Live From RSA in San Francisco: Wednesday, April 9

By Alex Handy

April 9, 2008 —  After a raging night of parties, RSA attendees are looking a little tired today. Last night’s events were only the beginning of this week-long deep dive into the security world, and the late-night McAfee party was only the first of the big to-dos. But with everyone back at the show today, more products were updated and introduced.

Verizon kicked off this morning’s news by announcing new security services for its business customers. The massive telecommunications company announced that it would be getting into the data loss prevention market later this year when it offers new services in July that companies can use to protect their databases.

Verizon’s two managed security services will be available as either a software/hardware appliance that monitors internal databases or as a complete remote service that tracks data movement within an organization. Verizon hopes to become an outsourced data retention policy enforcement vendor with these new services.

Red Hat announced the availability of the beta of its new version of Red Hat Enterprise IPA. The software allows Red Hat users to centrally manage identity, policy and audit information. The final version of the software should arrive this summer.

Trustwave made waves of its own with two new products and an update announced at the show. Trustwave unveiled a new SSL certificate life-cycle manager, which can discover, analyze and manage the many secure socket layer certificates used in modern organizations. The company also unveiled a new intrusion prevention system that can maintain speeds of up to 2GB per second. A 10GB model is planned for later in the year.

Perennial government contractor Raytheon is entering the enterprise security space, announcing the creation of its new Information Security Solutions division at RSA. The new division is composed of the many disparate security products that the company had developed during its years building government products and systems. Raytheon hopes to put its considerable experience in technology and information management to use in this burgeoning market.

Kaspersky Lab, the little security company that could, is moving into the SaaS space with its new hosted security services. The company is rolling out service level agreements and service offerings that can help companies keep ahead of the ever rising tide of malware and viruses.

Sendmail Inc. introduced two new appliances for corporate e-mail systems. The first is a VMware-based virtual appliance that can be run on unused hardware. The company also announced its new Quantum Message Processor (QMP), which comes in the form of a blade server. The QMP is designed to churn mail and messages quickly.



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