Secret security weapon
April 21, 2006
Vendors turn to OPSWAT to better their products
There are dozens of brands of anti-virus, anti-spyware, desktop firewall and VPN products, and Benny Czarny has made it his business to know them all inside and out.
Vendors such as Cisco, F5 Networks, Symantec and Juniper Networks license the OPSWAT code that checks for more than 400 versions of security software from more than 35 vendors. They embed the code, a software development kit (SDK), into their network-access control products.
This has made OPSWAT (which informally stands for Omni-Platform Security with Access Technologies), a security vendor to security vendors, supporting methods of network-access control ranging from Microsoft's Network Access Protection to Cisco's Network Admission Control.
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/
There are dozens of brands of anti-virus, anti-spyware, desktop firewall and VPN products, and Benny Czarny has made it his business to know them all inside and out.
Vendors such as Cisco, F5 Networks, Symantec and Juniper Networks license the OPSWAT code that checks for more than 400 versions of security software from more than 35 vendors. They embed the code, a software development kit (SDK), into their network-access control products.
This has made OPSWAT (which informally stands for Omni-Platform Security with Access Technologies), a security vendor to security vendors, supporting methods of network-access control ranging from Microsoft's Network Access Protection to Cisco's Network Admission Control.
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/