Israeli network security expert Memco Software Ltd ships the Windows NT version of its popular SeOS security software this week, enabling administrators to control who can go where on a corporate network. It says it shouldn’t have to do much more work to support NT 5.0, whenever that arrives, as it’s finished up the kernel dickering. But it has got a piece of news which may horrify but probably won’t surprise corporates; that the much- touted Active Directory-based NT 5.0 security won’t work across a network until all instances of NT 4.x have been upgraded or taken off-line. Indeed Memco says NT 4.x’s domains-style security makes it difficult for anyone to gain distributed access to a network but that NT 5.0’s security management could potentially make gaining that level of access easier rather than more difficult. SeOS, to date a Unix-only program, effectively hardens the underlying operating system making it difficult for anyone to gain privileged user rights. Memco will follow the NT port of its flagship software with an NT version of its Proxima single-sign tools suite in around six months’ time which provides automated user login with single sign-on to all authorized applications and systems running atop SeOS. It already supports NT agents. The NT SeOS links to the Unix version, enabling administrators to police heterogeneous NT-Unix networks from one single console. Memco has EDS Corp and Platinum Technology Inc reselling both versions of SeOS; it’s hoping Tivoli Systems will carry SeOS NT in addition to the Unix work. SeOS NT is priced at 20% less than the Unix list price of $5,000 per server. Memco is expecting 1997 revenue to come in around $30.2m, or double 1996’s $15m. Memco doesn’t expect NT products to account for 50% of software sales anytime soon and in any case hopes to trade heavily on its cross-platform credentials.
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