Network Associates and Chrysalis-ITS Deliver High-Speed VPN Solution Optimized for E-Business Security:.Business Editors RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a Cryptography-related conference held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area. The RSA Conference started in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security. 2000] SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 Chrysalis-ITS Enables Wireline Speed for Network Associates' WebShield 300 E-ppliance VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. Chrysalis-ITS Inc. and Network Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) today announced that Network Associates has integrated Luna(tm) VPN from Chrysalis-ITS with Network Associates newest WebShield E-ppliance product line to deliver wireline speed VPN connections. With the integrated Chrysalis-ITS Luna VPN accelerator card, the WebShield 300 E-ppliance product provides high performance VPN capabilities that help customers safely and smoothly maximize e-business. Both Chrysalis-ITS and Network Associates will be exhibiting their products at the RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. Conference in booths 824 and 400 respectively. The WebShield E-ppliance product family delivers easy-to-use, remotely manageable versions of Network Associates' award-winning anti-virus, firewall and VPN software in the form of simple plug-and-play hardware appliances. The addition of Luna VPN eliminates performance bottlenecks created by security processing requirements in pure software environments, enabling higher throughput and a dramatic increase in performance by freeing the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. to perform other critical tasks. "WebShield 300 E-ppliance customers, with especially demanding network environments, now have the option for accelerated VPN performance thanks to the impressive capabilities of Chrysalis-ITS technology," said Marvin Dickerson, senior product marketing manager for the E-ppliance products, Network Associates. "The Network Associates WebShield E-ppliance solution with integrated Chrysalis-ITS technology offers corporate customers an easy way to ensure integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. security at wireline speeds, a capability essential to companies competing in today's Web-driven business environments." "One of the biggest user concerns about Virtual Private Networking is performance," said Dave Madden Dave Madden (December 17, 1931) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, but was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Career Madden is best known for his role as the titular band's manager, Reuben Kincaid, on The Partridge Family , director of product marketing, Chrysalis-ITS. "In order for VPN use to grow, there is a need for hardware acceleration In computing, hardware acceleration is the use of hardware to perform some function faster than is possible in software running on the normal (general purpose) CPU. Examples of hardware acceleration include blitting acceleration functionality in graphics processing units (GPUs) and . Using Luna VPN with Network Associates' WebShield E-ppliance, guarantees a high performance, cost-effective Internet security ''This article or section is being rewritten at Internet security is the process of protecting data and privacy of devices connected to internet from information robbery, hacking, malware infection and unwanted software. appliance." About Luna VPN Luna VPN is a secure, high-performance accelerator card that offloads cryptographic processing eliminating VPN performance bottlenecks. When added to an existing Virtual Private Networking product, Luna VPN enables more throughput, improves network performance and provides additional security. The product is also scalable to accommodate increasing bandwidth and connection requirements. Chrysalis-ITS technology powers products from leaders in the VPN and Internet appliance space including Check Point, Network Associates, Nokia, and ODS (Operational Data Store) A database designed for queries on transactional data. An ODS is often an interim or staging area for a data warehouse, but differs in that its contents are updated in the course of business, whereas a data warehouse contains static data. Networks. About WebShield E-ppliance Network Associates' WebShield E-ppliance family is a scalable platform that combines the benefits of appliance technology -- reduced upfront purchase cost, ease of management, and drastically reduced on-going service and support -- with enterprise-strength features required to secure and manage networks. The remotely manageable security devices help companies of all sizes aggressively pursue fast-moving Internet opportunities by eliminating the need for specialized IT personnel or time-intensive security deployments -- requirements that oftentimes drop security completely from e-business planning. In a single appliance that arrives ready to run, WebShield E-ppliance packs some of the leading brands in Internet security, including Gauntlet firewall, McAfee virus scanning, and Gauntlet VPN with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for encryption, providing comprehensive e-business protection. About PGP VPN The WebShield 300 E-ppliance is one of many VPN solutions developed by Network Associates to help companies safely execute their e-business objectives. The PGP Data Security suite combines the world-renowned PGP email, file, disk and VPN client software with powerful backend components such as the PGP Certificate Server, PGP Policy Management Agent and PGPsdk (software developers toolkit). The PGP VPN suite features standards-based end-to-end virtual private networking for remote access, extranet and intranet security. The PGP E-Business Server adds security to automated e-commerce batch processes. In addition to its built-in encryption and authentication technology, the PGP product also supports other widely used industry standards such as RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. , SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (TLS (1) (Transport Layer Security) A security protocol from the IETF that is based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol developed by Netscape. TLS uses digital certificates to authenticate the user as well as authenticate the network (in a wireless ), OpenPGP, LDAP/S and X.509 v3, and IPSec. About Network Associates With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of enterprise network security and management software. Network Associates Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager products offer best of breed, suite-based network security and management solutions. Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager suites combine to create Net Tools software, which centralizes these point solutions within an easy-to-use, integrated systems management environment. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com. About Chrysalis-ITS Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. provides high performance security processing products for the networking and e-commerce industry. Its industry leading Luna technology is uniquely positioned to enhance the trust and performance of Certification Authority, Secure Socket Layer and Virtual Private Networking applications. Chrysalis-ITS is the founder of the NSP (1) (Network Service Provider) An organization that provides a high-speed Internet backbone to ISPs and other service providers. Sprint, MCI and UUNET are examples of NSPs. See Internet backbones. Alliance, formed to foster interoperable security processing architectures for high performance networking applications Chrysalis-ITS advanced cryptographic technology is used in some of the most widely known enterprise security solutions from Baltimore Technologies, CertCo, Check Point Software Technologies, Entrust Technologies, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , i-Planet -- Netscape, Network Associates, Nokia, Sun-Netscape, VeriSign, and Xcert International. The company's website is www.chrysalis-its.com. Chrysalis-ITS and Chrysalis-ITS logo and Luna are a trademarks or registered trademarks of Chrysalis-ITS, Inc. Network Associates, Gauntlet, McAfee, PGP, WebShield and Net Tools are registered trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the US and/or other countries. All other registered and unregistered trademarks in the document are the sole property of their respective owners. |
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