Security vendors also are working in tandem to solve specific problems for vertical industries. This week, Alogent, Certicom, Unisys and VeriSign announced a joint development effort that will deliver a solution allowing banks to capitalize on opportunities encouraged by The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act ("Check 21"). Financial institutions will be able to implement the solution as separate modules or as a complete end-to-end transformation strategy.
The solution comprises point-of-presentment capture through image-exchange software that pairs Unisys technology with Alogent's point-of-presentment branch deposit automation and remote deposit automation solutions. The software automates payment and deposit processing, helping to reduce costs and improve efficiency, while allowing the check to be imaged where it is presented.
Integrating security technology from Certicom, Unisys' check-processing hardware and image security software creates a unique digital signature for each check image created and attaches the mathematical signature immediately at the check transport system. VeriSign verifies the identity of each company using the Unisys system through its outsourced Business Authentication Service. No timetable for the solution was announced.
Next month, Reconnex will be announcing its electronic risk-management platform, an appliance-based internal network security platform that combines protocol-independent content analysis, content registration and forensic capabilities. The platform consists of two appliances working in tandem to analyze, identify and register known and unknown risks. Reconnex analyzes all information regardless of protocol while providing forensic, reporting and registration capabilities. The platform will combine real-time content monitoring, application monitoring, document scanning and network forensics into a single solution.
Finally, Kavado announced the beta version of Defiance TMS, an enterprise-class threat-management system that secures large-scale, distributed deployment of Web applications and Web services. The solution offers scalable intrusion-detection and prevention that detect threats, generates alerts and blocks internal and external attacks to corporate and customer data across the enterprise without impacting day-to-day business operations.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
