Captus Networks Named in Yankee Group List of Vendors Well-Positioned to Ensure Network Availability to Key Business Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WOODLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2003 Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. Recommendation to Enterprises: Make Network Integrity Systems an Essential Element of Application Security Architecture Captus Networks today released "The Yankee Group Special Report: Network Integrity Systems Clear Paths for Business Productivity." The Yankee Group, a global leader in communications and networking research and consulting, is the first to define the emerging class of Network Integrity Systems (NIS Niš or Nish (both: nēsh), city (1991 pop. 175,391), SE Serbia, on the Nišava River. An important railway and industrial center, it has industries that manufacture textiles, electronics, spirits, and locomotives. ) in this report commissioned by Captus. NIS solutions amplify the effectiveness of existing security investments -- including perimeter The boundary of a system or network, which defines the inside and outside. It is typically determined by firewalls and addresses. See DMZ. filters, application gateways and host integrity systems -- and represent a fundamental shift toward application access, fulfilling the vision for network security that attack-centric schemes cannot match. The Yankee Group points to the growth of mission-critical business applications in extended enterprises using public protocols -- such as email, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. applications, VoIP, Instant Messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , Peer to Peer, and XML/SOAP Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. -- as changing the mission of security from blocking attack and unwanted traffic to letting legitimate traffic flow into the network. "Enterprises we spoke with agree that there are significant economic and technical drivers all pointing to the need for a change in our approach to security. Yankee recommends adding NIS as an essential element of application security architectures to preserve a healthy network for business availability," said Eric Ogren, Senior Analyst Security Solutions & Services for the Yankee Group and author of the report. "Captus' unique flow-based technology automatically enforces business availability policies and is well-positioned to deliver on this vision." Network Integrity Systems (NIS) preserve and protect network bandwidth for mission-critical applications and hosts. At the same time, NIS clean the network of attacks and unwanted traffic that signature-based systems cannot discover, provide network operators with a comprehensive view of network behavior and arm corporate management with economic and regulatory compliances tools. Benefits of NIS include rapid response against Day Zero and DDoS attacks, control of corporate policies and protocols and reduced operational complexity. To download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. the Yankee Group Special Report please visit http://www.captusnetworks.com/yankee. About Captus Networks Captus Networks Corp. provides comprehensive intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. security solutions for enterprises, ISP's, government agencies and universities that need to assure network integrity while minimizing operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales . The company's unique business-driven, policy-based approach automatically delivers Day Zero threat protection with traffic management capabilities to guarantee predictable network availability. Captus is privately held and headquartered in Woodland, Calif. For more information visit http://www.captusnetworks.com/ or call 877-9-CAPTUS. |
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