AppGate Network Security joins Jericho Forum
June 14, 2006
Stockholm, Sweden
AppGate, winners of the 2005 Jericho Forum Challenge, become members of this international IT security consortium
AppGate Network Security, a leading provider of network security solutions, today announced it has joined the Jericho Forum, an international IT security consortium of IT customer and vendor organisations. The Forum has worldwide and cross-industry representation, including major multinational organizations, and governments. Members include Barclays, Boeing, BP, HSBC, ICI and Rolls Royce. In 2005, Tomas Olovsson and Jamie Bodley-Scott of AppGate were announced as winners of the first Jericho Forum Challenge.
“We are very pleased to have the winners of the Jericho Forum Challenge 2005 joining the Jericho Forum, and we look forward to AppGate’s close involvement as members”, said Ian Dobson, Director of the Jericho Forum.
The Jericho Forum’s mission is to act as a catalyst to accelerate the development of open-standards-based security solutions that will support secure business operations, collaboration and commerce, globally over open networks. Today’s corporate perimeters are full of holes, so information security solutions are needed that are effective in this increasingly de-perimeterized world.
“The membership of the Jericho Forum includes some of the world's most experienced security professionals and organizations and we are very excited to join such an esteemed group”, said Tomas Olovsson, CTO, AppGate Network Security. “Through our expertise and experience in this field, we hope to make a valuable contribution to the Jericho Forum, and our participation in this consortium will enable us to more closely address the needs of our enterprise customers and our partners.”
For more information please contact:
Göran Marby, CEO Appgate, +46 (0)730 66 77 20
About AppGate Network Security AB
In a world with fewer borders, the demand for network security changes from security at the perimeter, to security at the source. AppGate is the leader in this space, with a solution that protects applications, protects communication and secures end point devices. The AppGate solution supports all types of transmission, fixed, wireless and mobile and is easily integrated into any customer environment. AppGate has customers in 19 countries, many from market segments like defence, government and Fortune 500 companies
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About the Jericho Forum
The Jericho Forum is an international circle of IT customer and vendor organizations dedicated to the development of open standards to enable secure and boundaryless information flows across organizations. Members of the Jericho Forum recognize that over the next few years, as technology and business continue to align closer to an open, Internet-driven networked world, the current security mechanisms that protect business information will not scale to meet the increasing volumes of transactions and data of the future. A new approach is needed, to move from the traditional network perimeter down to the individual networked computers and devices – and ultimately to the level of the data being sent over the networks. This process has been described as ‘re-perimeterization’ followed by ultimate ‘de-perimeterization’ and Boundaryless Information Flow™.
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