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To: Probart who wrote (63896)	3/24/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: ComradeBrehznev	Respond to of 119973

PILT - news: ALAMEDA, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Pilot Network Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: PILT), the Security Utility(TM) pioneer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) and Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) today announced a joint marketing and development alliance that delivers a new solution enabling corporations to establish secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)/extranet connections via their Wide-Area Networks (WANs). Because many of today's corporations with Internet connections are reluctant to open up their corporate networks via the Internet due to security concerns, Cisco, Sun and Pilot have agreed to join forces to provide comprehensive security solutions to resolve these business-critical issues. Under the alliance, Sun, Cisco and Pilot have combined their world-class technology, services and experience to enable enterprises to connect their corporate legacy WANs to customer and partner extranets through highly secure Internet VPNs. One of the first products of this collaboration is Pilot Corporate Partner Networking(TM) (Pilot CPN). Available today, Pilot CPN is a secure VPN/extranet service that connects directly to a company's WAN and to its mobile telecommuters, providing the built-in protection of Pilot's revolutionary Security Utility(TM) service. By using the Pilot CPN service, corporations in the United States and Europe are able to connect to one of Pilot's seven ATM-linked Network Security Centers, with dynamic security architectures plus 24x7 monitoring and maintenance. "Security must extend across an entire network to be effective," said Larry Lang, Cisco vice president of service provider marketing. "This relationship between Pilot, Sun and Cisco offers enterprise customers a Wide-Area Networking service that implements corporate security policies end-to-end in support of e-commerce and other critical business initiatives. Also, because the Pilot CPN service is a qualified Cisco Powered Network(TM) service, corporations can have confidence in its security, reliability, and interoperability with their existing networking equipment." "This alliance is important because it allows corporations to build on current network infrastructures while also enabling rapid implementation of secure extranets," said Chris Hurst, vice president of worldwide telecommunications and cable industries for Sun Microsystems. "Pilot CPN is a truly innovative service in that it ushers in the next major trend that will benefit businesses everywhere: subscribing to services that provide corporate IT functions. By putting security management in the hands of Pilot, Sun and Cisco, IT enterprises are free to focus their staffing, time and fiscal resources where it really counts -- their core business."