ISS warns of holes in Check Point firewall, VPN server
Users of Check Point Software Technologies firewalls need to upgrade them right away in order to shut down a vulnerability that can lead to the firewalls being taken over by attackers.
Stories by Tim Greene
Compression device handles 1,500 remote sites
Expand Networks Inc. is introducing a compression device that can cram more data onto each WAN link for as many as 1,500 remote sites.
Avaya combines data, voice, PBX calls in one SOHO box
Avaya is introducing a SOHO box that can network home-office data machines, support traditional, wireless and IP voice services and provide PBX call features.
Fortinet delves into data to search for intrusions
Fortinet Inc. is announcing software to supplement its traditional firewalls that inspects the content of individual packets and reconstructs data streams to look for intrusions.
Celion launches optical service alternative
Celion Networks Inc. is introducing optical gear for businesses claiming that the product can help to improve corporate backup plans for widely separated data centers and save money.
Expand's ExpandView management software is worth a look
Expand Networks Inc. is announcing management software to keep track of its acceleration gear and produce reports about overall WAN performance.
Allot Communications introduces NetEnforcer
Allot Communications Ltd. is introducing a high-availability version of its policy enforcement gear to make sure quality-of-service policies remain in tact when a site with two internet connections loses one link.
A better VPN on the way?
There might soon be a new standard that makes IP Security VPNs more secure and easier to configure.
Check Point CEO on upcoming products
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. this week announced it will introduce two products by mid-2004 that will address Web security and internal network security for businesses. Called Web Security and Internal Security, these two product families can be deployed independently or integrated with current Check Point products such as VPN-1/Firewall-1. In an interview with Tim Greene, Check Point's Chairman and CEO Gil Shwed gave some flavor of what the new products would include.
Check Point promises internal and Web security apps
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is promising two products by mid-2004 intended to minimize the damage worms and viruses do if they manage to get inside corporate networks, and to make business use of the Web more secure.
SonicWall consolidates VPN platforms
SonicWall Inc. is consolidating its low-end IPSec VPN gear onto a single hardware platform called TZ 170 that will come in three models to replace its seven current VPN appliances.
Celite hires XAVi
Celite Systems Inc. has found a manufacturer to make modems for a broadband technology resembling Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) and can cut access service delivery costs by 75 percent, the company claims.
Authentication upgrade on tap from Funk
Funk Software Inc. is introducing upgraded software that lets Cisco Systems Inc. gear users authenticate and gain access to wireless networks via Funk's RADIUS servers.
Sonus in the green
Sonus Networks Inc. this quarter made a profit for the first time in its seven-year history and announced a new customer: AT&T.
Startup offers SSL remote access
Positive Networks Inc. is trying to jump into the Secure Sockets Layer remote-access market with a service that enables safe Internet connections to corporate networks from virtually any remote computer, whether it is company-issued, employee-owned or borrowed.