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New product strengthens Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise
security solutions strategy
Paris, December 10, 2007 – Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE:
ALU) today announced the availability of the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 Web
Services Gateway (WSG), the industry’s first network appliance that allows
controlled access to sensitive information across multiple IT systems, by
implementing stateful information access policies, organization-wide and in
real-time. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is the only network-embedded solution
available today, which supports and secures automated business processes while
ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting sensitive corporate information from
misuse and ensuring its availability when and where it is needed. It enables
corporate-wide interoperability among business-critical internal information
systems and external partner networks, providing a corporate wide compliance
infrastructure reducing costs and risk.
“With the OmniAccess 8550 WSG, Alcatel-Lucent is taking a highly-integrated
approach to helping IT departments mitigate risks while managing costs,” said
Chris Christiansen, program vice president for IDC's Security Products and
Services group. “The market opportunity to provide security solutions that
enable companies to meet compliance concerns represents a significant vision
for Alcatel-Lucent in serving the enterprise.”
The OmniAccess 8550 WSG is ideal for industries with an immediate
business-critical need to protect end user privacy, such as in health care,
government, education, and finance. Prior to today’s announcement,
Alcatel-Lucent successfully had the product evaluated with a select group of
companies including HP, a knowledgeable player in the SOA market, and Advocate
Health Care, a leading U.S. integrated health care delivery network.
“The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 8550 WSG SOA Appliance has a strong
focus on security and compliance,” said Avrami Tzur, vice president, SOA,
Technology Solutions Group, HP. “We see a need in the market for a
product providing security policy enforcement such as information access
control, especially when coupled with HP's proactively governed SOA
infrastructure.”
“I have searched for a solution to secure our on-line processes and B2B
operations, but have not seen any product comparable to Alcatel-Lucent’s
OmniAccess 8550 WSG in its ability to ensure information privacy and
guaranteetraceability of user activity,” stated Gary Horn, director of
Enterprise Architecture and Network Security, Advocate Health Care, Oakbrook,
IL. “This is a problem seen by many health careproviders in the U.S. I
recognize the tremendous potential to streamline and secure our network
operations. A product like the OmniAccess 8550 web services gateway gives us
the ability to trace user activity and ensure information privacy, which are
business critical in today’s market,” Horn added.
Alcatel-Lucent is delivering security features that go beyond traditional
secure networking to meet heightened information privacy regulations, serve an
increasingly mobile workforce, and provide an open architecture to maximize
flexibility and choice. The new web services gateway is the latest
offering in a rapidly expanding portfolio of innovative security solutions from
Alcatel-Lucent that helps enterprises manage user access to corporate data,
applications and communication.
Earlier this year, Alcatel-Lucent introduced the OmniAccess Safeguard
solution and the award-winning OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian. The
OmniAccess Safeguard manages user access and restricts application use while on
the network, characterizes traffic patterns, identifies intrusions based on
pre-configured heuristics, and protects users and the network against known or
unknown attacks. The OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian is a revolutionary
laptop security and management system developed to secure, monitor, manage and
locate a mobile computer, anywhere, anytime, even when it’s shut off.
“Alcatel-Lucent is positioned for growth as an enterprise security solutions
provider with the OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway being the third
innovative security solution being introduced this year,” said Michel
Emelianoff, vice president of Enterprise Security Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent.
“The market is at an inflection point, the product addresses real enterprise
pain points, and the offering is unique in its ability to integrate context
based application and information security inside and outside the
network."
The OmniAccess 8550 WSG employs industry-leading session-based, stateful XML
message inspection technology to deliver consolidated audit trails and run-time
policy enforcement. Interoperability features include service mediation,
performance monitoring and load balancing; security features also include
single identity, altogether providing for a corporate-wide compliance
infrastructure protecting corporate data and identity privacy.
Alcatel-Lucent and OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway are trademarks of
Alcatel-Lucent. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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