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SonicWALL acquires SSL VPN remote access company Aventail
SonicWALL, Inc. has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corporation. Aventail is a Seattle-based, privately-held provider of SSL VPN remote access solutions, for approximately $25 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in July, 2007 and is subject to customary conditions. SonicWALL expects that t...
Secure remote maintenance of production equipment
The maintenance of machines and plants by local service technicians, particularly at far away international locations, entails a high degree of travel, time and expense – which can quickly add up to 50% or more of the total costs for such work orders. For companies that need to change configurations of their machines frequently, or run systems that...
Payment Processing Firm Protects Online Payment Systems with SecureSphere
Imperva® has announced that Intuition Systems, a leading payment processing firm, has deployed the SecureSphere® Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Database Security Gateway (DSG) to meet compliance requirements imposed by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Intuition Systems chose SecureSphere for its unique ability to provide ...
Stonesoft launches seven VPN/Firewall and IPS appliances with support for up to 10 Gig
Stonesoft Corp. has announced the availability of seven new appliances aimed at providing both large and mid-market enterprises with secure, cost-effective and continuous network uptime. The product suites are designed to help organizations address the security and connectivity demands unique to their specific environments, with the flexibility to...
SonicWALL launches wireless firewalls with TotalSecure bundles
SonicWALL, Inc. has launched its new TZ 180, TZ 180 Wireless and TZ 190 3G Wireless firewalls. The new appliances offer faster Unified Threat Management (UTM) performance, enhanced ease of use, comprehensive security management and reporting capabilities, and 802.11i wireless support, all combined in SonicWALL’s TotalSecure offering. TotalSecur...
Tufin SecureTrack 4.0 Firewall Operations Management Solution with comprehensive usage analysis at the object level
Tufin Technologies has announced the release of SecureTrack 4.0. Tufin’s SecureTrack 4.0 is a comprehensive solution that allows enterprises to enhance the effectiveness of their firewall policies. SecureTrack supports Check Point, Cisco and Juniper firewalls to easily monitor, analyse and audit corporate policies – adding capabilities for fire...
Individual point security solutions vs unified threat management system
The minimum requirement for a unified threat management system (UTM), is a firewall, VPN, antivirus and intrusion detection/prevention. UTMs have, however, evolved from this to incorporate additional capabilities which can include URL filtering, spam blocking and spyware protection, as well as centralised management, monitoring, and logging capabil...
Aventail provides secure remote access via SSL VPN to Luxair
Aventail has announced that Luxair, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg's national airline company, has standardized on Aventail’s remote access controllers to provide its employees with secure remote access from any location in the world. Using identification and authentication codes to access Aventail’s SSL VPN, Luxair employees now have a secur...
Aventail SSL VPN platform for Secure Remote Access implemented at leading US builder
Aventail has announced that Barton Malow, one of the largest builders in the United States, with offices in eight states and project sites in 37 states, has standardized on Aventail’s SSL VPN platform ST2. By securely authenticating into the Aventail appliance, project managers, project engineers, accountants, sales people and executives can now ac...
How to successfully plan and implement a Security Event Management System
A Security Event Manager is a piece of software which takes as input logs and alerts from a variety of systems, such as Firewalls, Routers, and Servers, and attempts to inform the engineer of unusual occurrences which warrant further investigation. The SEM benefits from having available to it information coming from many systems at both the net...
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