* Finding Sanctuary in SecureWave's security products
I guess I could plead senility. At my advanced age, product names and vendor names sometimes take on a life of their own. As a number of people inside and outside Novell have pointed out, I got something wrong in the newsletter “Novell safeguards nets from USB-borne malware” a couple of weeks ago. As my friend Martin Buckley, former ZENworks guru and now Novell’s director of product management and identity products business team, pointed out: “One clarification – the vendor is SecureWave.”
You can read more about SecureWave’s Sanctuary Custom Edition, a desktop and server security product that Novell will be reselling here, and you can also request an evaluation version here. It’s well worth a try.
But even before doing that, you can use the live demonstration to see just how Sanctuary’s “white list” approach works. SecureWave has set up a pair of servers one of which runs the signature database and the Sanctuary Server (SXS); the other one is protected by the Sanctuary Driver (SXD) and runs Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, to enable you to log on to the computer. On the latter machine, SecureWave offers a small (and restricted) administrative client which lets you grant or deny permission for selected programs to yourself while you are logged on.
The important message is the one I did include with the newsletter: When combined with Novell ZENworks and eDirectory, Sanctuary helps customers to ensure compliance with privacy regulations, enforce and audit application and device usage policies and improve security at the network’s most risk-prone point – the desktop. Find out for yourself.
