SnapGear Announces New Security Technology

March 19, 2003 -- (FIND VPN) -- Internet security products and OEM solutions provider SnapGear Inc. (SnapGear.com) announced on Tuesday that it has unveiled a fully isolated stateful firewall PCI device, offering full on-board multi-VPN capabilities for secure access and communication.

SnapGear says it has transformed its popular SME security technology into a NIC PCI footprint, allowing enterprises to secure servers and even desktops with advanced security that operates independently of the host operating system.

The SnapGear PCI630 is a VPN Firewall PCI card that offloads all firewall and VPN processing from the host computer to the card, improving performance, security, remote management and simplified installation. According to SnapGear, the device's key advantage is that it is independently manageable, which gives administrators the ability to mitigate intrusion by isolating affected systems.

"As security threats continue to increase in frequency and sophistication security regimes must evolve rapidly just to stay in the race," says SnapGear CEO Rick Stevenson. "The PCI630 is the first in a range of new products from SnapGear that will provide the ability to incorporate security at previously unprotected interfaces inside enterprise and SME networks, enhancing the ability to construct multilayered security architectures. The use of an autonomous security processor based on a hardened embedded Linux operating system and non-x86 CPU is particularly beneficial for protecting Wintel servers."