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IT Weekly Roundup, August 20
From the business wires this week: Updated installation, compression tools, plus products that support new Sender ID specifications to battle phishing scams and spam.
From the business wire: Updated installation, compression tools, a slew of revamped security tools, plus products that support Sender ID specifications to battle phishing scams and spam.
Wise Solutions' Wise for Windows Installer 6.0 has been updated
with integrated installation development in Visual Studio .NET's IDE; extended,
automated support for authoring data-driven Web applications; team collaboration
features; and support for .MSI 3.0, IIS 6.0, the .NET Framework, MTS/COM+ and
32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. http://www.wise.com/wfwi.asp
The newest versions of LiveTime Software's J2EE-based LiveTime Support
Desk and LiveTime Help Desk are capable of scanning across multiple
Active Directory domains to locate and gather data on users. http://www.livetime.com/
The newly released BigFix Enterprise Suite can be used to help with
enterprise deployment of Windows XP Service Pack 2. Features: disabling Internet
Explorer pop-up blocker; managing firewall settings; preventing automatic deployment
of SP2 across the enterprise; and ensuring third-party anti-virus clients are
running, current and unaffected by XP SP2. http://www.bigfix.com
Expect Panda Software to support Microsoft's Network Access Protection,
an information access compliance technology, later this year among its antivirus
software line: Panda BusinesSecure Antivirus, Panda EnterpriSecure
Antivirus, and TruPrevent. http://www.pandasoftware.com/
New in PKWARE's venerable PKZIP 8 compression utility: an enterprise-class
SecureZIP for Windows that provides strong encryption and authentication and
digital signature features. It uses BSAFE software from RSA Security.
http://www.pkware.com
VASCO Data Security International launched Digipass Host Authentication,
an identity management add-on for preventing phishing scams. Digipass users
send a time-based, one-time password to a host server. The host server responds
with a time-based host authentication code, which, if it matches, indicates
to the user that the site is genuine. http://www.vasco.com/
BMC Software announced SmartDBA Recovery Management, a policy-based
database backup and recovery solution. Features include the ability to centrally
monitor the backup and recovery health of multiple databases and customize those
views, and a mechanism for setting limits to provide alerts when SLAs are not
met. http://www.bmc.com/solutions/database/
Postini released a new version of its e-mail intrusion prevention system,
Perimeter Manager 5.0, that now has expanded IP analysis and a reduction
in false positives. Also new are an improved administrator interface and enhanced
search functions, bulk change management, and quarantine management. http://www.postini.com/
Vidius PortAuthority 3.0 has been upgrade with new third-party gateway
interfaces, increased mail server and file server support and pattern recognition
capabilities. Version 3 includes an automatic policy creation utilty and has
the ability to quarantine messages violating those policies. http://www.vidius.com
D-Link announced Wireless Pocket Router/AP for business travelers.
The router is about the size of a PDA and can be powered over USB. It connects
to any Ethernet or 802.11b/g network and has built-in firewall protection, with
support for WPA-PSK and 64/128 WEP encryption. It'll retail for $99.99 when
it ships in September. http://www.dlink.com
Several companies have announced embedded support for Sender ID, an e-mail
specification based on Microsoft's Caller ID for E-mail proposal and the Sender
Policy Framework:
- IronPort Systems' is integrating future support of Sender ID into
its C-series email security appliances, the SenderBase e-mail
traffic monitoring network and Bonded Sender Program, an e-mail accreditation
service. http://www.ironport.com/
- VeriSign will add it to its Email Security Service and will
provide vendors of spam filtering solutions access to the company's Verified
Domains List, which contains information about domains associated with sites
that employ VeriSign's Secure Socket Layer certificates. http://www.verisign.com/products/email-security/index.html
SecuGen released SNAP, the Secure Network Authentication Platform,
client-server software that lets users log onto Windows networks via fingerprint
recognition. It's composed of a SNAP Server component that provides network-wide
authentication, and a SNAP Client that uses any SecuGen fingerprint peripheral.
Authentication is based on technology developed by US Biometrics. http://www.secugen.com
Red Earth Software says its Policy Patrol is the first commercial
Exchange anti-spam add-on to provide support for Spam URL Realtime Block Lists,
which are being used to check URLs within the body of a message. Version 3.5
comes in a Spam Filter edition and an Enterprise edition (anti-spam, content
checking, attachment blocking, optionally anti-virus, more). http://www.policypatrol.com
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