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The new wares combine firewall, VPN and intrusion-prevention capabilities in a format that promises proactive, easy-to-manage network protection, the vendors and solution providers said.

This week Juniper is shipping a long-awaited module that adds integrated intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) to its ISG 2000 appliance, delivering up to 2 Gbps of intrusion-prevention throughput and 1 Gbps of VPN/firewall throughput. NetScreen Technologies first launched the integrated security gateway with firewall and VPN features last April, days before the completion of its acquisition by Juniper.

Having multiple capabilities in the same box gives us a good competitive point against TippingPoint,” said Dave Casey, vice president of Westron Communications, a solution provider based in Carrollton, Texas.

Juniper, Sunnyvale, Calif., is also introducing the ISG 1000, a smaller firewall/VPN appliance. Intrusion-prevention modules for that box are slated to ship in the second half of this year.

3Com also has plans to roll out new appliances in the fourth quarter that introduce TippingPoint’s intrusion-prevention technology to the SMB market, said James Freeze, vice president of global marketing at 3Com, Marlborough, Mass.

This will help reduce the number of devices required to secure a customer’s network, Chambers said. The appliances scale from small businesses to large enterprises and incorporate features found in the PIX Security Appliance firewall, IPS 4200 Series and VPN 3000 Concentrator families.

Cisco’s appliances are shipping with starting prices that range from $3,495 for an SMB version with up to 300 Mbps throughput to $16,995 for an enterprise edition with up to 650 Mbps throughput.

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The IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager is designed to let a user log on to an Internet computer system or network and then use that connection to access information or systems run by a business partner, service provider, or other affiliated company. For example, an employee could sign on to his company’s computer network and have that network provide the security authentication necessary when that user tries to access health-care insurance information on an insurer’s site or order parts from a supplier’s site. Some companies will take on both roles, confirming that a user signing on to the network is who they claim to be and then providing secure authentication when that user travels over the Internet to the sites of partners. A common way to share identities between providers means customers won’t have to replicate or stage business processes for their security providers, IBM says.

Identity management is a market that’s poised to take off in the next year or two, but few companies are able to deploy such software today without help, says Jon Oltsik, an analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “So IBM uses [Federated Identity Manager] to get through the door with customers,” he says, “and sets up IBM Global Services to make them ready.”

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The Waltham, Mass.-based company will sell Immunix’s products as Novell AppArmor, Chief Executive Jack Messman said in a statement.

The product is designed to protect Linux and higher-level applications from external or internal attacks and viruses.

Immunix, based in Portland, Ore., was founded in 1998. It has somewhat fewer than 20 employees, chiefly programmers who focus on security work, said Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry. One of those employees is co-founder Crispin Cowan, who has been involved in Linux kernel security projects.

AppArmor works on Linux products using the 2.6 kernel, but Novell will support it only on its Suse Linux Enterprise Server product, Lowry said.

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InterMute is being bought just days after Trend Micro said it would sell its own anti-spyware technology to cut communication links between hackers and the computers they have compromised.

Spyware, such as password-stealing keyloggers, secretly sends personal information back to whoever planted it. Such software has been used to steal identity and banking information, and was implicated in a foiled bank robbery earlier this year.

According to press statements, InterMute’s products will be sold under the Trend Micro brand and will later be integrated into its software. Trend Micro said the acquisition would let customers manage “grayware” — programs that cross the boundary of spyware and adware.

“Spyware continues to evolve and cause concern and damage, but not all spyware can be handled the way viruses and worms are,” said Eva Chen, co-founder of Trend Micro. “Customers need effective solutions to remove spyware, but must also be given the flexibility on how to manage it. We expect to deliver combined solutions to market quickly.”

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