Symantec's acquisition will enable the combined company to develop comprehensive security products, combining lucrative anti-virus software with firewall, encryption and VPN (virtual private network) technology.
The Israeli company, founded in 1993, specialises in firewall and VPN (Virtual Private Network) software and debuted on the stock market in 1996. Other companies promoted to the Nasdaq-100 include net hosting company Exodus Communications...
SSL has become a popular alternative to VPNs that use IPsec encryption and tunneling for connecting remote workers to corporate networks. Because SSL VPNs give access through a standard web browser instead of through an IPsec client running on each...
The denial of service vulnerability enables hackers to crash IPSec VPN machines using a specially designed UDP packet. We have determined that it's possible for an attacker with modest resources to scan the entire routed internet address space...
The list of affected products includes Cisco IOS, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco Firewall Services Module, Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators and the Cisco MDS Series SanOS, according to the alert. The technology is used in IPsec virtual private...
Whale's SSL encryption particularly interested the software giant, as it complements Microsoft's application-layer firewall, VPN and web cache software, ISA Server 2006, according to Kutwaroo. Recent acquisitions such as Winternals and virtual...