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Intruders Beware!
The first hot market our experts described was intrusion detection, which some
analysts preferred to include in the field of adaptive network security. But, no
matter what you call it, the field's going to get big. “Intrusion detection is hot
and is going to remain hot,” says Ted Julian, an analyst with the market
research firm, Forrester Research. “And the reason is that we have plenty of
room for growth there.”
Very similar words come from Steven Hunt, director of security an alysis at the
Giga Information Group. “Dozens of intrusion detection-style products are on
the market. The race is on to see whose product can effectively detect events
and trigger on-the-fly security policy changes to firewalls, routers, servers and
applications. ISS is leading the pack with only modest functionality, and looking
over its shoulder at a bunch of hungry competitors.”
And how should we be watching that space? Julian notes Internet S ecurity
Systems (ISS) and AXENT. Hunt stresses ISS as well. Other players in the
field drawing a lot of attention include Internet Tools Inc., Tripwire Security and
the former Intrusion Detection Inc., now a part of Security Dynamics. Michael
Zoboray, vice-president and research director at the Gartner Group, meanwhile,
makes the observation that some of the traditional players in the security
industry, like the firewall vendors, are also moving into the space. He cites in
particular Hewlett Packard, “which is getting pretty savvy about this kind of
security.”
Closely associated with intrusion detection, meanwhile, is user auth entication.
Here, two specific areas seem to be in booming. Biometrics is clearly going to
be a winner. “Biometrics technologies are going to be pretty exciting,” notes
Gartner's Zoboray. “It's a no-brainer. It's not like the smart cards,” where
users have to remember to carry a hardware ID token. “Instead, you just put
down your thumb.”
Who's worth watching here? A number of companies are mentione d by
insiders. They include face-recogniser Miros Technology; finger-printer readers
Who? Vision, Veridicom Inc., Unisys Corp., Identix Inc., Printrack International,
NEC Technologies, Mytec Technologies, SAC Technologies and
Thomson-CSF; voice-recognition systems vendors VeriVoice Inc. and Veritel
Corp.; hand-geometry reader maker Recognition Systems Inc.; and iris scanner
vendor IriScan.
In addition to biometrics, the other area where user authentication is hot is in the
area of hardware tokens, dongles, and so on. Companies here drawing attention
are smart card-based system vendors like CRYPTOCard and contactless
authentication system vendors, like First Access Corp.
PKI Plunges On
Next is public key infrastructure (PKI). “Expect PKI standards to remain
confusing and untested through 1999,” warns Giga's Hunt. “But in a few years,
everyone will have one, complemented by biometric authentication devices
(hand-geometry or retinal scans).”
Which means that the companies to watch include a number of new and
existing PKI vendors including such as Baltimore Technologies, Entrust
Technologies, KyberPass, RPK Security, VeriSign and Zergo.
Beyond PKI, there are a number of other fields, generally summed up as
miscellaneous, that the experts have good feelings for example, Giga's Hunt is
fond of single sign-on (SSO), like the systems from PassGo. “Bridging the gap
between a dozen authentication methods (including x.509v3 certificates) and a
dozen (or more) new and legacy applications is the task of the SSO vendors,”
he notes. “Solutions are closer and better than ever. You will see some big SSO
players dropping out and opening the field to a small handful of leaders.”
He is also fond of secure messaging, and thinks highly of such comp anies as
Worldtalk Corp. “Their WorldSecure email server will see brisk sales in 1999
and beyond as corporations realise a need for secure email coupled with
comprehensive security policies,” he notes.
And, finally, there are a variety of security policy management too ls, like those
from BindView, which are coming on strong.
They Might Be Giants
Clearly the biggest news, the hottest markets, and the most visible companies to
watch are the emerging giants of computer security. “We are seeing
consolidation in the markets,” notes Forrester's Julian. “Particularly as larger
companies move into the space.”
This means that the movers and shakers of the next couple of year s may be the
larger companies, offering ever more complete frameworks and suites,
combining management, communication and security into single packages.
Julian, therefore, says keep an eye on “the networking gear vendor s, like Cisco,
Bay and Nortel” Gartner's Zoboray throws in Hewlett-Packard. Giga's Hunt
adds Platinum Technologies and Network Associates. And of course, there's
Symantec, Computer Associates, Bull Information, Security Dynamics and
Unisys.
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