ECI Telecom Unveils Secure Encryption Solution for High-Speed Ethernet Networks
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ECI Telecom Ltd. (NASDAQ: ECIL), a global provider of networking  infrastructure equipment, introduced today an advanced encryption  solution that protects all types of data transmission over high-speed  Ethernet networks.
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Vendors Hewlett Packard, Alcatel and S2io each announced 10 Gigabit Ethernet products Monday that are aimed squarely at enterprise data centers.
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New Cruzer Professional series flash drives include password protection and 256-bit AES encryption.
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Analysis No delay in EC anti-trust compliance
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EMC Corp. has unveiled a Microsoft Exchange server-based e-mail storage product called EMC Express Solution for E-Mail. EMC said the automated policy management software enables mid-sized organizations
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This article begins a series of three articles dedicated to configuring Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support, in order to ensure maximum security and optimal performance of secure web communication. This part introduces key aspects of SSL/TLS and then shows how to compile and configure Apache 2.0 with support for these protocols.
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(InfoWorld) - A powerful and secure virtual private network solution for businesses with Macs has been announced by Billion Electric. Billion Electric Wednesday announced two fully Mac-compatible SSL VPN Security Appliances with integrated router and firewall functions, the BiGuard S5 and BiGuard S10. The products are all-in-one security gateways with SSL VPN, designed for SMB users seeking secure, cost-effective and clientless remote access to the corporate network. The beauty of the products is their relative low cost in contrast to more expensive solutions for larger enterprises. When set up in the office, the two solutions mean remote users can share and access files from outside of the office just as if they are on the network. Users simply need to launch their web browser andÂ enter their authorisation codes and their office network becomes accessible through a secure tunnel. The built-in security software can even check a user's MAC address, IP address, and hostname to ensure only authorised people can gain access. Billion Electric claims its solutions are easy to set up and manage, saying: "There is no need for dedicated IT personnel." Edward Kung, managing director of Billion in U.K. says: "We've developed our SSL VPN systems to work seamlessly with the Mac OS. Ideal for the significant number of Mac users who work in small businesses, this SSL VPN device is important for their network security." The Billion BiGuard S5 offers an all-in-one security gateway for small businesses seeking secure, cost-effective, and clientless remote access to the business network. It costs just Â£169 ($325), excluding VAT, and supports up to five concurrent SSL VPN sessions. The BiGuard S10 (Â£229 excluding VAT) supports up to 10 concurrent sessions.
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Juniper Networks claims to have added an important piece of technology for delivering on its integrated network security strategy as part of the launch of its high-speed EX-Series of enterprise switches.
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Juniper Networks claims to have added an important piece of technology for delivering on its integrated network security strategy as part of the launch of its high-speed EX-Series of enterprise switches.With onboard capabilities aimed at extending security functions, including applications usage visibility and NAC (network access control), among others, Juniper executives said that the devices -- the company's first set of high-performance switches targeted directly at enterprises, versus its existing systems aimed at telecommunications providers -- allow the networking gear provider to address demands being made by large customers.As enterprises replace aging networks with new high-performance equipment, security capabilities are high on the lists of core features that buyers are requesting, said Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager of the Service Layer Technology Business Group at Juniper.?While the infrastructure-defense tools represent only one aspect of the larger push to make networks faster and more reliable to support business operations, they have become an increasingly central element of customers' long-term goals, the executive said.Increased integration capabilities established between the new switches and Juniper's existing access control, firewall, intrusion prevention and UTM (unified threat management) products is the most significant aspect of the devices' added security functions, according to Bauhaus. "This truly builds on our strength to do end-to-end security integration," he said. "We're not looking to become a pure-play security vendor, but these are features that customers are looking for in building high-performance networking infrastructure."In addition to allowing for more unified, integrated security throughout their networking architecture, Bauhaus said that customers are looking to onboard security functions as a way to save money and reduce complexity by replacing other devices, including inline NAC appliances. "Customers clearly want to collapse the sheer number of special-use security devices," he said. "And with the integration to our Unified Access Control technology, we think that this launch represents another important stepping stone by providing customers with the ability to utilize unified access with additional support from their infrastructure."While rival Cisco Systems has been positioning itself as much as a provider of security tools as a networking specialist for the last several years, at least in terms of its marketing image, Bauhaus said that Juniper is more interested in being viewed as a leading provider of high-speed gear that offers embedded security and standards-based ties to network-defense tools offered by other vendors. All of the security functionality being integrated into the EX-Series switches and Juniper's networking gear is focused primarily on fostering high-performance infrastructure for customers that is also safe and reliable, he said.Building its products around open industry standards, in particular the security tools, is crucial to allowing third party developers to take advantage of the features, Juniper executives repeatedly stressed at Juniper's Global Enterprise 2008 event held in New York on Tuesday.Officials from IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle took the stage to endorse the networking company's ability to foster stronger ties with their own products.Businesses applaud Juniper's move Calvin Choe, director of technical business development for the Enterprise Networking Group at Microsoft, highlighted the importance of Juniper's work to allow for tight integration between its infrastructure technologies and Microsoft's NAP (Network Access Protection) iteration of NAC, which will arrive next month with the introduction of the software giant's Windows Server 2008 software. NAP is also supported in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. "Used with NAP, this will allow network administrators to create policies around identity and assess users' state of compliance to enforce their own set of criteria," said Choe. "The support of standards is important because we wanted to make sure that customers had their choice of switching vendors."In addition to partners, Juniper also hosted several customers on stage, all of whom mentioned the EX-Series' security features as one of the core strengths of the new product line. "Security is one of the most important things to us, and we wanted an extra layer of access control to deliver defense-in-depth," said Frank Ziegler vice president of communications for the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.Some industry watchers said that the new EX-Series switches add a crucial piece that had been missing from Juniper's product portfolio from an integrated security standpoint. The new hardware should help the company differentiate from its rivals, including Cisco -- which has aggressively added to its own security holdings over the last several years, said David Willis, a communications market analyst for Gartner. "I think one of the more interesting elements of the launch is Juniper's work to integrate with third parties like Oracle; Cisco has announced similar intentions to do so, but it may take them years to get products ready -- and the size of Cisco's installed base may actually represent a problem in terms of getting products to market," said Willis. "With Cisco, it's also not unusual to run into customers who may have as many as 50 different versions of its OS on its devices, and from that standpoint, sometimes nothing beats a fresh start."The analyst that just said how much of an advantage the new products could represent on the enterprise market will likely depend on how seriously customers view Juniper's efforts to truly embed security throughout its networking gear versus merely adding individual features.Other experts said that the addition of the switches' security features could threaten providers of standalone devices, such as inline NAC appliance vendors like ConSentry and Autonomic Networks."Clearly the fact that Juniper hasn't had a switching product in this space has limited the reach of UAC, but with customers that have existing investments in Juniper firewalls and VPNs, this could be seen as good news," said Paul Roberts, analyst with The 451 Group. "There's always the question if anyone is really going to do a rip and replace to get NAC functionality, but for companies doing upgrades and looking for the features, this could be a viable option," he said. "In some ways, the new switches may give Juniper the ability to leapfrog Cisco, Extreme Networks, and other rivals with some of these features for access control and applications visibility."
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Single Packet Authorization fills the gaps in port knocking.
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EastLink, the fifth largest cable provider in Canada, has selected a  device provisioning system from Incognito Software to deploy Internet  and telephone services.
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Presenters at the Crypto 2004 conference identify faster ways to forge digital signatures with common security algorithms.
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This paper discusses the use of NetFlow, a traffic profile monitoring technology available on many routers, for use in the early detection of worms, spammers, and other abnormal network activity in large enterprise networks and service providers.
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Company releases a key-management product aimed at helping companies manage encrypted systems more efficiently.
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As a completely managed service, FrontBridge is able to implement an encrypted email solution rapidly, without the typical implementation challenges or up front capital investment required from an organization.
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(InfoWorld) - A security researcher who collected thousands of sensitive e-mails and passwords from the embassies of countries such as Russia and India blamed systems administrators on Monday for not using encryption to shield their traffic from snooping. Dan Egerstad, a 21-year-old security researcher, revealed on Monday he was able to capture the information by setting up his own node in a peer-to-peer network used by the embassies to make their Internet traffic anonymous. The embassies relied on a volunteer network of servers using software calledÂ Tor (The Onion Router)Â to hide their Internet traffic and make it anonymous. Traffic sent through a Tor node is transmitted through a randomly selected series of other Tor nodes before exiting the network for its intended destination, so as to disguise the source and destination of the traffic. But although traffic between nodes in a Tor network is encrypted by default, traffic entering and exiting the system is not, so anyone wanting to hide not only who are they are communicating with, but what they are saying, must apply an extra layer of encryption themselves. Embassies and companies neglected to do this, which left their information open for Egerstad to collect. Anyone can run a Tor server and add it to the network. Egerstad, who runs his own consulting company in Malmo, Sweden, did just that as part of his security research, and monitored the traffic exiting the Tor network through it. To his surprise, he found that more than 99 percent of the traffic -- including requests for Web sites, instant messaging traffic, and e-mails -- were transmitted unencrypted. "By accident, I saw one really sensitive e-mail," Egerstad said in a telephone interview. "I thought 'What is that doing there?"" Using specially designed software to search that traffic for keywords, Egerstad was soon collecting usernames, passwords, and e-mail sent by embassies around the world, as well as large companies. Late last month, Egerstad published the usernames and passwords for around 100 embassies. Egerstad said the process of snooping on the traffic is trivial. The problem is not with Tor, which still works as intended, but with users' expectations: the Tor system is designed to merely anonymize Internet traffic and does not perform end-to-end encryption. "If they are using encryption -- no problem, it doesn't matter," Egerstad said. Organizations running other Tor nodes could also be snooping on traffic exiting the network there, Egerstad warned. For example, several Tor nodes in the Washington, D.C., area can handle up to 10TB of data a month, a flow of data that would cost at least $5,000 a month to run, and is likely way out the range of volunteers who run a node on their own money, Egerstad said. "Who would pay for that?" Egerstad said. Egerstad said he read a lot of the e-mail he collected but has since wiped the hard drives and deleted the information. After he posted the usernames and passwords to his Web site, he said he received an e-mail from the U.S. company hosting the site informing him that it would be shut down. He has since created a new site. Egerstad said what he did is not illegal, as the e-mail and passwords he collected were contained on his own computer. He said he did not use the usernames and passwords to log into any accounts, although one journalist in India did. The point of his work is to raise awareness of security concerns, he said: "Go ahead and use Tor, but you better be sure you have good encryption." Â
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T-Mobile USA today released a new secure encrypted Connection Manager that will enable users to login to any of the 4700 nationwide HotSpot wireless networks.