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[ariane] 04/4/2004 10:42

Tripwire Delivers Single-Point Integration With Security And Enterprise Management Consoles

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Date posted in ITsecurity.com: 10 March, 2004
Tripwire Manager 4.1 improves enterprise manageability and integration capabilities

London – 9 March 2004 – Tripwire®, Inc., the world leader in change monitoring and reporting software, today announced enhancements to its server management console, Tripwire Manager, easing integration between Tripwire for Servers and security management consoles and enterprise management systems. Tripwire Manager 4.1 delivers single-point access to detailed monitoring and reporting of changes occurring on multiple Tripwire-enabled servers through existing security and enterprise management consoles. This provides IT administrators and managers with centralized visibility of authorized or unauthorized changes affecting service availability and tighter control over change management processes, enabling increased server security and accountability and ultimately ensuring availability of IT services.

“Managing today’s complex, heterogeneous operating environments is consuming significant resources and making a staggering impact on our industry,” said Wyatt Starnes, president and CEO of Tripwire. “In an effort to help companies streamline and automate critical infrastructure processes, we've improved Tripwire Manager 4.1 to enable enterprise-wide change detection and reporting through single-point access.”

Enterprise customers can monitor thousands of Tripwire for Servers installations remotely from Tripwire Manager. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology provides authentication and data encryption to protect each communication link between Tripwire Manager and Tripwire-equipped servers. Tripwire 4.1 software integrates with security management consoles such as eSecurity Sentinel and ArcSight, and enterprise management systems such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, Remedy, Micromuse Netcool and others.

“The new integration capabilities with the Tripwire Manager 4.1 release make integrating Tripwire’s change detection capabilities into our e-Security Sentinel console much easier,” said Reed Harrison, CTO of eSecurity. “Our customers need to focus on critical tasks such as keeping their infrastructure secure and available. Integrating Tripwire’s detailed change reporting into our products is a key element in providing our customers with the tools they need to do their jobs effectively.”

Tripwire for Servers with Tripwire Manager is a change monitoring and reporting system that provides IT system administrators the ability to report on in-depth file system changes on Windows and UNIX servers.

Information regarding changes to the system is reported and integrated with other security and enterprise management systems to provide IT administrators and managers with information to answer the fundamental question that is asked when servers go down or do not operate properly: “What changed?” This enables increased server security, accountability of changes, and improved visibility of authorized and unauthorized changes, which ultimately ensures the high availability of IT services.

“At IP Services our business is managing mission-critical and revenue-generating IT infrastructure for large enterprises. Our clients choose us because of our extraordinary closed-loop change management process and control capabilities,” said Kevin Behr, CTO of IP Services.

“Tripwire is a critical building block in our change management architecture, as we use it to close the loop on all infrastructure changes. The new version represents a tremendous advancement in integration capabilities that allowed us to put Tripwire’s powerful detective control capabilities to work immediately. Thanks to Tripwire our system of controls has never been stronger.”

About Tripwire, Inc.
Tripwire, Inc. is the world leader in change monitoring and reporting.

Tripwire® solutions enable enterprises to reduce operational risk and gain control over IT systems. With Tripwire software, you ensure the security of your systems, instill accountability for change, gain visibility across your enterprise and increase the availability of critical IT infrastructure. Tripwire customers include Global 3000 companies, e-business corporations, and key public sector organizations such as Intuit, AT&T, Ernst & Young and the U.S. House of Representatives. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore., with offices in Japan and France and users in 92 countries around the world.

www.tripwire.com

[ariane] 04/4/2004 10:27

TRIPWIRE DELIVERS SINGLE-POINT INTEGRATION WITH SECURITY AND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT CONSOLES
Tripwire Manager 4.1 improves enterprise manageability and integration capabilities

London, UK - March 9th, 2004 - Tripwire®, Inc., the world leader in change monitoring and reporting software, today announced enhancements to its server management console, Tripwire Manager, easing integration between Tripwire for Servers and security management consoles and enterprise management systems. Tripwire Manager 4.1 delivers single-point access to detailed monitoring and reporting of changes occurring on multiple Tripwire-enabled servers through existing security and enterprise management consoles. This provides IT administrators and managers with centralized visibility of authorized or unauthorized changes affecting service availability and tighter control over change management processes, enabling increased server security and accountability and ultimately ensuring availability of IT services.


"Managing today’s complex, heterogeneous operating environments is consuming significant resources and making a staggering impact on our industry," said Wyatt Starnes, president and CEO of Tripwire. "In an effort to help companies streamline and automate critical infrastructure processes, we’ve improved Tripwire Manager 4.1 to enable enterprise-wide change detection and reporting through single-point access."


Enterprise customers can monitor thousands of Tripwire for Servers installations remotely from Tripwire Manager. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology provides authentication and data encryption to protect each communication link between Tripwire Manager and Tripwire-equipped servers. Tripwire 4.1 software integrates with security management consoles such as eSecurity Sentinel and ArcSight, and enterprise management systems such as HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, Remedy, Micromuse Netcool and others.


"The new integration capabilities with the Tripwire Manager 4.1 release make integrating Tripwire’s change detection capabilities into our e-Security Sentinel console much easier," said Reed Harrison, CTO of eSecurity. "Our customers need to focus on critical tasks such as keeping their infrastructure secure and available. Integrating Tripwire’s detailed change reporting into our products is a key element in providing our customers with the tools they need to do their jobs effectively."


Tripwire for Servers with Tripwire Manager is a change monitoring and reporting system that provides IT system administrators the ability to report on in-depth file system changes on Windows and UNIX servers. Information regarding changes to the system is reported and integrated with other security and enterprise management systems to provide IT administrators and managers with information to answer the fundamental question that is asked when servers go down or do not operate properly: "What changed?" This enables increased server security, accountability of changes, and improved visibility of authorized and unauthorized changes, which ultimately ensures the high availability of IT services.


"At IP Services our business is managing mission-critical and revenue-generating IT infrastructure for large enterprises. Our clients choose us because of our extraordinary closed-loop change management process and control capabilities," said Kevin Behr, CTO of IP Services. "Tripwire is a critical building block in our change management architecture, as we use it to close the loop on all infrastructure changes. The new version represents a tremendous advancement in integration capabilities that allowed us to put Tripwire’s powerful detective control capabilities to work immediately. Thanks to Tripwire our system of controls has never been stronger."


About Tripwire, Inc.
Tripwire, Inc. is the world leader in change monitoring and reporting. Tripwire® solutions enable enterprises to reduce operational risk and gain control over IT systems. With Tripwire software, you ensure the security of your systems, instill accountability for change, gain visibility across your enterprise and increase the availability of critical IT infrastructure. Tripwire customers include Global 3000 companies, e-business corporations, and key public sector organizations such as Intuit, AT&T, Ernst & Young and the U.S. House of Representatives. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore., with offices in Japan and France and users in 92 countries around the world.

[grupo guitarlumber] 02/4/2004 20:35

13.72 euros

[maywillow] 01/4/2004 22:09

ONDON, April 1 (New Ratings) – Analysts at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein maintain their "sell" rating on Alcatel. The target price is set to €8.

In a research note published this morning, the analysts mention that Alcatel has failed to announce a solution for its handset making division. The majority stake in the company’s handset business is to be sold to an outside party and advanced talks are continuing with several potential merger candidates, the analysts add. Agreement on the price of the acquisition and the restructuring costs seem to be delaying the deal, the analysts believe.

[waldron] 01/4/2004 11:50

PARIS (AFX) - Market data at 10.15 am:

Major indices:
CAC-40 up 30.96 points at 3,656.19
SBF-80 up 15.67 at 3,520.78
SBF-120 up 20.21 at 2,602.85

Volume: 557.3 mln eur
36 CAC-40 stocks up
3 CAC-40 stocks down
Vinci unchanged at 78.10 eur

Major gainers:
-Alcatel, up 0.56 eur or 4.2 pct at 13.38 eur, after Ericsson said it is
raising its first quarter 2004 gross margin expectations.
-STMicroelectronics, up 0.47 eur or 2.4 pctat 19.65 eur
-Scor, up 0.05 eur or 3.5 pct at 1.48 eur after the company said its net
loss narrowed to 314 mln eur last year from 455 mln in 2002 and it swung to a
profit of 35 mln eur in the fourth quarter.

Major losers:
-PPR, down 2.05 eur or 2.4 pct at 83.00, hit by weak fourth quarter results
from its Gucci unit, with a Merrill Lynch downgrade to 'sell' from 'neutral'
putting further pressure on the stock.
-Total, down 0.60 eur at 148.80 eur, after yesterday's gains.

Most active stocks:
-Alcatel, in volume of 101.6 mln eur, up 0.56 eur at 13.38 eur
-Total, 88.18 mln eur, down 0.60 eur at 148.80 eur
-STMicroelectronics, 34.08 mln eur, up 0.47 eur at 19.65
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[waldron] 31/3/2004 15:08

PARIS (AFX) - Alcatel SA said it has won a contract to run call centres and
manage client information from AXA SA's Spanish auto insurance unit, Direct
Seguros.
In a statement, Alcatel said the contract is one of the biggest of its kind
in Spain, without providing financial terms.
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[waldron] 31/3/2004 14:33

LONDON, March 31 (New Ratings) - Analysts at JP Morgan reiterate their "underweight" rating on Alcatel (CGE), while raising their estimates for the company. The target price has been raised from €8.50 to €11.00

[maywillow] 31/3/2004 11:54

PARIS (AFX) - Alcatel SA said it has won a contract worth 30 mln eur to
supply BT Group PLC with an IP-based service delivery platform which supports
number translation and network-based call centre services.
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[maywillow] 31/3/2004 09:09

VON Keynote: Alcatel -- Migrating from VoIP to MMoIP
"We are at the dawn of the rich, media-connected world," said Vickie Yohie, Senior Vice President, Multimedia Services Delivery, Alcatel, speaking at the Spring VON conference in Santa Clara, California. But it is not just about VoIP, she said, as VoIP "is just one face of a larger market shift to user centric Multimedia over IP (MMoIP)" -- technology that is transforming the way enterprises and service providers communicate.

Why MMoIP? Yohie argues "because we can" and "because there is genuine market enthusiasm to do so." Over the past few years, the pain points inside most large enterprises have changed -- the corporate workers of today complain most about a new set of collaboration challenges, most of which are rooted in the lack of coordination between communications channels. These issues, argues Yohie, can be addressed by user centric business services delivered using MMoIP.

Consumers are also ready for value added services. While last year can be remembered as the Year of the Consumer Bundles, Yohie said tremendous pressure is now building among operators to differentiate those consumer bundles using unified messaging. Among broadband households with a home business, some 60% are interested in unified messaging, according to a survey commissioned by the company..

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[maywillow] 30/3/2004 18:26

PARIS (AFX) - Alcatel said that 366 mln eur or 36.7 pct of the 995 mln eur
in 2006 7 pct notes still in circulation have been tendered for its exchange
offer.
The company said the bonds tendered will be replaced, after exchange rate
adjustments, with 412 mln in new 6.375 pct bonds due April 2014.
Including the extra 50 mln eur in notes announced earlier, the company will
issue 462 mln in fresh bonds.
mrg/jlw

[waldron] 29/3/2004 14:49

(Updating with details of India jobs in 5th paragraph)
PARIS (AFX) - Alcatel said it is to increase its investments in R&D for
internet-based voice services, creating 100 new posts in Europe and a support
centre in India.
No financial details were disclosed.
The move is part of Alcatel's strategy of refocusing its activities around
broadband internet services and wireless data infrastructure.
The company aims to become one of the world's three largest providers of
internet voice technology, behind Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks.
The company will hire some 115 people at software maintenance sites in India
before the end of 2005.
In a separate statement, Alcatel said it agreed with French unions a plan
which will see 450 new recruits in 2004 at the same time as the company cuts 500
posts, mostly through early retirement.
The plan will also see 900 other workers redeployed and responds to the
decline in sectors such as conventional fixed-line networks against growth in
the mobile services sector, Alcatel said.
Alcatel's new Indian site will employ 115 people for software technical
support.
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[maywillow] 25/3/2004 15:30

RUSSIA





Russia satellite launch prepared at Baikonur



25.03.2004, 16.07



MOSCOW, March 25 (Itar-Tass) - Specialists began on Thursday the pre-launch preparation of a DM propulsion unit of a Proton-K rocket that will deliver in orbit the Russian satellite Express-AM.

A cosmodrome official told Itar-Tass that that the launch of Proton, the third this year, was scheduled for the last days of April.

Three Express communications satellites will be launched this year. Their service life in orbit is 12 years.

Heavy-lift Protons with DM propulsion units will shot the satellites in geostationary orbits.

The DM unit and the satellite make a cone of the Proton rocket.

The propulsion unit serves to move a satellite from a low support orbit to a high target orbit.

Specialists of Zheleznogorsk’s Reshetnev Institute of Applied Mechanics and of France’s company Alcatel designed the Express-AM satellites.

They are intended for relaying television and radio programmes and Internet information, and for providing digital telephone communications.

The first satellite of this series was launched in December 2003.

A total of five Express satellites will be launched.

[maywillow] 25/3/2004 12:18

SPACE WIRE
Alcatel launches broadband wireless research center in Taiwan

PARIS (AFP) Mar 24, 2004
Alcatel, the French telecommunications equipment maker, announced Wednesday the launch of a research and development center in Taiwan focused on the broadband wireless application market.Alcatel said it had signed the contract with Taiwan authorities to officially inaugurate the Alcatel ICT Applications R and D Center in Taiwan with government funding support.

The center aims at promoting the integration of information, communication and telecommunication (ICT) related industries of Taiwan, and as such is in line with Taiwan's goal of becoming the region's hub for advanced technologies development, the French company said in a statement.

The Alcatel project is the first to receive committed government support in the telecommunication industry, it said, without revealing the amount of the government funding.

The project is part of Taiwan's 2003-2008 plan to upgrade its communications infrastructure. The government has allocated a total budget of 31 billion dollars (25.5 billion euros) for the five-year plan, Alcatel said.

[grupo guitarlumber] 23/3/2004 21:37

LONDON, March 23 (New Ratings) - Analysts at Merck Finck & Co issue a "hold" rating on Siemens (SIE).

In a research note published yesterday, the analysts mention that a French weekly newsletter has reported that Siemens would be hiring a German bank to make a bid for Alcatel. Siemens has indicated, however, that it is not interested in the acquisition, the analysts add. Alcatel's ADSL technology would boost Siemens' ICN carrier network segment, if the acquisition were made, the analysts say

[grupo guitarlumber] 23/3/2004 15:52

French aeronautic sales soar 57%
March 23, 2004

Paris - Sales of French planes and aeronautic equipment soared 57 percent in 2003 after a poor performance one year earlier according to estimates released Tuesday by GIFAS, an association of French aeronautic and space companies.

A total of €40.07 billion (R330.97 billion) in sales was recorded by the association that represents the vast majority of French aerospace firms.

The group qualified 2002 as a "gloomy" year during which orders had plunged 27 percent to €25.57 billion.

Last year, orders for military equipment increased 149 percent while civilian material showed a rise of 24 percent, GIFAS said.

The civilian sector nonetheless continued to represent the majority of sales, with 59 percent of the total.

In monetary terms, civilian sales increased to €23.45 billion from €18.88 billion in 2002, while military orders rose to €16.62 billion from €6.68 billion. top.DisplayAds("Pos7",2,565);



Exports accounted for 67 percent of all sales at €26.7 billion euros, up from €16.33 billion.

Military equipment showed strong export growth while domestic orders were stable.

Civilian sales, meanwhile, were curbed by geopolitical tensions and the SARS epidemic, the association noted.

The aerospace sector had a difficult year, with sales slipping 12 percent to €2.76 billion from €3.1 billion in 2002.

Fresh orders taken in by EADS Astrium and Alcatel Space could nonetheless give the sector a boost this year.

The number of jobs in the combined sectors remained globally unchanged at around 101 500 despite economic difficulties, GIFAS said. - AFP

[grupo guitarlumber] 23/3/2004 14:15

LONDON, March 23 (New Ratings) - Analysts at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein reiterate their “sell” rating on Alcatel. The target price is set to €8.

[grupo guitarlumber] 23/3/2004 11:32

PARIS (AFX) - Alcatel SA said it won a three-year contract from Iran's Asre
Danesh Afzar to provide and support a digital subscriber lines network.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The first phase of the contract, which covers 23,000 lines, should be
completed in May. In total Alcatel will supply 100,000 DSL lines, it said.
"This contract further confirms our commitment to helping to accelerate
broadband deployments in emerging markets of the world," Alcatel said in a
statement.
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[grupo guitarlumber] 22/3/2004 18:38

Where the French vendor falls down, says Beniston, is in getting its convergence message across. "Alcatel's softswitch presentation leaves a lot to be desired. It's difficult to understand. Its approach to the market is similar to that of Siemens. They both want to migrate their existing voice switch customers into the VOIP world. But Siemens has a presentation and strategy for operators that's simple to understand. Alcatel doesn't."

Beniston notes that Alcatel is likely focused on its large Tier 1 customers and may not have put as much resource into winning smaller accounts, though its most recent announcement of a softswitch contract was with a small Russian operator (see Alcatel Tests VOIP Waters in Russia ).