In a recent publication from Financial-i (www.financial-i.com), LiveEnsure™ and Palm Tree Technology were featured as the ideal solution for securing transaction banking in 2010 and beyond. Entitiled “ A 2010 Global Transaction Handbook: Cash and Liquidity Management”, co-authors Nigel Woodward of Intel, John Burton of Petra Financial and Ross Macdonald of Palm Tree Technology cover the risks, trends and requirements of secure mobile cash transactions in Web 2.0.


To quote:

“Today security is cumbersome, often expensive, reliant on third parties and difficult to scale. For take up to achieve critical mass and thereby mass acceptance of the use of the mobile for financial transactions – a security solution needs to incorporate the following attributes:

• Stateless (no physical manifestation – either a dongle or software download);
• Secure against all known threats (validated by third parties);
• Simple (easy to use with minimal user training /education);
• Readily available (self serve registration on-line/SaaS solution);
• Easy to integrate into mobile applications; ␣ Not be reliant on third parties for
• authentication.

“...Working in this space is PalmTree Technology, with their Live Ensure™ service capability, which takes a different approach to security that is non- nvasive and significantly easier to implement and operate than techniques dependent on peripherals. Palmtree Technology take a market approach to security – the issue is cross-function and geographic – not case by case based on individual transaction types. Taking identity at market level, cloud thinking is a key construct for Live Ensure™ for tying access and usage policies to provisioning/monitoring systems that span external and internal processes. A multi-factor authentication process sets the stage for transactional security that assumes the bright lines of traditional security technology are approaching obsolescence....”


To read the entire handbook, download here:

Cash and Liquidity Handbook 2010

Tags: intel, liveensure, security, identity, press

Palm Tree is proud to announce it has been selected as a finalist in the HP Global Cloud Security Challenge 2010. Palm shares the final round with Axsionics(Switzerland), Catbird(USA), CloudSwitch(USA), DSG at Imperial College of London(UK), Kerosene(USA), PerspecSys(Canada) and WhiteBox Security(Israel). If selected as the final winner, Palm will be awarded a cash prize, exclusive access to the HP Labs for product testing and a presentation debut at the 5th Annual GSC Summit in London. We are very excited about this validation of our innovative technology for security the identity in the cloud, and look forward to future competitions and validations. Stay tuned for final competition results due in June 2010.

Tags: HP, security, award, liveensure, identity

Palm is proud to announce an extension to the early access registration for the LiveEnsure™ SaaS Authentication service. Please visit us at www.liveensure.com to register and submit your site, application or company for early access to the breakthrough cloud security solution coming this summer.

Tags: liveensure, beta, security

Palm Tree Technology is proud to announce its entry into the 2010 HP Labs Global Cloud Security Challenge. Prizes include cash awards and the opportunity to conduct advanced product testing at HP Labs. Stay tuned as we update this blog for progress and results/learnings from the experience.

Tags: HP, challenge, identity, security, liveensure

Palm Tree Technology announces the release of mobile agents for ID Insure™ 2.5. Design specifically for iPhone and Blackberry applications, the ID Insure™ mobile agents offer developers the ability to secure their apps with ID Insure™ Digimetrics™. For more information or to become a development partner for ID Insure™ Mobile, contact us.

Tags: iphone, mobile, agents, blackberry, nokia, identity, security, liveensure

Palm Tree announces their latest innovation for securing the Internet. Live Ensure™ is a revolutionary new multi-factor SaaS authentication security solution - Utility Security™ for Web 2.0. Simply configure your custom authentication agent and policy, consume them as a light-weight web service API or embedded library, mashup with your site, application or mobile offering, and pay for only what you use. There are no contracts, seat licenses, cards, dongles, certificates or software to download. Live Ensure™ works on any laptop, desktop, mobile or smart device. There is nothing to learn, it is simple and seamless for your users and deploys/scales to massive populations instantly via cloud computing. Live Ensure™ is powered by the world's leading authentication technology (Digimetrics™) and is backed by insurance coverage from the biggest name in global risk management.

Click to learn more and register for the Live Ensure™ beta program in fall 2009.

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