First will be the addition of features to the Neoteris Access Series and Meeting Series product lines that will enable web-based single sign-on, and improve password management through tighter integration with various authentication stores and servers.
The Access Series appliance secures SSL VPN access to differentiated groups of users including employees and corporate partners.
Neoteris Meeting Series is designed to secure access of any real-time collaboration process across the enterprise, be it a confidential presentation or a virtual sales and marketing meeting. The product manages policies about who should have access to meetings and logs an audit trail of who was online at various times during a session.
Neoteris claims its use of patent-pending application-aware content intermediation technology helps bridge traditional access management and security policy enforcement capabilities with content-aware access. Both systems are built around the core IVE platform.
New feature additions to Version 3.3 of IVE automatically clean the client-side cache of any sensitive information. Once a session is completed any data downloaded by a remote user can be wiped if necessary, while all HTML can be presented in a non-cacheable format so no trace of the user’s web-session is left behind after session timeout.
Market research has counted more than 25 vendors producing SSL VPN appliances, and estimates Neoteris has taken a 36% market share during the first half of 2003.
Neoteris competes with Aventail Corp and a long list of smaller suppliers that includes uRoam, Aspelle, Netilla Networks, SafeWeb, and Whale Communications. The privately owned Sunnyvale, California-based company claims to be on a $25-30 million run-rate for 2003, with $25 million held in cash.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
