Week in Security: IBM Services Initiative, Novell & Biometrics
November 26, 2001 9:09 AM ET
Here's a rundown of some of the events, announcements and other happenings in information security last week:
•IBM announced a global initiative to expand its security services. Under the initiative, IBM Global Services will expand its security and privacy services to include new offerings such as enhanced intrusion detection services, vulnerability assessments, security policy assessments, managed firewall services, VPNs, authentication services and public WLANs. Rusine Mitchell-Sinclair will lead the IBM Global Services Safety and Security Practice.
IBM also created a new corporate-level Global Solutions Office to address broader safety and security issues in industry and society. Elizabeth Primrose-Smith will head that office.
•Novell, Provo, Utah, said it is improving its security solutions through new partnerships with several biometric security companies, including AuthenTec, Biometricate, Iridian Technologies and Precise Biometrics. Novell's security framework, NMAS (Novell Modular Authentication Services), now supports enhanced integration with the biometric technologies of those partners. The integration of biometric technologies, such as fingerprint scans, boosts Novell's user authentication products, Novell said.
•Loudcloud, Sunnyvale, Calif., expanded its managed security services with four new offerings: Vulnerability Analysis, Intrusion Detection Analysis, Application Code Review and Application Attack Simulation.
•Riptech, a provider of managed security services based in Alexandria, Va., announced that it joined the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice and Video Integrated Data) Partner Program as a security and VPN solutions member. Riptech said the partnership will expand its market reach.
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