Israeli companies First Access, XaCCT, RADLAN and RADGUARD all won awards in BYTE magazine’s Best of Show competition at CeBIT ’98. First Access won the Best Security Product category for its First Access Enterprise. First Access is a new start-up whose first product enables computers to give access to applications only to authorized users and only while they are in the immediate vicinity of the computer itself. Users wear a smart-card ID tag which communicates with the computer by a radio signal. If the user moves away from the computer beyond a couple of meters, the computer automatically blocks access to confidential material. The system can be configured to allow different users, each with their own tag, to have different levels of access. RadGuard was a finalist in the Best Security Product Category for its cIPro-VPN. RadGuard is part of the RAD group. Its hardware-based virtual private network system provides high performance encryption and authentication as well supporting 100Mbps multi-network encryption. XaCCT Technologies was a finalist in the Best Communications Software category, for version 3.0 of its eponymous software. XaCCT is a new start-up that has created an accounting, reporting and auditing system for TCP/IP networks. The system enables ISPs to develop billing systems for clients according to a whole range of parameters above and beyond time online. Variables such as bandwidth used can be factored in so that users will pay for the type of service and network resources actually provided rather than a flat fee. In this way, ISPs will be able to charge different rates for applications that are bandwidth intensive. Finally Radlan Ltd, was a finalist in the Best Communications Hardware category for its Apollo Pro. Also part of the RAD group, Radlan developed Apollo Pro to enable the integration of up to 30 existing routers in a distributed router-switch network architecture that combines the speed, latency, and ease-of-use of switching with the scalability and flexibility of routing.
