Sana Security Updates Intrusion-Prevention Solution

Primary Response, an intrusion-prevention solution that runs on the host to detect and block server vulnerabilities, now also supports Linux platforms and Windows 2003.

Prior versions only supported Windows and Solaris.

"We wanted to make it easier to deploy our solution across thousands and even tens of thousands of machines, so we expanded our platform coverage to enable this," said Steve Hofmeyr, founder and chief scientist at Sana, San Mateo, Calif.

The security vendor also expanded vulnerability protection to custom applications and Microsoft Exchange mail servers.

Assets and machines can now also be organized and managed in different groups according to pre-defined policies, said Hofmeyr.

Integration with third-party management systems such as Hewlett-Packard OpenView and IBM Tivoli is now available as well.

"With the integration, the goal here is to give large organizations a single security or network management console with the events that we track coming into that console," Hofmeyr said. "That console will control our systems from their location without having to go directly to our main console."

Primary Response 2.0 with SanaProfile Agent support for Microsoft Exchange, Windows 2003 and Linux Advanced Server will be available in December 2003. Pricing is $6,500 for the management server and $1,750 for each application server agent.