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Security Dynamics
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Siemens Nixdorf
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Schlumberg
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Network Hardware
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Encryption
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Hardware
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Corporation
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Hardware
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Cross-vendor usage, ease of use, interoperability, and practical applicability remain crucial issues.
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Firewalls provide some examples of the problems around ease of use and interoperability. While
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the industry has recently made strides in its interfaces and simplicity, configuring and managing
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firewalls remains a complex task for most IT managers. Similarly, very few firewalls interoperate
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with each other, specifically in the areas of virtual private networking (VPN).
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. . The final limitation in many security offerings is their lack of focus on the practical security
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concerns of enterprises. While many vendors have pieced together point solutions or introduced
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broad, far-reaching frameworks, they have ignored the real requirements of and constraints placed
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upon enterprise IT managers, such as:
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In an enterprise with multiple platforms and the eventuality of working with other enterprises
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over public networks, IT managers security solutions must be based on open, interoperable
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standards, not proprietary systems.
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Enterprises need a clear migration path from their currently limited security solutions to the
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most comprehensive solutions possible, with stops along the way depending on their various
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levels of need.
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The current offerings of most system vendors do not address these concerns.
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— Example Companies —
Authentication
Servers
Tokens
Security Dynamics
Enigma Logic
Leemah Datacom
CheckPoint
Cisco
3Com
Computing
Encryption
RSA
Cylink
Entrust
Terisa
VPNet
Ti m eStep-
PERMIT
Intel
Aladdin
Software
Eracom
NetLock
(div. of
Atalla
Hughes)
Leemah Dt
D igital Si g nature
RSA
Cylink
Entrust
Auditing/Management
Software
Figure 12
Certificate
Authorities
VeriSign
CyberTrust
(GTE)
Entrust
Firewalls
Raptor
Secure
VPN
Services
AT&T
Sprint
PSINet
Virus
MFS
Protection
Symantec
McAfee
Cheyenne
Haystack
ISS
M C I
Services