New Product Blitz To Stir Up Security Show

Computer Associates International plans to outline its strategy to meld its eTrust Identity products and eTrust Access Management products into a single suite consisting of eTrust Admin, eTrust Access Control, eTrust Audit, eTrust Directory, eTrust Single Sign-On and eTrust Web Access Control.

CA, Islandia, N.Y., expects to begin offering the suite for the subscription price of $1 per user, per month. ETrust Admin will be the first piece of the suite available under this new payment model. Each component of the suite will still be available as a stand-alone product.

"We expect to have one common user interface and one common architecture for the suite by May 2004," said Bill Mann, vice president of product management, eTrust Security. "People want one solution that can manage identity and access who people are, what they are allowed to do and what they did, across the enterprise."

For its part, 8e6 Technologies plans to demonstrate its next-generation content-filtering appliance, R3000, at the show. Orange, Calif.-based 8e6 is moving to a Red Hat Linux operating system versus BSD Unix in this version of the product.

The security vendor also redesigned the user interface, introduced blocking capabilities for instant messaging and beefed up the number of blocking category choices to 78 from 37.

R3000 pricing for both the hardware and subscription service starts at $10,995 for a 1,000-user license and $5,500 for a 500-user license.

"[Instant messaging] blocking is huge, from our standpoint," said Nick Percoco, associate partner at information advisory security firm Ambiron, Chicago. "A lot of our customers are concerned about confidential information leaving their environment through [instant messaging]."

Also at the show, nCircle, San Francisco, plans to unveil the IP360, the latest version of its appliance-based vulnerability management system.

The system now includes Discriminant Analysis, which discovers and identifies devices on the network and eliminates vulnerabilities, and Flexible Business Framework, which gives customers the ability to tailor vulnerability management to specific business risks and processes.

Information Strategies, a Washington-based services company focused on the government, plans to unveil a partnership with nCircle during the show. "Everyone is trying to be more proactive versus waiting until something is already broken in-house because of a vulnerability," said James Townsend, president of Information Strategies. "[nCircle] lets our customers see where they have vulnerabilities and eliminate them."