Service Provider Weekly and Hosting Week Magazines Honor Positive Networks' PositivePRO with ``Editor's Choice Awards''.OVERLAND PARK Overland Park, city (1990 pop. 111,790), Johnson co., NE Kans., a residential suburb of Kansas City; inc. 1960. There is printing and publishing, and the manufacture of apparel, aircraft parts, cement, prepared foods, salt, chemicals, marine accessories, and signs. , Kan. -- PositivePRO(TM) Hosted, Managed 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. 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. Service Ideal for Enterprises Who Want Enterprise Grade Remote Access, But Who Don't Want to Buy an Expensive VPN Appliance Positive Networks, a provider of industry-leading hosted managed remote access and endpoint security solutions, received "Editor's Choice Awards" from Service Provider Weekly and Hosting Week Magazine, published by Possibility Media, for the company's PositivePRO hosted managed secure remote access service. PositivePRO earned five-star ratings in product reviews published in both magazines. PositivePRO is a complete managed service for secure remote access for an organization's remote and mobile employees. Authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: end users can use PositivePRO to securely connect to their organization's network and Intranet resources from any location where they can access the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . PositivePRO is particularly ideal as a component of any organization's disaster planning disaster planning - disaster recovery platform, providing secure access to remote employees if a natural disaster, biohazard bi·o·haz·ard n. 1. A biological agent, such as a virus or a condition that constitutes a threat to humans, especially in biological research or experimentation. 2. , or terrorism makes getting to the office physically impossible. PositivePRO connections can be set up in advance of disaster striking or on the fly, in a matter of hours. PositivePRO serves as an extension of support from corporate IT managers and CIOs as a corporate productivity service. "PositivePRO is an ideal solution for organizations that need secure remote access but don't want the expense of buying, configuring and managing a VPN appliance," said Ken Durham, editor of Network Technology. "PositivePRO represents a new breed of services that make securely accessing business-critical data easy, safe and efficient." "PositivePRO continues to demonstrate its category-leadership through the large number of industry awards it has received since the beginning of the year," said Michael Yim, vice president of marketing, Positive Networks. "We continue to record new customers in a variety of industries from entertainment, to education, to healthcare and manufacturing. PositivePRO is the clear alternative to SSL VPN appliances." The PositivePRO service provides a complete remote work platform with strong end-point security. It is developed for use with company-owned laptops, home PCs, other remote devices that can be remotely accessed by client-based access, Web-based access, and/or remote desktop control. About Positive Networks Positive Networks is the leading provider of hosted VPN and endpoint security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the . Its flagship service, PositivePRO, combines a client-based VPN, a clientless, Web-based SSL VPN, and remote desktop control into a single remote access service that scales to support thousands of users. With no hardware to install, PositivePRO is simple to implement and can provide complete remote access endpoint security control in 24 hours or less. PositivePRO's easy-to-manage subscription model includes critical end-point security features like antivirus Refers to detecting and blocking computer viruses. See antivirus program, behavior blocking, virus and virus hoaxes. protection, anti-spyware protection, personal firewall protection, patch management The installation of patches from a software vendor onto an organization's computers. Patching thousands of PCs and servers is a major issue. A patch should be applied to test machines first before deployment, and the testing environments must represent all the users' PCs with their unique and authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. to secure remote desktops and laptops. Site-to-Site VPN solutions are also available. Positive Networks was awarded "Best-in-Class" Managed SSL VPN Service Provider for SMBs by Stratecast Partners and an AlwaysON AO100 selection. PositivePRO is a 2006 IT Week Magazine's, Network Technology and WebWeek Magazine's "Editor's Choice selection, and an Info Security Product Guide Product Excellence Award winner for Best SSL VPN Managed Service. For more information, please call toll-free 877-932-8671 or visit www.positivenetworks.com. About Possibility Media Possibility Media, publishers of Hosting Week Magazine and Service Provider Weekly, provides readers with the latest news, reviews, product information, opinion and trends to technology. Both magazines are published in an all digital format that is well-designed and easy-to-read. In addition, these publications publish profiles and features on the people and products that shape the technology industry. For more information, go to www.spweekly.com and www.hostingweekmag.com PositivePRO and Positive Networks are trademarks of Positive Networks; all other company, product and publication names are trademarks of their respective holders. |
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