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The technology, called Hardware-Based Full Disc Encryption (FDE), automatically encrypts all the data written to the drive, according to Mark Pastor, strategic marketing senior director at Seagate. The technology will be available for notebook PC makers on 40GB, 80GB and 120GB versions of the Momentus 5400-series drives, which will have a spin speed of 5,400 rpm and use the Ultra ATA-100 interface.

The hard-disk drives with the encryption technology will have exactly the same performance as the drives in the series that don’t use the technology. But the drives with the security feature will be more expensive, Pastor said.

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The suites include the Desktop Protection Suite and the Server Protection Suite, which protect data stored on PCs and servers, respectively. The Business Protection Suite and business protection suites for Microsoft Small Business Server standard and premium editions protect data on both personal systems and servers. The suites will be available in July through the reseller channel, priced at between $325 and $1,099 for a five-user license.

The suites offer combinations of CA’s Desktop DNA Migrator, eTrust Antivirus, eTrust Pest Patrol Anti-Spyware, and BrightStor ARCserve. The DNA Migrator captures and transfers user settings during PC refreshes, operating-system recovery, or database recovery. The antivirus product automatically updates virus signatures while helping to fend off viruses. Pest Patrol detects and removes spyware, Trojans, and other threats. And ARCserve helps customers back up data and restore it during outages.

An industry analyst thinks the protection suites are an energized entry for CA. “It’s a growing market, confusing to customers, served with a pile of point products,” says Ray Boggs, an analyst at IDC. “So CA is bringing in a complete system for the small companies who need something more comprehensive. They want to stop choosing à la carte.”

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The new products are designed to allow customers to extend identity management beyond traditional boundaries to partners, suppliers, new devices and external applications, Sun executives said.

For example, Federation Manager will help customers create secure partner networks by automatically linking identities across multiple sites, said Eric Leach, director of product management for Sun Java System Federation Manager at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based vendor.

With the Service Provider Edition, customers and service providers will get a tool for automating provisioning and account registration through portals, according to Sun. Customers also will be able to create new applications and customize services from third-party providers.

The services, which are slated to be delivered in the Release 2 edition of Windows sServer, will offer cross-company authentication of users, devices and resources. Sun executives said their company’s new federation products support industry standards and will complement Sun and Microsoft’s work to enable interoperability between their platforms.

For example, Sun’s Federation Manager supports Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) and several standards backed by the Liberty Alliance, including the Liberty Identity Federation Framework and the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework.

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Additionally, they will let users correlate their data with security intelligence from Symantec’s DeepSight Threat Management System. This analysis of security data could give customers a better view of the attacks waged on their networks and help them raise more-effective shields, Symantec said. The Security Information Manager editions will succeed a current software product called Incident Manager.

The appliances will be easier to install and can crunch through data faster than Incident Manager, according to Symantec. The 9550, priced at $59,000, is the main device, while the 9500, which costs $39,000, would be used as an extra node in a cluster, the company said. Both devices are 2U rack-mountable Linux-based servers with dual 3GHz Intel Xeon processors. The 9550 has more RAM memory than the 9500 and features 1.2 terabytes of storage space, Symantec said.

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Kelkea provides an anti-spam service to a range of US-based ISPs such as AOL by tackling such content before it enters the network.

As a result, according to Fernando Rynne, Trend Micro’s global product marketing manager for Internet security, the purchase complements Trend Micro’s deal with Postini, which handles spam at the gateway.

The Kelkea service will be sold as an add-on to Trend Micro’s core enterprise and service provider customer base.

The move immediately beefs up Trend’s spam credentials and moves it closer to tackling increasing phishing and pharming scams, which it has plans to address later this year. Trend Micro will offer Kelkea’s existing services under its own brand name, and will continue to support all of Kelkea’s current customers.

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Symantec’s new Critical System Protection 4.5 is based on technology from Platform Logic, a company Symantec acquired in December.

Like other behaviour-based intrusion detection products, Critical System Protection 4.5 defends networks by monitoring program behaviour, and spotting and blocking viruses and worms. It’s designed to protect corporate desktops and servers against unknown attacks.

Symantec has overhauled Platform Logic’s original AppFire software to make it compatible with its other products, said Chirantan Desai, director of product management at the company. Critical System Protection 4.5 requires its own management interface, but Symantec is working on a common interface for its products, he said. Desai said the new software, aimed at large enterprises, is meant to be used with other Symantec products — specifically, AntiVirus Corporate Edition and Client Security.

Where the Critical System Protection provides behaviour-based defenses, Client Security includes signature-based intrusion protection. Signature-based intrusion detection products detect attacks based on definitions that are created by the product vendor and regularly updated, much like antivirus definitions.

Rival McAfee’s Entercept software offers protection based on both behavioural rules and intrusion prevention signatures. The company, formerly known as Network Associates, is scheduled to announce on Monday that Entercept now runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 servers. The product already supports Microsoft’s Windows and Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating systems.

Symantec’s Critical System Protection 4.5 is due out by the end of June and will run on Windows XP and Windows 2000 (server and client), Windows Server 2003 and Suse Linux and Solaris.

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