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January/February 2010
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Product News: PKWARE® Enhances PKZIP® and SecureZIP® Server with v12.4 Release

As the inventor and continuing innovator of the ZIP standard, PKWARE is dedicated to maintaining its product lines to update product versions, reduce security concerns, and resolve product issues. As such, PKWARE recently released the v12.4 maintenance update of PKZIP and SecureZIP Server Standard and Enterprise Editions on all available server platforms – Windows®, UNIX® (HP-UX®, Solaris®, AIX®), and Linux®.

Enhancements for PKZIP and SecureZIP Server v12.4 on all server platforms include:

  • Full support for opening and extracting files with the .zipx extension
  • Improved retrieval of digital certificates from LDAP providers
  • The -lowercase command used in extracting files from archives now has two sub-options:
    • archive (default) – indicates only the path information stored in the archive will be made lowercase
    • full – indicates all of the extract path will be made lowercase, including the extract to path specified on the command line

Enhancements for PKZIP and SecureZIP for Windows Server v12.4 include:

  • Supports operation on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  • 64-bit edition for use with 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7
  • Added PPMd support for Windows 64-bit systems

“PKWARE is committed to advancing our products,” said Jim Peterson, Chief Scientist for PKWARE. “And maintenance releases are key to ensuring our customers continue to receive value from their investment in PKWARE solutions.”

Free 30-day trial versions for commercial use are offered for download on PKWARE’s Website by clicking here.





PKWARE eNewsletter
January/February 2010
eNews
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Product News: Learn About New Release of SecureZIP® and PKZIP® for z/OS® v11

To coincide with the recent release of SecureZIP and PKZIP for z/OS v11, PKWARE® hosted Webinars that overviewed the products’ significant new performance improvements that help organizations further maximize their mainframes – an important consideration in today’s economic climate. These Webinars are now available to view on-demand.

SecureZIP for z/OS v11
SecureZIP for z/OS now enables integration with mainframe security servers IBM® RACF®, CA Top Secret®, and CA ACF2™, supporting capabilities required to comply with contemporary mainframe data security best practices.

  • The on-demand Webinar overviews:
  • How these new capabilities support best practices of the separation of duties between data security professionals charged with managing encryption keys or passwords and systems operators charged with the orderly execution of jobs
  • How encryption policy can be technically enforced, even on the multi-user mainframe environment
  • How SecureZIP for z/OS helps organizations use the mainframe as the best, most secure platform for generating and managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) digital certificates and asymmetric key pairs
  • The performance benefits of using SecureZIP for z/OS’ integration with IBM Integrated Cryptographic Services Facility (ICSF) for hardware encryption acceleration

PKZIP for z/OS v11
The latest release of PKZIP for z/OS delivers significant performance enhancements and feature improvements, helping companies further stretch their investments in mainframe capacity.

  • The on-demand Webinar overviews:
  • The performance analysis comparison of v11 with prior versions of PKZIP
  • The considerable resource savings realized with v11
  • How this information can be used to help justify the effort and expense of accepting and upgrading to the new version (if a current customer on maintenance)

Also available is a selection of whitepapers, one for each of the existing version of the products, which highlight the performance enhancements and resource savings available to customers via a simple upgrade to v11.

View the Webinar recordings and whitepapers today!