infosecurity moscow takes off
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American Express deploysappliance for secure filetransferBrian McKenna
Tumbleweed CEO Jeff Smith
has said that American
Express is among a group of
customers using its new secure file
transfer appliance.
The product is designed, says
the $42m turnover company, to
provide a turnkey, high-
performance means of exchanging
large or sensitive files over the
internet. Its SecureTransport
software provides multi-protocol
file transfer service based on open
standards, including guaranteed
delivery, DMZ streaming, and
automation to integrate with back
end systems. This same
technology is now available in a
Linux-based product, the
Tumbleweed 'SecureTransport
Appliance'.
"American Express is now
exchanging more and more
information with the AS2
standard — an authentication and
encryption standard for the
messaging of files across a public
network. Wall Mart uses the
standard — which is why it is a
standard!" said Smith.
American Express partners
Pepsi and Microsoft are using the
AS2 standard to interact with it,
he said. "We are now seeing
financial services institutions
who've been using file transfer for
their own applications, such as
cash management, starting to use
the products to interface with
retailers or manufacturing firms.
"American Express found the
appliance implementation easier
to deploy. They were also
attracted to our multi-tiered
security architecture, with
appliances at the perimeter and
software internally".
The appliance shipped in early
October and is also in production
at MassMutual.
Smith confirmed the price for
the American Express deployment
to be in the region of a few
million dollars.
News In Brief
BitDefenderbranches out toKorea
From 8 November, all
BitDefender products —
including BitDefender
Antivirus — will be distributed
in Korea.
Working in partnership with
Mapae, a Korean-based
software firm, Bitdefender will
also localise their offering to
Korea, becoming the first
European anti-virus company
to offer a Korean edition of
their certified anti-virus
products.
Top Layer protectse-commerce
Realising that just a few
minutes downtime can
mean a serious loss of revenue
for e-commerce ventures, Top
Layer have announced their new
product line, the Attack
Mitigator IPS 5500 suite.
Developed to protect against
real-time attacks with minimal
interruption to legitmate
traffic, the Attack Mitigator
IPS 5500 works by executing
deep packet inspection and
analysis, combined with attack
blocking through their own
technology.
ICSA approval forJuniper
Juniper Networks is pleased
to say that its new product,
NetScreen Remote Access 500
(RA 500) SSL VPN has received
security certification from ICSA
labs.
Developed primarily for
SMEs, Juniper Networks
claims the RA 500 is secure,
cost effective, and designed for
use with remote workers who
regularly need to access the
corporate network.
RA 500 is the first SSL VPN
product for SMEs to have
received certification by ICSA.
Infosecurity Moscow takes off
Infosecurity Moscow launched
in September, with 2300
visitors and 50 exhibitors. The
show is one of the first focused
B2B events to be held in Russia
and the CIS.
Vladimir Larin, Head of the
Russian Representative office for
Symantec said: "the show is
another clear sign of the
significant growth of the
infosecurity market in Russia".
The show featured a seminar
programme, with 72 talks. The
conference was co-organised by
Informzashita Training Centre
(www.itsecurity.ru), an education
provider for the infosecurity
market.
"Infosecurity 2004 Moscow was
unique since it was the first
focused show in Russia where
information security professionals
had an opportunity to learn about
new achievements in the field, see
state-of-art technologies, as well
as hear the opinions of leading
experts in the field", said Zoya
Popova, Director of
Informzaschita Security Training
Centre.
Over 80% of exhibitors have
already confirmed their intention
to participate in the next show in
2005.
"Building a secure information
system is now a vital part of the
IT department function.
Infosecurity Moscow was a very
important event for those
responsible for solving this
particular issue in Russia" said
Ilya Trifalenkov, Director of
Information Security Centre, Jet
InfoSystems.
Tim Porter, Reed's director of
technology show development
(worldwide) said: "We are
delighted with the success of the
first edition of Infosecurity in
Russia, and we are already
working with Restec to plan a
number of further developments
for the next few years, including
the launch of Storage Expo,
another of Reed Exhibitions B2B
IT shows in 2005".
Infosecurity Moscow 2005 will
take place from September 7-9,
2005 in Gostini Dvor.
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