CoreSight - leading Australian security

CoreSight partners Akonix have just announced the upcoming availability of L7 EnterpriseT Version 7.1, including an important new product module, L7 Enterprise for the BlackBerry® Enterprise Solution.

This new module provides message archiving for BlackBerry SMS and PIN-to-PIN text messaging for compliance to regulations governing electronic communications.  In addition, Akonix L7 Enterprise also provides security, policy management, and archiving for the use of Microsoft® Office Communicator Mobile, IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Mobile and MindAlignT Mobile instant messaging on BlackBerry handhelds through the L7 Enterprise for Enterprise IM module (available separately).

CoreSight partner Imprivata Inc has been recently been named Best Security Solution for Healthcare at the prestigious 2008 SC Magazine Europe Awards for the second consecutive year.

Held alongside the Infosecurity Europe 2008 conference, the awards saw Imprivata’s OneSign granted this award for the results it is delivering to healthcare organisations across the UK and Europe.  These results include greater security, ease of management, and increased user productivity.  Imprivata - the converged identity and access management appliance company - also received an Honourable Commendation in the Best Identity Management Solution Category at the awards.

With OneSign, organizations of all sizes can achieve complete centralized management and reporting of user identities across all of their physical, network and application access points 

LEXINGTON, MA - December 3, 2007 - Imprivata®, Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company, today announced a significant advance in its award-winning OneSign platform. Version 4.0 extends OneSign’s identity-centric access and authentication services across system and geographic boundaries with complete distributed management, delegated administration and business continuity capabilities.  For the first time, a single centralized employee IT access policy can determine every aspect of access across all users, all rights, all locations and all conditions. OneSign delivers these capabilities with the industry’s most easy-to-use and deploy solution without requiring changes to existing IT and physical access infrastructures.

"Our success in helping mid-sized companies manage any number of identity-related initiatives has attracted strong interest from larger organizations suffering from the inability ...

A botnet created by a Trojan and transmitted through MSN Messenger has already infected thousands of PCs since its launch on Sunday, giving attackers potential access to an untold amount of personal and financial information.

"It's another sign that companies need to take steps to protect themselves from infections," said Don Montgomery, vice president of marketing of San Diego-based Akonix Systems. "Corporations have a responsibility to not be propagating these threats." The malware, first detected by security company Aladdin, came in the form of files that emulated pictures sent from seemingly known users. 

If you think you’re drowning in computer passwords, consider the plight of some doctors today. Many medical offices have a separate computer in each exam room, with several databases and other programs running on each machine. Programs containing patient data must be password-protected, and one study found that to access this data, some doctors had to type their passwords an astonishing 200 times an hour. In the time they spent typing passwords, the study estimated, these physicians could have seen one extra patient per day. The programmers at Imprivata of Lexington, MA, want to help businesses keep computers and data safe while sparing their workers from the plague of passwords. “Good security should be transparent,” says David Ting, the company’s founder and chief technology officer. “It’s like when you’re driving your car. You are surrounded by tons of technology designed to protect you, yet you don’t see it. We are trying to do the same in the IT space, by providing a secure environment without impeding your ability to get your work done.”

SEATTLE, October 17, 2007 – Attachmate Corporation today announced the general availability of Reflection(R) for IBM(R) 2007, its next generation, built-for-Windows Vista  terminal emulation solution. Reflection for IBM 2007 is certified for Windows Vista and takes advantage of multiple enhancements found in Microsoft Corp.'s newest operating system.

Imprivata's OneSign has been used to successfully deploy single sign-on capabilities to 1,000 users at Renasant Bank, according to a recent article now online at the Bank Systems and Technology site.

James A. Hayes, Renasant Bank's first VP and network operations manager said that because they already used Citrix for  application delivery to their Wyse terminals, the bank first looked at Citrix SSO.  Hayes relates "But we decided you'd need to be a rocket scientist to configure it, or you'd need to pay Citrix to do it for you. Either option was unacceptable".

The results are out .. and it's good news if you are looking to implement enterprise single sign-on.  It's even better news if you're looking at Imprivata, who were placed in the leaders quadrant of the report and perceived as the easiest SSO solution to implement.  CoreSight are currently the only Australian Imprivata partners and have qualified technical resource and an evaluation / proof of concept appliance available today.  So please, contact us whether you're after more information about Imprivata to consider through to the point of wanting to implement an Imprivata proof of concept. 

The Gartner report includes what we thought was a particularly well-rounded description of the market which states: