The Hewlett-Packard Co has added Axent Technologies Inc’s Raptor and Aventail Corp’s VPN to its Praesidium web security product family. Existing members of the family are Virtual Vault and HP’s Authorization Server. We’re bringing them all under one umbrella, explained Roberto Medrano, general manager of HP’S internet Security Operation. At HP, Praesidium means security. Under the agreement with Axent, HP becomes the primary source for the HP-UX version of Raptor. The company will also offer Raptor on Solaris and NT. Raptor has been modified to work alongside Virtual Vault, which organizations can use to offer a secure web front end to applications like SAP or the Apache web server. By using both products, companies should be enable third-party access to their applications while maintaining firewall protection for the rest of their information assets. Raptor will be available from HP beginning December 1, priced from $2,500. For another $7,995, HP’s customers can add the Aventail VPN to their security arsenal. This product uses secure sockets layers (SSL) and the increasingly popular Socks v5 protocol (CI No 3,496) to make communications between enterprise networks and third-party users even more secure. Our intent is that we are protecting both people and factual information, Medrano said. In the past we only had the ability to protect information.
