The latest release of its dynaTRUST policy provisioning engine takes in Malware Detection programs that run a quick scan on a remote user’s PC to check for Trojan horses, worms and eavesdropping threats before the user is authenticated and granted network access.
End-point security is looming as the next big issue in the SSL VPN marketplace. Sector heavyweight Cisco Systems Inc is already working with several anti-virus vendors to introduce a product that would check to make sure that access devices are free from infection. And last week the company bought Twingo Systems Inc for technology known as Virtual Secure Desktop that is intended to bring the same quality of end-point security available with IPSec VPNs to SSL VPN deployments.
Netilla rival Whale Communications Ltd has a system in the form of an ActiveX applet that downloads when a user logs in and cleans up all traces of their session, such as the URL history and data cached by the browser, when they log off.
Netilla’s dynaTRUST upgrade adds similar features alongside the core scan technology which will store a user’s session activity in a single encrypted file that is erased once the session ends to prevent so-called digital leakage and protect user privacy.
The company’s NSP appliance allows browser-based remote access to thousands of centralized client/server legacy applications, as well as intranet web portals and web-based applications. The product is claimed to be strong in its policy-enforcement features that ensure a specified security policy is enforced on any remote access data stream to and from wired or wireless clients.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
