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NEW YORK, SEP. 8, 2003
State of Washington Renews PKI and Authentication Contract with Digital Signature Trust for Identity Management Services
Expands successful digital certificate program and is positioning itself to meet new guidelines from the Federal government
The State of Washington has renewed its master contract for PKI and Identity Authentication with Identrus™ subsidiary, Digital Signature Trust (DST). DST has already developed a PKI-based identity management program for the State of Washington based on a contract from March 2000 and will continue to enhance that program under the renewed agreement.
"The State of Washington recognized the potential early on to create new efficiencies and offer beneficial government services online," said Stuart McKee, Washington's CIO. "Digital Signature Trust helped us to achieve this with a successful identity management program that uses digital certificates for secure government transactions. With over 30 applications in use in Washington today, we now are looking to DST to help us expand the program to provide more efficient, secure and convenient transaction-based services to the citizens of Washington state. We are pleased to leverage economies and expertise in the private sector to drastically reduce our time to market for mission-critical applications."
DST developed the State of Washington's PKI-based identity management program to enable the online authentication of state employees, individual citizens and businesses for transactions with the state. With digital certificates from DST, they can file documents online with legally binding digital signatures and gain online access to appropriate resources.
"The State of Washington is a strong example of how government can improve services with secure and trusted online options. As the first state to fully embrace digital certificates, Washington has introduced a growing number of highly accessible solutions that meet the diverse needs of its citizens," said Karen Wendel, Identrus CEO. "In fact, Washington is well positioned to meet new guidelines from the federal government to provide PKI-based identity management solutions."
DST is providing a range of services to support the State of Washington program. It acts as the Certificate Authority for the state, hosting all servers and equipment for the program. DST provides authentication for internal state government employees as well as businesses and state citizens. Other services include Web-based registration and retrieval of identity credentials, a roaming credential service and support of SSL certificates.
About Digital Signature Trust, an Identrus Company
Digital Signature Trust, LLC (DST), a subsidiary of Identrus, LLC provides managed identity authentication services combining hosting, professional services and extensive PKI implementation experience. DST provides services to state government and is the leading provider of federally sponsored, interoperable electronic identity credentials under the GSA's ACES program and DoD's IECA program. DST partners with systems integrators, software developers, smart card and token providers, as well as experts on identity management, security and fraud to help government agencies achieve greater application security and meet e-Government objectives. More information is available at www.trustdst.com. For more information on Identrus, visit www.identrust.com.
About the Washington State Department of Information Services
The Department of Information Services (DIS) provides telecommunications, computing and digital government services to more than 700 state agencies, boards and commissions, local governments, tribal organizations and qualifying non-profits. DIS operates a secure, statewide standards-based telecommunications network providing reliable, economical voice, data and video communications. The DIS data center is one of the largest in the Northwest, combining both client server and mainframe computing in a secure, controlled environment. The DIS Web address is http://www.wa.gov/dis, and the Internet starting point for Washington state online services and information is http://access.wa.gov.
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