Stories about: OneSecure

In 2007,we designated more than 90 start-ups as worth watching. After a second look, we picked these 10 as offering what matters most in the enterprise -- agility, seamless integration and pervasive connectivity.

New companies have to be brash to enter the network security market, given that the industry has witnessed an explosion in creativity over the past five years and considering that big players such as Microsoft and IBM increasingly are throwing their weight around in security.

A California startup backed by US$4 million in venture funding and a team of former Juniper Networks executives says that it has developed a way to make networking products and applications more secure. Mu Security says it will soon begin selling a new vulnerability assessment product that lets technology vendors and enterprise developers test their products with known hacker techniques, allowing them to fix bugs before products are put into use.

Citing an increase in attacks that take advantage of holes in existing firewall technology, NetScreen Technologies said on Monday that it will release new "deep packet inspection" features across its line of network firewall products.

Intrusion-prevention system is the new buzzword this week. A combination of intrusion-detection brains and firewall placement, IPSs take a new tack on protecting corporate networks. The concept is simple: When intrusion detection notices a problem, intrusion prevention blocks the bad traffic.

Intrusion prevention seems the next logical step in enterprise security. Turning the intrusion-detection systems developed for spotting attacks into more useful products that stop intruders cold might even be considered a no-brainer.

To help end-users thwart a broad range of network attacks aimed at exploiting multiple parts of an enterprise, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Okena Inc., and Intruvert Networks Inc. announced the creation of a new Intrusion Prevention Ecosystem on Monday at the Networld+Interop and Comdex 2002 conference, in Atlanta.

Firewall and virtual private network hardware and software maker NetScreen Technologies Inc. is adding intrusion detection and prevention systems to its list of products, thanks to the acquisition of OneSecure Inc.

Intrusion detection systems (IDS) set off so many false alarms they can cause more trouble than they are worth, according to chair of Australia's Information Security Interest Group (ISIG) Mark Ames.

One thing that can be said with certainty about network-based intrusion-detection systems is that they're guaranteed to detect and consume all your available bandwidth. Whether they also detect network intrusions is less of a sure thing.

An increasing number of firms are rushing to offer outsourced security services in anticipation of a spurt in demand.