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OT: Software Expert to Speak on Endpoint Integrity
Standards at Open Group Conference


Endpoint Integrity Vital to Enterprise Security, but Vendor-specific interfaces Have Hampered Deployment; Expert will Discuss the Need for Standards at the Open Group Conference January 26, 2005

....... will describe the work of the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted
Network Connect (TNC) Subgroup, which is developing open endpoint integrity
standards. The TNC standards will enable customers to choose best-of-breed
products and connect them. Later versions of the TNC standards will employ
the Trusted Platform Module (defined by the Trusted Computing Group)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Endpoint integrity solutions --
which protect the network by ensuring that a wired or wireless computer is
compliant with enterprise security policies before it joins the network, and
periodically thereafter -- are fast becoming essential to enterprise network
security. By providing increased protection against viruses, worms, and other
constantly-evolving threats, these solutions significantly minimize the risks
to network and data associated with "malware," and increase the security of a
network. However, compelling as these solutions are, deployment has to date
been limited, mostly because today's solutions implement vendor-specific
interfaces which result in incompatibilities and reduced coverage.
Development of endpoint integrity standards would eliminate these
incompatibilities and permit widespread deployment of these security-enhancing
solutions.
Steve Hanna, senior engineer for leading network access security solutions
provider Funk Software, will speak to the Open Group's Boundaryless
Information Flow Conference about the need to establish endpoint integrity
standards, and will describe the work of the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted
Network Connect (TNC) Subgroup, which is developing open endpoint integrity
standards. The TNC standards will enable customers to choose best-of-breed
products and connect them. Later versions of the TNC standards will employ
the Trusted Platform Module (defined by the Trusted Computing Group) to
provide hardware protection against hackers.

WHO: Steve Hanna, Senior Engineer, Funk Software
WHAT: "Endpoint Integrity Standards Will Enable Interoperation"
WHEN: January 26, 2005, 11:45 a.m.
WHERE: Open Group's Boundaryless Information Flow Conference (Hyatt at
Fisherman's Wharf, 555 North Point Street, San Francisco, CA)

Mr. Hanna is active in many networking and security standards groups such
as IETF and OASIS. He is the author of several IETF RFCs and published papers
and an inventor or co-inventor on 21 issued U.S. patents. Mr. Hanna holds an
A.B. in Computer Science from Harvard University.
Funk Software is a leading provider of network access security solutions
for networks of any size, from enterprise to operator, wired or wireless. The
company's family of RADIUS/AAA and WLAN security products allow an
organization to enforce a uniform security policy across all network access
methods, including WLAN, remote/VPN, dial, and identity-based (wired 802.1X) -
with the performance and reliability to handle any traffic load, and with full
support for any network infrastructure.
If you would like to speak with Steve Hanna about issues relating to
endpoint integrity, please contact Michael Schultz at Schwartz Communications,
[phone] ([e-mail]).
Funk Software, Inc., 222 Third Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, (617) 497-
6339, http://www.funk.com