Richard Stone, vice president of marketing at CredantOnce they're mobile, it's nice to ...
... know that you can kill them. Not end users, of course. Just their devices. You can do that and more with an update to Credant Mobile Guardian Enterprise Edition, a mobile security tool sold by Credant Technologies Inc. in Addison, Texas. Richard Stone, Credant's vice president of marketing, said Version 5.1 lets you secure all manner of mobile devices -- even to the point of sending over-the-air "kill" signals that render them useless. Stone says Credant's intelligent software agents can run on everything from BlackBerries to laptop PCs and enforce security policies that you set from a single management console. You can encrypt specific files or all the data on a device. You can even password-protect files on USB fobs or iPods, he says. The update also offers support for two-factor authentication. The revision is available this week and starts at $42 per user.
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The ISM Express 1000 helps manage global security policies.... are being brought to the corporate enterprise. So promises Arun Chandra, CEO of iPolicy Networks Inc. in Fremont, Calif. He says iPolicy's line of appliances evaluates every single packet on your network in real time and applies firewall, intrusion detection and prevention, virus protection and other security measures controlled from a console called the iPolicy Security Manager. With an ISM Version 2.5 update that becomes available today, you can virtualize sales, engineering and other business domains across physical locations and manage them as a single entity. The software lets you define security policies on more than 500 of iPolicy's appliances worldwide. You can run it stand-alone or on the company's new ISM Express 1000 management appliance, which costs $20,000.
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