Sun Rises to Challenge of Net Security
Sun has created a network security products group (NSPG) in an attempt to bolster its position in the internet/intranet market.
The unit will reside within the manufacturer?s Sunsoft software division, which will see some 25 per cent of this year?s marketing budget spent on promoting its product set. Guy Martin, Northern European marketing manager for the NSPG, said: ?Security is one of the key areas of focus for our organisation and we intend to provide end-to-end security solutions for the enterprise. It?s core to our strategy for bringing Webtone [network services] to the desktop, that is making the internet as reliable and easy to use as a telephone. To do that you need security.?
NSPG has a worldwide team of several hundred looking after R&D and marketing for Sun?s Solstice product set, an umbrella term for its network management products. Also included are its encryption offerings and perimeter defence products such as firewalls.
Sun is positioning its product line at the internet, intranet and extranet market and is attempting to be seen as a legitimate cross-platform supplier. To coincide with the creation of NSPG it has added three more offerings to the family. Sun Screen EFS and SPF are firewalls, which are due to ship in July, costing from $1,500 for 25 users to $15,000 for an umlimited number.
Solstice Security Manager enables users to undertake a single, secure sign-on from heterogeneous clients, servers and workstations and provides authentication as well as integrity checking.