Brian Fonseca

Less than halfway through the first calendar month of 2003, and already end-users have had to stave off computer threats such as a DHCP multiple buffer overflow vulnerability, the Sobig worm, the Lirva worm, and remnants of the Yaha virus. Blended and longer lifespan malicious code attacks are expected to run rampant in the New Year, but they are far from the only dangers angling to make life miserable for security administrators.

Pushing its deep XML processing and networking experience, DataPower Technology Inc. turned its fortunes toward a crowded security ring on Monday with the release of its XS40 XML Security Gateway for securing Web services transactions.

IBM Corp. on Tuesday unveiled IBM Tivoli License Manager, a productized version of a popular IBM Global Services (IGS) offering designed to help customers get a leg up on remedying software license tracking and compliance complexities.

Netegrity Inc. in October released TransactionMinder, its new policy-based authentication and management product that ensures only authorized applications or parties can access Web services and keeps track of any access attempts.

Netegrity Inc. will announce Tuesday that it is releasing TransactionMinder, its new policy-based authentication and management product that ensures only authorized applications or parties can access Web services and keeps track of any access attempts.

Whether in direct correlation to its sparse attendance or to simply cement the understanding that IT budget spending is still under lock and key, attendees at the Network + Interop/Comdex conference this week in Atlanta are expressing a desire to wrest greater value from their existing network products rather than invest in new management and application performance wares.

To help end users thwart a broad range of network attacks aimed at exploiting multiple parts of an enterprise, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Okena Inc., and Intruvert Networks Inc. announced the creation of a new Intrusion Prevention Ecosystem on Monday at the Networld+Interop and Comdex 2002 conference, in Atlanta.

Under pressure from customers to brace network systems to withstand disasters and shutdowns, organizations are investigating ways to enlist business continuity services, from companies such as T-Systems AG and EMC Corp., as a flexible safety net.