Network Security and Technology Solutions
There is a community of individuals and organizations in today's
environment, growing in size and sophistication, determined to
disrupt critical communication and control networks. Engedi's
patent pending technologies meet the need to protect critical
network systems by providing the solutions that set the standard
for managing and securing both the remotely located devices in a
network and the network accessible data over what would
otherwise be less secure or insecure networks.
Remotely located network devices such as routers and switches
must be readily and cost-effectively accessible by network
administrators. The data in the network, both the management
traffic and the network data, must be safe and secure from
attacks both external and internal to the network. Networks are
critical infrastructure that are growing in size and use within
businesses and the economy. We are all becoming more dependent
upon these networks to support our day to day activities and for
the productivity of our economy. The effects of outages can be
catastrophic. Engedi Technologies delivers patent pending
technologies that strengthen the security of communication
networks, the availability of those networks, and also reduce
the costs of operating those networks.
The Engedi Technology Solutions
An effective, scalable, and affordable solution to the remote
management need must fully address the requirements for securely
managing remotely located network devices. All too often network
administrators are stuck with an incomplete, poorly integrated
solution that causes almost as many problems as it solves. Many
network administrators have implemented methods for remote
management that have compromised on security to meet their need
for access to the remotely located devices in the network. Those
compromises are no longer necessary. Using the Engedi SRM™
technology, network administrators can meet their remote
management need without compromising on security.
The Engedi SRM™ solution is purpose built to provide a unique,
patent pending technology that meets all of the requirements for
the simple, secure management of remotely located devices, such
as routers and switches, in a large distributed network.
When security of the network is a must, and when cost-effective,
timely network management is important, the SRM™ technology
meets the need.
Network security and high availability require protection of
network assets such as the network infrastructure devices and
equipment, or data sources available through the network .
Engedi's Key2 Technology (K2t)™ is designed to protect network
assets from the compromised or inexperienced insider. Key2
Technology™ permits implementation of advanced security policy
where select network devices, management activity or data can
only be accessed or undertaken with the concurrence of a second
authorized, authenticated network administrator permissioning
the access or action before it takes place. This multi-party
authorization control through the use of Key2 Technology™
protects the network and related information assets from the
malicious insider.
Frequently Asked Questions
What problems exist that are solved by your solutions?
The infrastructure of telecommunications networks is expensive
to operate and maintain. There are security weaknesses that make
it possible for hackers or malicious insiders to compromise data
flowing through the network or data accessible by the network,
or to damage the network itself. Network administrators need
solutions that make it easier and less expensive to operate the
network, and they need improved security of the network. Engedi
Technologies provides two solutions, the Engedi Secure Remote
Management appliance(SRMa)™ and Engedi Key2 Technology
(K2t)™, to meet these needs.
What solutions does Engedi
have to solve these problem?
We provide technology solutions to address the security needs
for operating networks. One of our solutions, called Secure
Remote Management (SRM)™, lets network administrators securely
manage the remotely located equipment in their networks. We have
another technology, called Key2 technology (K2t)™, to protect
networks from the compromised or inexperienced network insider.
Why is the SRMa™ needed in networks today?
Today many networks either have insecure remote access
capability and thus expose the network to attack from the
outside hacker or malicious insider, or the networks have no
remote access capability and the network managers incur the time
delay and expense of having to go to the remote sites. In a
small percentage of networks there is full network redundancy,
but this expensive solution often still leaves the management
traffic vulnerable to internal attack. Full network redundancy
is a solution that is prohibitively expensive, and thus
impractical, for most networks. The Engedi SRMa™ is simply the
more secure and cost efficient alternative. The SRMa™ delivers
increased security for network management by the use of
encryption of the management traffic, both over the in-band and
out-of-band paths, and provides other powerful management
features delivering quick access for diagnostics, maintenance,
and problem determinations. Quick, highly secure, and
inexpensive access to create high availability of the network is
what our product, the SRMa™, delivers. It is technology that
fills a spot in the network architecture that is currently not
filled in most networks. When security of the network is a must,
and cost effective network management is important, the solution
is the Engedi SRMa™.
Summary
Our work world is moving increasingly toward a distributed
workforce, tied together by a distributed network. The
distributed network used by the workforce needs to be reliable
and available to ensure employees are productive and able to
communicate. The Engedi SRMa meets the need for the
network administrators to conveniently, quickly and securely
maintain and operate that distributed network. Small offices or
home offices connected to the company network (also known as the
enterprise network) won't have network engineers on-site to fix
equipment problems. But having the Engedi SRMa™ on-site makes it
possible for network administrators and engineers to
conveniently, quickly and securely access that network equipment
located in that small office or home office to maintain the
connections to the corporate network. No need to dispatch the
network engineer to the remotely located small office, home
office, or equipment site for maintenance or problem resolution
when the SRMa™ product is in use. Our SRMa™ provides the
convenient, quick, and less expensive alternative needed to keep
the distributed workforce connected together on a reliable and
available network.
The work world is moving in the direction of workers working
from home offices and various remote sites. That distributed
workforce communicates over a distributed network. Our SRMa™
solution makes it possible to keep that distributed network
available and reliable in a more convenient and less costly to
operate way. And the SRMa™ makes that network more secure in the
process while less expensive to operate. The Engedi Key2
Technology™ protects the network from the inexperienced or
malicious insider. Over half of successful network attacks come
from the inside. Key2 Technology protects the network or network
available data from inappropriate action by an insider.
Engedi Technologies has
great technology with the SRM™ and K2t™ solutions delivering
much needed system security for the evolving distributed
workforce more dependant each day on the availability and
reliability of their growing distributed networks.
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Article date: March 1, 2004
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About the author:
Dr. Julie Palmore is the CEO and President of Engedi Technologies, Inc. She
is a proven business entrepreneur having owned and managed
successful businesses over the years. Dr. Palmore leads Engedi
Technologies to create products and provide services for secure
and robust telecommunication networks.