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Dec 1, 2002 12:00 PM

Bodacion Technologies, Barrington, Ill. has introduced HYDRA, an invulnerable Internet server. HYDRA is based on Internet standards, making it interoperable with almost every piece of infrastructure in a user's network architecture. It can be deployed inside a user's firewall, outside a firewall, as a replacement for Web servers talking to an application server or database or as the application server.
Circle No. 150 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Internet Security Systems (ISS) Inc., Atlanta, has released a wireless security assessment solution, Wireless ScannerT. The software allows organizations to discover their vulnerability to attack or misuse by internal users and off-site attackers who seek to use wireless connections to circumvent the security measures that protect wired networks. The software facilitates WLAN implementation, detects 802.11 access points from inside and outside a facility's site and provides formatted and sortable reports that display information on WLAN devices, configuration and vulnerabilities.
Circle No. 152 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Asynchrony Solutions Inc., St. Louis, has announced the release of PDA Defense Enterprise, the newest addition to its data security software line for handheld devices. PDA Defense Enterprise uses a unified Windows-based policy editor to set and implement handheld security policy across the enterprise for Palm, Windows Pocket PC and Blackberry devices. The product uses a feature set to lock-down handheld devices, allowing administrators the ability to mandate password control including minimum length, alpha and numeric characters and forced time-based password changes. Once installed, users cannot disable the password protection without intervention by an administrator.
Circle No. 154 or Visit securitysolutions.com

TeleEye Group, Hong Kong, has introduced Cyber TeleEye Web Video Solution, a development tool to help create, build and manage live video on existing Web pages. The video page can be built on login database systems. To facilitate management and security control, the Web administrator can assign different authorization levels of video access to different locations or cameras. The video page supports functions such as telemetry control, alarm notification, live and playback video and adjustable image quality and resolution. It can distribute compressed live videos from four TeleEye video transmitters to multiple Internet users at the same time.
Circle No. 156 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Faulkner Information Services, Pennsauken, N.J., has introduced Security Management Practices, an online security intelligence resource. Security Management Practices delivers advice on security topics such as continuity best practices, facility security, outsourcing security, PKI and emerging biometric technologies, employee screening and on-the-job safety issues, security management training and certification, security laws and regulations and public/private sector partnerships.
Circle No. 158 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Elliptix, Dallas, is a provider of information security and risk management services that has created a Web site (www.elliptix.net) to provide network security consulting to institutions with revenues under $1 billion. Initially, Elliptix will offer enterprise security architecture, security implementation and security assessment and testing services.
Circle No. 151 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Saflink Corp., Seattle, has released SAFsolution Enterprise Edition, a biometric security solution designed for mid- to large-size organizations using Windows Active Directory service. SAFsolution enables enterprises to improve security and ease network administration by replacing text-based passwords with biometric identification methods, such as fingerprint, voice, iris and facial recognition. Network administrators can replace password verification with biometrics on Windows 2000 servers and Windows NT/2000/XP Pro client workstations.
Circle No. 153 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Privacy Council Inc., Richardson, Texas, has announced new products designed to help health care providers meet the privacy compliance rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). The HIPPA Privacy Essentials is a primer that helps health care providers understand how the Privacy Rule impacts an organization. The HIPPA Privacy Implementation Guide is designed to help providers coordinate a compliance strategy. The guide helps to assess existing privacy processes, determine where gaps exist and undertake steps necessary to comply with the HIPPA Privacy Rule.
Circle No. 155 or Visit securitysolutions.com

Advanced Biometric Security (ABS), Littleton, Mass., has teamed with Curtiss-Wright Corp., Lyndhurst, N.J., to release the Enterprise Biometric Framework (EBF), a scalable, standards-based application that integrates multiple biometric technologies including fingerprints, voice patterns, facial recognition, iris scanning and hand-geometry into one networked solution. The EBF is a platform that connects point biometric tools with the rest of the organization's IT systems, physical access control, information access control, surveillance, data mining and screening technologies. The EBF can also record data from intruders and update wordwide law enforcement databases over secure Internet connections in real-time.
Circle No. 157 or Visit securitysolutions.com

PC Guardian, San Rafael, Calif., has announced the Notebook Guardian Slimline, a notebook computer anti-theft lock. Designed to fit the standard security slot found in notebooks, the Guardian Slimline is a one-piece lock and cable and is approximately 1/4-in. narrower than a standard lock head.
Circle No. 159 or Visit securitysolutions.com

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