Stories about: NFR Security

Check Point this week will outline its strategy for the year, which includes new products and incorporating data security into its platforms.

Check Point Software Technologies on Tuesday announced an agreement to acquire privately held NFR Security, a maker of intrusion-detection and -prevention systems, for approximately US$20 million.

Of the three exploits chosen for this test (the Cisco malformed SNMP vulnerability and the SQL Slammer and Witty worms), the SNMP one gave our IPS vendors the most trouble.

NFR Security will be incorporating the ability to discover new applications on the network and to dynamically shield the system from attacks, in the next version of its Sentivist intrusion detection and intrusion prevention offerings scheduled for release in July. The company will also be releasing multi-gigabit capable offerings during the same time frame.

Drowning in signature libraries and reactive event information that is of little value in locating attacks in progress, network security managers are fed up with signature-based intrusion-detection systems that have been the backbone of network security. Amid an ever-shrinking time gap between vulnerabilities and exploits, signature-matching IDS already has become obsolete, analysts and users say.

Network intrusion-detection systems (IDS) have long been recognized as a necessary component of a multilayered security architecture. False positives have long been the bane of IDSs, leading some to even question the value of these products. In the past, many security professionals have found the effectiveness of intrusion detection limited by the need to process a large number of alert notifications, many of which are either incorrect or irrelevant.

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.

Network Associates (NAI), NFR Security, and Secure Computing announced this week that they have signed on to interoperate with IBM Corp.'s threat management software platform, Tivoli Risk Manager.

Tivoli Systems, the network management software arm of IBM, Monday made available the latest version of its threat management software that the company says now collects data from security devices from the likes of Network Associates, NFR Security and Secure Computing.

Tivoli Systems, the network management software arm of IBM, Monday made available the latest version of its threat management software that the company says now collects data from security devices from the likes of Network Associates, NFR Security and Secure Computing.

Editor's note: Last week, Security Manager's Journal contributor Jude Thaddeus decided to pass the baton, but our new author, "Mathias Thurman," is ready to take the next lap. New to management and with a fancy title, Thurman faces the daunting task of creating a security infrastructure at a rapidly growing start-up company. He's got the job. He's got the budget. Now he just needs a plan.