Datamonitor said that companies are finally realizing that passwords, authentication tokens, Secure Socket Layer, firewalls or virtual private networks don't really make the grade on a standalone basis because they fail to address all the critical network security needs, one of which is authentication. Verena Salzmann, managing analyst at Datamonitor, and author of the report, said that PKI is also the only technology, which combines the necessary traits of flexibility and scalability that are demanded by ebusiness applications. Also by 2006, Salzmann predicted that wireless PKI will account for 45 percent of total PKI revenues, a trend that will continue to escalate as the uptake of third-generation services increases. Get your MBizCentral news delivered by e-mail newsletters. Printer friendly version.
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