In brief: D-Link adds firewall products, security appliance

Network World
December 12, 2005 12:03 AM ET

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D-Link last week fortified its NetDefend security product line with new firewall products and a security appliance. The D-Link NetDefend Firewall/VPN Applications (DFL-800 and DFL-1600) combine stateful packet inspection features with content filtering and intrusion detection and protection, the company says. The NetDefend Application Security Gateway (DFL-M510) adds features to D-Link's security line. The product is an application security gateway that monitors and enforces a company's network policies at the application level. The DFL-800 firewall supports 10 100Mbps connections and up to 25,000 concurrent network sessions. The DFL-1600, which supports as many as 400,000 concurrent sessions, also supports six Gigabit Ethernet connections. The offerings are available now and priced as follows: $1,700 for the DFL-800; $7,000 for the DFL-1600; and $2,800 for the DFL-M510.
RSA Security last week said it plans to buy Cyota, a provider of online security and anti-fraud products, for $145 million. The acquisition will let RSA offer customers a broader range of authentication techniques. RSA says it hopes to offer a risk-based authentication approach, letting customers choose an authentication method to meet the risks they face from a portfolio that includes watermarking, digital certificates, tokens and smart cards. RSA also plans to offer Cyota's anti-fraud service, detection of phishing attacks and a transaction-protection service that authenticates credit card users and identifies fraudulent activity in accounts.
Watchfire has announced AppScan 6.0, an updated version of its vulnerability-assessment software that examines Web applications to determine problems such as SQL injection or cross scripting, which hackers could exploit. The Windows-based tool costs $15,000 per user.

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