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NetScreen Delivers Industry's First Dedicated SSL-Based
Appliances for Secure, Cost-Effective Online Meetings and Peer-to-Peer
Collaboration
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NetScreen Technologies,
Inc. todayannounced availability of the new NetScreen Secure Meeting
appliances, the industry's first dedicated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-based
appliances for secure, cost-effective online meetings and application sharing
sessions.
The NetScreen Secure Meetingappliances enable enterprises to instantly and
securely provision online meetings, remote desktop support and conferencing
sessions to hundreds of concurrent users per system without the potential
security trade-offs and recurring costs of hosted services or software-based
extranet deployments. The new Secure Meeting appliances provide a wealth of
features including authentication and authorization, central management,
cross-platform support (Microsoft Corp. Windows, Apple Computer Inc. Mac OSX and
Linux platforms), clustering and performance scalability.
"The online meeting and collaboration market continues to expand with the growth
of hosted service and software package providers," said Lou Latham, research
analyst, Knowledge Workplace, Gartner Group. "We've seen recent requirements
for more security in cross-enterprise collaboration. This capability delivered
in an infrastructure product can equip enterprises with security functionality
such as authentication, authorization and auditing when extending online
meetings beyond the perimeter of their secure network. A secure collaboration
appliance can reduce costs over recurring hosted service fees, as well."
"The new Secure Meeting appliances are impressive and have the potential for
cost savings compared to traditional meeting options," said Peter Lam, director
of Information Technology for the Alameda County Office of Education. "In the
past, we've used software-based solutions and though they were functional, the
installation was very complex and ultimately expensive. The Secure Meeting
appliance gives us greater flexibility with easy-to-use Web conferencing and
online collaboration. In addition, the Secure Meeting appliance enables us to
access clients' desktops as necessary without having to install software -- this
is a great benefit for our organization in providing remote support. I can't
wait to see their future products."
Traditional Web conferencing service providers and peer-to-peer (P2P)
applications can circumvent corporate security policies, leaving the IT
administrator without visibility into application sharing events. This problem
can lead to unauthorized disclosures and file transfers, or the possible spread
of P2P-based worms. By applying an infrastructure approach to user-to-user
sessions, the Secure Meeting appliances enable enterprises to take greater
control over authentication, authorization and auditing (AAA), and can prevent
confidential information from leaving the network undetected or the transfer of
infected files via P2P file sharing.
While hosted service providers offer travel cost savings over face-to-face
meetings, they still can be expensive due to recurring monthly fee structures.
Until now, alternatives to hosted services were software-based collaboration
extranet deployments, which can be complex, costly and can increase an
enterprise's risk profile. Extranet deployments often require custom
integration for security features and increase the number of public facing
services that must be hardened against attack.
Dedicated NetScreen Secure Meeting Appliances
Built upon the award-winning Neoteris(R) Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE)
platform, the new NetScreen Secure Meeting appliances can enable anytime,
anywhere online meetings, real-time collaborative sessions, multi-location
document review, and remote desktop support and diagnostics. New Secure Meeting
appliance capabilities include:
-- Application Sharing - real-time collaboration for up to 250 concurrent
users per system;
-- Policy-Based AAA and Password Management - client-side certificates,
two-factor authentication and LDAP integration; granular group- and
role-based authorizations to control access; and detailed audit logs
and recording of each event;
-- Central Management - unified policy and configuration management for
Secure Meeting clusters;
-- Delegated Administration and Scheduling - system administrators can
hand-off and delegate user management and scheduling to meeting
operators;
-- Audit Queries and Filters - template-based queries of the meeting log
for reporting purposes;
-- Clustering and Fail-Over - fault tolerant and highly available online
meetings to minimize complexity;
-- Customizable User Interface - department or partner specific sign-in
URL and Web pages; and
-- Cross-Platform Support - supports attendees using Windows, Mac OSX and
Linux platforms.
The new dedicated NetScreen Secure Meeting appliances represent an innovative
SSL appliance-based approach to cost-effectively solve the security and cost
problems that hinder broader adoption of cross-enterprise online meetings.
Maintaining the same ease of use and simple deployment approach asthe market
leading NetScreen Secure Access SSL VPN appliances, the NetScreen Secure Meeting
appliances have best-in-class security and require no custom software
configuration or new server deployments. Users can hold secure meetings and can
conduct remote desktop support and conferencing sessions via any Web browser and
Internet connection, without requiring the deployment of new desktop clients.
"With the new NetScreen Secure Meeting appliances, enterprises can instantly and
securely deploy a dedicated appliance that can provision application sharing and
online meetings to hundreds of attendees," said Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri, general
manager, NetScreen's secure access products. "By delivering Web-based meeting
functionality without the securitytrade-offs and high recurring cost of
traditional approaches, the NetScreen Secure Meeting appliances fundamentally
change the collaboration and Web conferencing options available to
enterprises."
Availability
The new NetScreen Secure Meeting (SM) appliances are now available --
NetScreen-SM 3010, 3020 and 3030. The NetScreen Secure Meeting functionality is
also available for purchase as a license upgrade to the NetScreen Secure Access
appliances. The NetScreen Secure Meeting appliances can be managed from the
NetScreen-SM Central Manager product.
About NetScreen Technologies
NetScreen Technologies, Inc. is a leading developer of network security and
access solutions for enterprises and carriers worldwide. NetScreen's solutions
offer customers multiple layers of network and application-level protection in
purpose-built appliances and systems that meet customers' security, performance
and total cost of ownership objectives. NetScreen is located at 805 11th Ave.,
Sunnyvale, Calif., 94089. More information on NetScreen's products can be found
at http://www.netscreen.com/ or by calling toll free at 1-800-638-8296.
NetScreen, Neoteris and the NetScreen logo are trademarks of NetScreen
Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
This press release contains forward-looking statements about events and
circumstances that have not yet occurred. For example, words such as "will,"
"can," "provides," "enables," "designed," "allows" and "continues", or other
statements in the future tense, are forward-looking statements. Actual outcomes
and results may differ materially from expectations in this press release due to
a number of risks and uncertainties. Such risks and uncertainties include
whether the market for security products will grow as projected, if at all,
whether demand for NetScreen products will continue, whether new products if and
when introduced, will be successful and whether products will perform as
expected.
DATASOURCE: NetScreen Technologies, Inc.
CONTACT: Amy Lee, +1-408-962-8259, , or Dan Spalding,
+1-408-962-8204, , both of NetScreen Technologies,
Inc.
Web site: http://www.netscreen.com/