New UTM50 Appliance Stops More Threats than the Competition while adding Active Directory Integration and Increased Throughput to Serve Growing Businesses
NETGEAR announced the introduction of the NETGEAR ProSecure UTM50 Unified Threat Management Appliance (UTM50). The UTM50 is the latest addition to NETGEAR’s award winning ProSecure UTM line, which protects businesses from the exponentially growing number of virus and malware threats, dangerous websites, spam emails, and hackers that threaten business environments today. Optimized for larger businesses and built with scalability in mind, the UTM50 enables businesses to protect themselves through a wide array of tools including firewall, SSL and IPSec VPN, URL filtering, network antivirus, and antispam. Widely lauded and recognized worldwide in 2010 by leading security publications as a producer of industry-leading UTMs, NETGEAR continues to outpace the competition and challenge the existing order of small and mid-market business security solutions.
The ProSecure UTM50 is an extension of the award-winning ProSecure UTM10 and UTM25 Unified Threat Management series. In addition to the benefits of these appliances, the ProSecure UTM50 integrates with Microsoft Active Directory enabled environments for single-sign-on security policies – an almost universal requirement for larger businesses around the world.
“The integration of the UTM50′s security policies with Microsoft Active Directory made the solution a great fit for our business,” said Frank Burnham, O’Donnell, Ficenec, Wills & Ferdig, LLP, a professional services firm that specializes in Accounting, Tax, and Audit. “Given the dynamic threat environment facing organizations today, we found the ProSecure UTM50 to be the most effective device in offering us a full featured, centralized, and flexible security component essential for network operations. We were able to achieve increasing employee productivity on the Internet through the URL filtering features and reduce our threat exposure substantially.” Read the rest of this entry »
InSigh VM Ready for High Throughput Access and Border Control
AOptix Technologies announced the commercial product release of InSight VM, the second in a series of products from the iris recognition system innovator. The InSight VM reflects a vertical orientation of all components so that the new form factor is slender with a compact footprint. It also features an elegant and contemporary industrial design that is appropriate for installation in public spaces such as modern airports and office buildings.
The InSight VM operates at a nominal 2 meter stand-off distance and employs the company’s proprietary Adaptive Optics technology to fully automate the iris capture process at a typical 2 seconds per eye.
The system’s imaging functionality is identical to the company’s original InSight SD system, capturing pristine iris images at a distance of 2 meters. Its industry leading .75 cubic meter capture volume allows virtually everyone from ADA-specified wheelchair height to over 7 feet (2.15 meters) tall to position themselves with minimal effort.
In interacting with the InSight system, the subject merely needs to stand in its very large capture volume, look at the device, and open his or her eyes. The system does all the work of finding the subject and locating the eyes for iris imaging, automating the entire process. Read the rest of this entry »
High capacity drive ideal for Secure Portable Desktop Applications
MXI Security now offers a 64GB capacity device for its Stealth line of secure USB devices. The new 64GB versions of the Stealth M-Series and Stealth MXP Bio add this industry-leading memory capacity to their already unsurpassed protection of data, applications, and network access.
MXI Security’s new 64GB devices are also ideally suited ideally for government customers that require high-capacity devices for Secure USB Desktop (SUDs) such as Stealth ZONE Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard Edition – the secure portable desktop that allows you to natively boot Microsoft Windows from a Stealth USB device. Read the rest of this entry »
Automates secure and efficient management of access to privileged accounts.
Hitachi Systems and Services Tokyo, (hereinafter Hitachi Systems) will start offering Hitachi ID Privileged Password Manager in Japan, effective June 10th, 2010. Additional identity and access management solutions from Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. will be added to the Hitachi Systems product line-up later.
Masato Saito, Chief Strategy Officer of Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. commented regarding the agreement with Hitachi Systems, “Hitachi ID Privileged Password Manager has been widely deployed at large corporations in North America and Europe. We are confident that the combination of Hitachi ID’s technology and Hitachi Systems’ integration expertise and local market presence will enable many Japanese customers to benefit from the same robust internal controls.”
Over the past few years, many enterprises have started deploying identity management systems to strengthen internal controls and to improve user productivity and IT efficiency. However, many IT departments continue to share passwords to privileged accounts(1), with manual processes to coordinate password changes and system access. This situation can lead to information leakage incidents, unauthorized access and audit failures.
(1) Privileged accounts refer to login IDs on systems and applications which are used to manage those systems, run services or authenticate one application to another. Privileged accounts, such as root on Unix and Administrator on Windows, generally have more security entitlements than regular user accounts. Read the rest of this entry »
PlumChoice Dramatically Reduces the Cost of Customer Acquisition for Its Partners by Releasing A Desktop Application that Provides a Quick and Concise Assessment of Computer Issues.
PlumChoice announced an expansion of its SAFElink technology care platform with the debut of SAFElink Discovery, a downloadable application that quickly analyzes and reports on the health, performance and security of a user’s computer. Part of the SAFElink family of support applications, SAFElink Discovery allows its service provider partners to extend a custom-branded diagnostic service to their end users that reduces customer acquisition costs, improves customer loyalty and increases product and service marketing effectiveness.
SAFElink Discovery, the product of several years of knowledge by the leader in remote technical support services, is a valuable and trustworthy diagnostic aid. It reliably reports on key computer parameters to give home and small business users both information and peace-of-mind. In just a few minutes, the downloadable application performs a comprehensive scan covering:
- Security-Checks for anti-virus and anti-spyware software; scans for active malware; reports on presence and status of firewall, backup client and Windows Update software
- Performance-Evaluates CPU usage, available free memory, primary disk free space and running processes
- Health-Assesses critical issues and overall disk health
