Feb, 2002 : Kontiki and VeriSign to Deliver Secure Digital Media

📅 February 22, 2002 - Kontiki (kontiki.com), a company that digital media deliveryover the Internet, has announced that it is teaming with VeriSign, Inc.(verisign.com) to provide enterprise customers advanced protection services available for next-generation digital content distribution.

Kontiki is among the first Web services providers to support VeriSign'sDigital Trust Services framework, an open standards-based approach providingseamless interfaces to VeriSign's digital identity and addressing,authentication and authorization, and transaction services.
"Across the board, our customers have told us about the importance of havingthe highest levels of security and trust to enable the online distributionof their digital media," said Mike Homer, chairman and CEO of Kontiki."VeriSign's open framework will help ensure that enterprises usingnext-generation Web services, including those delivered through Kontiki,will have the most advanced security and data integrity protectionavailable."
VeriSign's Digital Trust Services framework is designed to enable trustedWeb services and other e-business applications. The open approach, supportedby a range of other platform and service providers, makes VeriSign's rangeof digital trust services more accessible through platform integration,standards-based application programming interfaces, developer tools and aservice provider platform for systems integrators, value-added resellers andlarge-scale service providers.
The Kontiki Delivery Network is a secure, managed, software-based contentdelivery network that works with an enterprise's existing software, serversand security infrastructure. It provides access control, network securityand content redistribution control to enable enterprises to use rich media.