RSA, the security division of EMC, is offering its BSAFE technology for free as part of a new initiative aimed at independent software developers and project leaders. In addition, RSA has also launched an online community to provide support, answers and strategies from security experts.
EMC's RSA security division is offering free downloads of its BSAFE
Share encryption technology as part of a new initiative targeting
software developers.
The program is dubbed the
RSA Share Project and
also includes a new online community meant to provide developers access
to support, information and services, officials at RSA told eWEEK.
"Basically our view of the market right now is that securing
information and securing credentials is really complicated by the fact
that there are things that move everywhere, and it's very difficult to
solve that problem without having security everywhere," said Tom Corn,
vice president of products and strategy for RSA. "That doesn't happen
unless security starts getting built into physical infrastructure and
we can create an ecosystem where things work together well."
Companies constrained by small IT budgets have
sometimes found the costs associated with using RSA BSAFE code
difficult to overcome, he added. The availability of no-cost RSA BSAFE
Share software developer kits changes that.
"In our view, solving this problem was more than just making certain
of the technology available at no cost but actually helping kind of
build a community around it to assist that and also to enable us to
provide higher-end services to people who needed professional services
in building these kinds of products," Corn said.
The RSA BSAFE Share software is available for download on the RSA
Share Project community Web site, offered as SDKs supporting C/C++ and
Java. According to RSA, the products are fully interoperable with the
thousands of applications already embedded with RSA BSAFE encryption.
For applications that require FIPS 140 validated cryptography, RSA
will continue to license its own FIPS-compliant version of RSA BSAFE
software. RSA plans to eventually provide more functionality
beyond just encryption with no-cost SDKs designed to help ease and manage secure application development.
"The global software developer community embraces a variety of
commercial, free and open source development tools, each that excel in
specific areas and are each appropriate in specific use scenarios,"
said Paul Kurtz, executive director of the Software Assurance Forum for
Excellence in Code (SAFECode), in a statement. "RSA is offering a very
simple way to get proven security capabilities into the hands of those
who desire a higher level of security assurance in their application
development projects."
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