Securing Multiple Connections
Over the past few years, desktop security and communications have evolved to innovative approaches with new technologies. In the local market, the basic encryption technology is available on the daily email system. In the consumer sector, there are developed device-code
generation technology like the Hong Kong Bank and the Bank of China. These technologies and approaches work well when customers are B2C
under the same environment or technology umbrella of the host organization. This involves efforts in designing the devices and the rolling
out of the devices to thousands of customers. What would happen if the customers are B2B located worldwide as vendors with different technologies set up?
It is difficult to force these dominant vendors to accept the proprietary devices. In addition, the roll out process involves extensive administration and coordination effort for vendors located in different countries.
The most critical part is the automation of data, which cannot be achieved by the manual handling of the device.
As an example the Hospital organization purchases drugs and medical equipments worldwide. These vendors are large and with sophisticated IT set up. And the other concerns include how safe is it? What are the cost effective benefits? Is there any industry acceptance?
How easy and flexible are these communication security geared to desktop applications? Certainly these are the biggest concerns
for most business enterprises and Governments.
To meet the new demanding requirements requested by business enterprises and Governments, new solutions are required in the marketplace. One of the new requirements requires multiple desktop application connections with multiple networking protocols. Is there any solution to handle multiple connections for vendors with different IT set ups? An example would be the Healthcare Organizations using different protocol solutions to communicate with each other using different networking protocols. Most of them exchange Insurance information between Healthcare Organizatons over ebMS, while connecting medical suppliers via AS2 and drugs logistic delivery company via FTPS.
Network and Security
The Internet is the de-facto global network and companies are using the Internet for communications to take advantage of the
lack of call charges and high bandwidth availability. Unfortunately, the Internet is inherently insecure with anybody who has access to
the routers being used for a connection able to look at the packets that are exchanged between computers. It is not a safe environment for
companies wishing to exchange business critical data and highly secretive information. Digital certificates bind an identity to a pair of electronic
keys that can be used to encrypt and sign digital information. A digital certificate makes it possible to verify someone's claim that they have the right to use a given key, helping to prevent people from using counterfeit keys to impersonate other users.
Used in conjunction with encryption, digital certificates provide a more complete security solution, assuring the identity of all parties involved in
a transaction. However, the high cost of certificates could be a major obstacle to the rapid uptake of protocols like the OFTP2.
The certificate costs imposed by existing CA’s could limit the growth of OFTP2 and may not allow flexible approaches for OEM supplier bases.
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