RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., developer of monitoring, notification, and security solutions for System i, AIX, and Linux, announced today the official release of the newest addition to the StandGuard Security Suite, StandGuard Network Security 3.0. This new version of the company’s popular network security solution represents a major rewrite and utilizes an object-based design that is consistent with OS/400 object security. Building upon the OS/400 design, StandGuard Network Security 3.0 provides a supplemental layer of public and private authorities to resources on your System i server.

An object-based approach to security reduces the time and effort required to create and manage authorities, reduces configuration errors, and provides a more usable audit trail compared to inferior, transaction-based designs. As Bytware CEO Michael Grant points out:

“Transaction-based security is time-intensive and prone to error. A big problem with the transaction security model is that any slight change to a previously ‘memorized’ transaction will result in a mismatch between what has been memorized and what is occurring. This requires constant review and adjustment to keep your access authorities working.”

The object-based security design of StandGuard Network Security 3.0 solves these problems by looking at the transactions and breaking them into the objects that are being accessed. Variations in the transactions such as upper/lower case or small differences in the SQL statement do not matter. The objects will remain the same and no reviewing is necessary.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 is available now and works with i5/OS V5R3 and V5R4, and uses newer V5R3 exit point technology to implement true object-based security for SQL statements without parsing or memorizing every statement.

Additional features in StandGuard Network Security include: protection for all i5/OS exit points; support for public and private authorities; extensive reporting features with more that 16 different reports; automatic product updating; and a non-intrusive phased-in implementation.

Comprehensive information about StandGuard Network Security and free trials are available on Bytware’s website at http://www.bytware.com/products/ns/ or by calling 800.932.5557.

RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., today announced the release of the latest version of its network and exit point security solution, StandGuard Network Security 3.0. The new version is a major upgrade that once again revolutionizes iSeries security with a wealth of new and enhanced features, while maintaining the unique phased-in approach to security policy. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 expands previous exit point coverage to monitor and protect all exit points that can be used to access data or run commands, securing over 120 server functions. Users can create public and private authorities to the server, server functions, database objects, IFS objects, programs, and commands. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 supports supplemental group profiles and location group profiles.

Reporting has also been enhanced in this new release with 16 different reports to choose from, most providing many types of selection criteria.

Keeping security technology up-to-date also becomes easier with the introduction of automated PTF updates. This popular feature from Bytware’s StandGuard Anti-Virus and Messenger solutions has been added to StandGuard Network Security 3.0.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 helps organizations address one of the most critical security issues facing us today. Recent security studies show that financial losses due to computer system breaches have increased dramatically in the past several years, with nine out of ten large businesses and government agencies acknowledging system break-ins each year resulting in losses exceeding $200,000 per organization. Two categories—theft of proprietary information and financial fraud—are the most frequent and most damaging types of security failure. According to the studies, up to forty percent of the damage originates from the Internet, but surprisingly, about two-thirds of the attacks come from inside the firewall—by trusted insiders—operating within the corporation. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 provides state-of-the-art tools for guarding against this inside threat.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 will be available in Q2 2006. For more information about StandGuard Network Security, visit http://www.bytware.com/products/ns/