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Security:
Seclarity Launches, Provides
Transparent Device Level Security
Seclarity Inc, a new information security technology company providing
enterprise solutions for transparently securing desktops and servers,
announced its official launch. Seclarity began development of its transparent
security solution in late 2001, and began shipping products to financial
services, health care and government customers in late 2003.
Seclarity and its transparent security solutions will make its formal debut
at
the Networld + Interop Show in Las Vegas next month. The company's Series A
investors include Blumberg Capital, Intel Capital and Valley Ventures. The
company plans to use the investments it has received to hire a significant
number of professionals this year in engineering, product development, and
sales and marketing.
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Seclarity provides new technology for transparently enforcing security
policy
on each networked device within a dynamically changing business environment or
network topology. Seclarity's peer-to-peer user-based authentication and
encryption system separates security protection from operating system and
applications, protecting systems from vulnerabilities that affect network
traffic. With Seclarity, security becomes easily and centrally managed,
unaffected by internal users, and continuously at work throughout the entire
organization.
Unlike current network security solutions which are expensive, complex and
often an incomplete collection of hardware and software applied to fix a
problem, Seclarity's new and simplified approach delivers a proactive and
completely transparent security solution that is invisible to the end user.
Fundamentally, the Seclarity technology relieves organizations of the many
network security management issues that make existing security approaches
expensive, labor-intensive and prone to user interference that can compromise
protection.
Seclarity was founded by Michael Neuman, a former security expert at Los
Alamos National Labs and a co-founder of EnGarde Systems, and Diana Neuman,
also a co-founder of EnGarde. Adrian Vanzyl, the former CEO of Transtech and
SomethingNow, serves as Seclarity's CEO. Previously, Vanzyl was the CTO of
Sausage Software and LookSmart, and an executive at Link Exchange and
subsequently Microsoft. Michael Neuman, who developed the first
standards-based public key infrastructure (PKI) and the first free Transparent
Proxy architecture, serves as the company's chief technology officer. Diana
Neuman is Seclarity's vice president of development. She has developed more
than a dozen successful commercial security products.
"Seclarity is changing the network security model by creating a transparent
security architecture that is powerful, elegant and adaptable to rapid changes
in today's dynamic business environments," said Gregg Adkin, partner at Valley
Ventures. "Their solution offers real-time protection for edge devices on the
network's perimeter where the proliferation of mobile computing devices makes
it increasingly difficult to secure business-critical data. We like their
approach, and we are pleased to support Seclarity's continued product
development efforts as they shape how to better secure each user on every
network within an enterprise."
"The technology we designed creates a very simple, completely transparent,
and
highly effective solution to the complex and challenging matter of protecting
an organization's network," said Vanzyl. "Our products provide completely
invisible encryption, firewalling, network authentication, and access control.
Corporate IT does not have to re-train staff, they don't have to redesign
their systems, there are no significant technology acquisitions, and there is
no user interaction required. The system installs rapidly, updates
automatically, and ensures that all edge devices in the network are
secure."
"Our technology architecture and product have been in development for more
than three years," said Michael Neuman. "Before we shipped even a beta
version, we considered every obstacle to adoption and engineered simplicity as
well as robustness into the product. We also took the time to bring in the
right management team to introduce the product to market and build the right
channels to grow the company. Customers have told us that we're truly a leader
in delivering both comprehensive and transparent network security
technology."
Seclarity has several customers focused on financial services, health care
and
government security markets. Seclarity helps facilitate these industries'
specific needs for audit and regulatory compliance such as GLB and HIPAA, in
addition to the benefits they receive from Seclarity's security
protection.
Beyond complete transparency and powerful user-level authentication and
access
control, Seclarity provides administrators with one-click upgrades for all
secured nodes across an organization's enterprise network. While providing
mandatory enforcement of security policies for each user on the network,
Seclarity's technology also allows for creation of trusted collaborative
networks through peer-to-peer encryption and firewalling, and insulates users
from operating system and application security risks. The combination
represents one of the most convenient, cost-effective and timesaving security
practices available.
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