In addition to traditional firewall technology, users are starting to embrace policy and access control products that are designed to bolster security inside the firewall while maximizing the ability of their business to deal with partners and customers over the Internet.
Firewalls can be the gatekeepers.
But there's lots of gates these days. More to the point, users are recognizing the need to make security part of regular business processes. That can't be the case anymore. It has to be a part of everything. To help enable that, Aventail will unveil this week Extranet Center 3.1, a new version of the Seattle company's extranet management software.