CyberSecurity Institute

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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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 software giant plans to deliver encryption features and integrity checks to insure that computers, such as notebooks, that are disconnected from a network are not affected by malicious programs.

Called Secure Startup, the feature will appear in Microsoft’s forthcoming version of its operating system, known as Longhorn, and represents a much smaller subset of the security features that the software giant had originally intended to build into the system software.

“We remain fully committed to the vision of creating new security technology for the Microsoft Windows platform that uses a unique hardware and software design to give users new kinds of security and privacy protections in an interconnected world,” Selena Wilson, director of product marketing for Microsoft’s Security Business and Technology Unit, said in statement.

While the technologies, once known as Palladium and now called the next-generation secure computing base (NGSCB), will help companies and consumers lock down their computers and networks, concerns remain that the hardware security measures could also be used to lock-in consumers to a single platform and restrict fair uses of content. Innovation could suffer if reverse engineers are locked out from tinkering with devices, said Dan Lockton, a graduate student at the University of Cambridge whose thesis focuses on the effects of technologies created for controlling information. The fear is that “we’re moving to a stage where the customer no longer has control over the product he or she has bought or the products (created) using that device,” Lockton said.

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