Somewhere Over is Rainbow's eSecurity NetSwift iGate Security Appliance

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(05/11/02, 07:04:21 PM EDT)

Rainbow eSecurity NetSwift iGate Web Security appliance provides organizations with a single solution for rapid deployment of secure access to Web-enabled data and applications. The NetSwift iGate provides end-user authentication and SSL acceleration to provide customers with a complete solution for secure Web access from the client's browser to a single server and multiple back end servers.

Rainbow's acceleration and security appliance on the server side, the NetSwift iGate solution provides complete encryption of all network traffic between itself and the browser using industry-standard SSL security already built into the user's browser. This ensures complete security and privacy of the Web site content but also eliminates the need to pay the ongoing costs of installation and management of VPN client software on an end user's computer. Additionally, the NetSwift iGate's central management and SSL acceleration reduces the cost and complexity of manually installing SSL on Web servers while reducing the total cost of ownership by eliminating the need to purchase SSL certificates for each physical Web server.

On the client side, the NetSwift iGate solution uses Rainbow's iKey USB token to provide powerful two-factor authentication of users for business-critical Web-enabled applications. The iKey effectively eliminates the inherent weakness in username/password security that typically takes up the majority of any organization's help desk services.

The NetSwift iGate is ideal for companies using intranets and extranets for employees, front office solutions such as sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM), as well as financial and industry specific applications. The NetSwift iGate can be deployed almost instantly and requires no systems integration. It can scale to thousands of users and provides centralized user-management and fine-grained access control to Web-enabled applications by authenticated users.

Typical applications include:- Tech services sites - Content subscription sites - Secure remote access - Intranets

The NetSwift iGate solution is easily installed into an existing network environment without adding more hardware or software to existing Web applications. This reduces the cost of deployment by eliminating the need to buy more servers. The NetSwift iGate appliance can be configured via serial connection, SSH connection or even a Web-based GUI. Managing users and the access-control list is done remotely using Rainbow's Java-based Access Control Manager application that allows customers to import existing users and groups from Windows Domain Controllers.

The NetSwift iGate will ship next month and can be ordered now, directly from Rainbow and its worldwide sales channels.