iPolicy Goes Global with Security Manager

Computer Business Review, May 5, 2004

iPolicy Networks Inc, a supplier of packet inspection firewalls for the enterprise and managed security service provider markets, is to launch a management system intended to do away with fragmented multi-location, multi-product security policy enforcement.

Unlike products that are designed for device-level management, the new Unified Security Manager (USM) is said to apply a consistent set of policies across different business units or locations. iPolicy's USM will configure, manage and monitor a global network yet enforce and manage security policy at the local level on an individual site basis.
The release will complement the programmable ASIC-based intrusion prevention firewall sold by iPolicy that uses as an engine a Single Pass Inspection process which examines data packets only once, using the results simultaneously across all security applications.

The ipEnforcer range addresses the convergence of multiple network security services, and includes intrusion-detection and prevention, DDoS and attack mitigation, deep application inspection firewall, VPN, anti-virus, surveillance, and URL filtering into one purpose-built security system.
Under the hood of the USM, a Global Security Administrator provides rule aggregation across multiple security applications, the Local Security Supervisor (LSS) controls multiple ipEnforcer systems, and a Graphical Security Interface (GSI) enables multiple security administrators to co-manage the security applications, based upon their administration privileges.

At the beginning of the year iPolicy, which came about through the merger in 2000 of Duet Corporation and Tunnelnet, raised some $26m in a Series A round of funding to aid its expansion in the enterprise market. That round was co-led by WK Technology Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners, and Dali Hook Partners.

The new management system will be launched later this month at theNetworld + Interop show in Las Vegas.