BOSTON, August 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Crosscheck Networks SOAPSonar integrates with AET SafeSign Identity 
Client to test WS-Security using hardware tokens.

Crosscheck Networks, the leading provider of SOA Testing products, today
announced a partnership with A.E.T. Europe B.V. (AET), market leader in
strong authentication with cryptographic tokens and Digital ID Management.
The partnership enables Crosscheck Networks to provide SOA customers
worldwide the ability to test WS-Security operations using hardware based
smart cards and USB tokens as well as test secure SSL session with dynamic
X509 client authentication using the hardware smart card certificate. The
integration of SafeSign Identity Client (IC) with SOAPSonar testing product
allows customers to quickly validate the interoperability of SOA client
applications that utilize hardware-based smartcards for secure signed or
encrypted SOAP/XML messages when communicating with SOA infrastructure
components.

"AET is the market and technology leader when it comes to middleware for
cryptographic tokens. Crosscheck Networks is pleased to partner with a
company that delivers strong authentication worldwide to over 10 million
users with more than 70 cards and USB tokens from more than 10 different
manufacturers," said Jack Hembrough, Board Advisor Crosscheck Networks.

Crosscheck Networks' industry-leading SOA testing software, SOAPSonar, is
based on four pillars of SOA testing -- functional regression, performance,
security, and compliance. The product simplifies testing at each stage of the
SOA lifecycle.

"We are seeing increased use cases in Europe of SOA client applications
utilizing hardware-based smartcards for SOAP-XML message cryptography," said
Reinoud Weijman, Managing Director of AET. "SOAPSonar's integration with
SafeSign IC allows SOA customers to easily test hardware-based cryptography
for SOAP-XML before deploying production SOA client applications."

About AET

The Dutch company A.E.T. Europe B.V. (AET), headquartered in Arnhem and
founded in 1998, is committed to IT security. AET offers its customers
ingenious solutions based on worldwide accepted standards for e-commerce and
information security.

AET is setting new standards in the crucial business area of developing
middleware for smart cards and USB tokens with its SafeSign Identity Client.
Another of AET's bestsellers its BlueX Digital ID Management. This well-known
and extremely adaptable system supports the simplification and automation of
individual steps for the digital ID management process.

For more information, please visit http://www.aeteurope.com

About Crosscheck Networks

Crosscheck Network's mission is to provide products for testing,
diagnosing and controlling enterprise Web Services. Crosscheck Networks'
products provide QA professionals, security personnel, and compliance
officers with necessary information about the functional completeness,
scalability, security and interoperability compliance of their Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA). Through SOAPSonar(TM) -- industry leading
comprehensive SOA testing product -- IT professionals make more informed
decisions that enable their companies to stay within corporate quality and
regulatory boundaries. The SOA diagnostics architecture is the first in the
industry to encompass security, compliance, performance and functional
regression under a unified architectural framework. The architecture enables
the product to be deployed from the core to the perimeter of an enterprise.
Visit Crosscheck Networks at http://www.crosschecknet.com/

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