private certificate authority options, ChosenSecurity solutions can be implemented in 70% less time and 70% less cost.

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