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Start-up ships security suite
By Tim Clark
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
May 26, 1998, 4 p.m. PT
URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22463,00.html
Security start-up Centrax today began shipping eNTrax Security Suite for
Windows NT, an intrusion detection and response offering to protect
corporate networks from both outside hackers and insiders seeking access to
corporate data.
The software, called eNTrax, integrates security auditing policies and
assessments plus detection and response into a single console that lets
system administrators manage computers across a network from one central
location. It is designed to reduce the resources required to manage
enterprise security.
"Host-based intrusion detection protects your company from insider
threats," said Paul Proctor, eNTrax chief technology officer. "It acts as a
video camera on each computer in the enterprise that alerts you to misuse
of each system or proprietary information by insiders."
But Centrax is moving into a market that has been hyperactive this year as
bigger network and security players buy up small intrusion detection or
network scanning firms. The latest came May 12, when Network Associates
bought Secure Networks Incorporated for its network scanning tool.
In March, Internet Security Systems, described by analysts as the market
leader for "adaptive network security," went public. Days later, Security
Dynamics Technologies acquired Intrusion Detection, a month after Cisco
Systems bought WheelGroup.
In October 1997, Trusted Information Systems bought Haystack Labs, but TIS
itself was snapped up in February by Network Associates.
Centrax debuted in March, when it introduced auditing software called
Centrax Audit Strategy Tool (CAST) to let administrators configure
networked computers to log key data as a way to tell if someone was trying
to break into the network.
Because eNTrax software resides on each protected server, it can monitor
unauthorized use of data on those machines for attacks that aren't
prevented by access controls or firewalls.
The software comes with ten predefined security policies for network
managers to adopt or adapt, then replicate them onto remote machines on the
network. It also analyzes machine configurations to check for
vulnerabilities and logs unauthorized efforts to access data. A January
Aberdeen Group report estimated the 1998 adaptive network security market
for software at $100 million, double 1997's spending. That market includes
tools for analyzing network weaknesses or "network scanning" and for
detecting attacks on networks or "intrusion detection."
Centrax expects a fall update to eNTrax to add network monitoring to check
for outsiders who may have broken into a network, probably licensed from
another vendor. Currently eNTrax offers only host-based systems.
Centrax will market its software via both a small in-house sales force and
resellers. Current pricing, designed for pilot testing or departmental use,
for one console running 10 servers and 100 workstations is $13,000.
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