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MXtreme 5.0 is specifically designed with increased performance to better protect an organization’s e-mail infrastructure against attacks that can bring down a corporate e-mail system in real time.

E-mail is business critical and time sensitive, so any delays in processing due to volume spikes or increasing volumes are unacceptable,” said Tim Leisman, CEO, “MXtreme 5.0 performance enhancements translate to significant added value because they can process increasing e-mail volumes without changing their current infrastructure.”

BorderWare has more closely integrated MXtreme into corporate directory services to improve its ability to provide real-time directory lookups. This allows any updates to the directory to be automatically recognized by MXtreme 5.0, removing the need to update disparate systems on a continuous basis.

Mxtreme 5.0 also adds Objectionable Content Filtering, an end user-manageable list that can be customized to meet the specific needs of any organization.

The rules can also be applied to both inbound and outbound messages in order to stop unwanted content from entering an organization and prohibiting sensitive information from leaving an organization.

Also included is the ability to customize the lists in accordance with specific compliance requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley and PIPEDA.

Finally, BorderWare has upgraded the administrator and user interfaces to be easier to use.

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While this capability exists in some products, the Trusted Network Connect (TNC) specification is the first attempt to define an open standard for it.

Some consortium members, including Funk Software, HP and iPass, will show how the specification works through software interoperability demonstrations over an HP ProCurve Switch-based LAN.

“Interoperability is important to minimize the ways we have to do this, which today requires custom development with anti-virus vendors and others,” says Barbara Nelson, director of advanced technology at iPass, which makes software called Endpoint Policy Management to check desktops for missing anti-virus and software patches. At this week’s demonstration, iPass plans to show how its desktop Endpoint Policy Management software can collect TNC-related information about anti-virus and patch updates on a desktop.

Paul Crandell, network security program manager at HP, says TCG will work to further develop the basic TNC architecture so that more-complex policy decisions associated with remediation can be enforced through network equipment.

Dan Ratner, director of product management at Meetinghouse, says the company expects to include TNC in its Aegis client and server authentication products by the fourth quarter.

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“We made the decision that the things we were doing wouldn’t just be in Longhorn and that we needed to get them into the hands of the current installed base as well. IE 7 is down-level to [Windows] XP, even though somewhat of a superset of it is the browser in Longhorn,” said Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates in an interview at WinHEC here last week.

In Longhorn, IE will run in its own protected space, thus isolating it from other parts of the operating system.

But even before Longhorn hits, Microsoft is adding several security enhancements to IE 7.0, which is due in beta this summer. The newest version of the browser will have technology to prevent cross-domain scripting, and the default mode will be one with a reduced privilege level to help prevent attackers from using IE as a stepping-off point for other attacks.

Version 7.0 may also include integration with Microsoft’s nascent anti-spyware technology, which is in beta.

“But, if you consider that IE is probably one of the most-used products and has the most access to untrusted systems on the Internet, it kind of makes some sense to almost have IE behave like a bastion host,” Robert said.

Matthew Patton, a network security engineer in Arlington, Va., said he does not believe Microsoft’s moves will be very effective. “Cross-domain scripting, for example, is a problem local to IE, and isolating IE from the operating system doesn’t change anything in that regard,” Patton said.

The Redmond, Wash., software maker is entering the third decade of Windows computing, which really became pervasive in its second decade with the release of Windows 95.

Virtualization is another key technology for Microsoft, and the company will be building that support into Windows, making sure the emulation is “very, very efficient,” Gates said. Microsoft must be careful that the VM does not become a security weakness through which an attacker could insert a VM under the operating system, negating Windows’ security protections, Gates said. “So the operating system will have to become enabled to be able to look down and have what’s called a chain of trust where it looks if it is a trustworthy [VM] running on trustworthy hardware.”

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Cisco plans to announce the first product developed from its Airespace acquisition. The product, called the Wireless Location Appliance 2700, will help customers track and locate wireless local area network devices that have 802.11 technology installed, to within a few meters. These devices include wireless laptops, PDAs (personal digital assistants), voice over wireless LAN handsets, and 802.11 radio frequency identification tagged devices.

Over the past year, the market for Wireless LAN gear–equipment that allows businesses to connect workers to their corporate networks and the Internet wirelessly rather than through an Ethernet cable–has heated up. Cisco’s $450 million acquisition of start-up Airespace earlier this year helped validate the market. As the technology matures, equipment suppliers continue to upgrade and refresh their product lines.

Also at the show, Aruba Networks, one of the many start-ups in this market, plans to announce a new product called Personal Access Point. This software, which can be loaded onto any Aruba access point, lets customers extend their corporate Wi-Fi network to their home. One drawback could be the cost, however. Customers will not only have to dish out $250 just for the software, but they will also have to spring for a new access point, which costs between $200 and $500. Despite that, it could appeal to key sales staff and traveling executives.

Meru Networks, another start-up, plans to showcase a set of wireless products that increases bandwidth available to users. This is especially important when a high concentration of users needs access to the wireless LAN, such as on a stock-trading floor. Meru’s new products will include four-radio, eight-radio and 12-radio versions. Using the 12-radio product, Meru can blanket an area with radio-frequency signals, boosting switching capacity.

Siemens Communications also is using NetWorld+Interop as an opportunity to debut its wireless LAN products, which it has developed using technology it acquired from Chantry Networks. The portfolio is called HiPath Wireless and includes access points as well as a wireless switch that is used to manage access points.

Ethernet switch maker Enterasys also will show off its new wireless solution. Earlier this week, it announced that it is licensing software from start-up Trapeze Networks. Enterasys will use the Trapeze software in its own switches to provide central management for the existing Enterasys wireless access points. Trapeze already has reseller relationships with 3Com and Nortel Networks.

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The blast-proof film, called Spyguard, can be laminated or fitted inside windows to prevent remote eavesdroppers penetrating rooms with infrared or Wi-Fi signals to steal information or access private networks.

To stop Wi-Fi signals “leaking” from a room, the walls are also covered with a layer of paint that contains the same metals as the SpyGuard film. The film can even prevent hackers from stealing information from light flicker emitted from computer monitors and reflected on a window, claims GlassLock UK, a company that sells the film in the UK.

“The film is developed by the US National Security Agency,” said John Hall, managing director of GlassLock UK. “The only way you can get hold of it here is through us.” CESG (the Communications-Electronics Security Group), the information assurance arm of GCHQ, has backed the product, but the intelligence community is keeping an eye on who buys it. “We have to get permission to sell it,” said Hall. “We have to tell MI5 who we sell it to. It’s no problem unless they’re known terrorists.”

GlassLock is demonstrating the product at Infosecurity Europe 2005 in London.

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The new iGateway software integrates Secure Socket Layer-VPN, anti-virus (AV) and anti-spam (AS) functionality, to enhance its existing firewall, intrusion prevention and Web filtering solutions for improved secure access, threat management and productivity assurance.

Intoto’s new multi-service security software platforms allow OEMs to deliver integrated security appliances and converged business gateways, two of the most rapidly growing networking product segments. “OEMs are looking for more integrated security functionality in their next-generation designs,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing at Intoto.

According to In-Stat, the integrated security appliance market is poised for explosive growth, reaching $3.3 billion by 2009, while the business gateway, a new integrated networking product type that serves the entire data, security, and voice communications needs of small businesses and branch offices, may capture a significant portion of the total SME equipment market forecasted to grow to $16B in 2008.

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