Two companies this week will introduce separate offerings designed to ease the management of security policies for remote computers. Both offerings are designed to make it easier for customers to change security parameters once and have them pushed automatically to remote machines, which previously would have required manual upgrades. Analysts say customers can anticipate seeing more of these types of products and services in the months ahead. If Carella wanted to add or delete rights of remote users in the past, he had to contact Pilot, which would assign a technician to make the change. There, all traffic is screened by Pilot's firewall and checked by intrusion-detection and other security software.
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Zone Labs of San Francisco is introducing a package dubbed Integrity, which consists of server-based management software and client security tools for remote PCs. Integrity server software runs on a centrally located Solaris, Windows or Linux server, and Integrity client software runs on Windows. Later this year, Zone will extend support to Macintosh and Windows CE clients. This software protects individual remote user machines from Internet-borne attacks, particularly those connected via permanent connections such as DSL and cable modems. They can buy a PC security package rather than a bunch of individual point products.