INKRA Networks Partners with eIQnetworks’ for FirewallAnalyzer

September 21, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Inkra Networks (www.inkra.com), the leading provider of virtualized networking and security infrastructure, and eIQnetworks™, Inc., a leading provider of award-winning security, applications, and systems analytics solutions, today announced a partnership in which eIQnetworks (www.eIQnetworks.com) will provide enhanced security and bandwidth analysis, monitoring, and reporting capabilities for Inkra's Virtual Service Switches (VSSs).

"Virtualizing the security infrastructure drastically reduces the number of physical devices, and thus the complexity, of achieving true defense-in-depth," said Dave Roberts, co-founder and CTO of Inkra Networks.

FirewallAnalyzer Enterprise is the only vendor-neutral, centralized security event management solution to deliver real-time auditing and investigative analysis of virtualized network security devices.

"There is a trend toward defense-in-depth security strategies, and virtualization technology is enabling enterprises to cost-effectively adopt a comprehensive, integrated approach to security," said Vijay Basani, CEO of eIQnetworks. "eIQnetworks is the only solution on the market today that can provide detailed analysis of separate virtualized ‘racks' of network services, making our partnership with Inkra a natural fit."

Inkra's virtualization technology enables IT managers to deploy multiple virtualized instances of firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention (IDP), SSL accelerators, and load balancing from a single device, thus replacing tens to hundreds of individual appliances and reducing capital expense by an order of magnitude.

Inkra's Center Point management suite allows IT managers to provision, deploy, and manage all services from one console, significantly reducing the operational expenses associated with a large network security rollout. eIQnetworks' analysis solutions will supplement Inkra's Security Anomaly Index (SAI), which will continue to serve as the first-alert mechanism for network attacks.

Inkra Networks is the leading provider of virtualized network and security infrastructure. Inkra's Virtual Service Switch integrates multiple network and security functions - including firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection and prevention, SSL accelerators, and load balancers - onto a single, centrally managed platform that delivers the functionality of tens to hundreds of legacy appliances. Inkra's solutions offer radical improvements in the cost and manageability of data center infrastructures, and are commercially deployed by some of the world's leading service provider, government, and enterprise organizations.

Founded in 2001, eIQnetworks is a leading provider of award winning security and systems analytics solutions. eIQnetworks products collect, normalize, correlate, analyze, monitor, alert and report on activity across Windows, UNIX and Linux systems, firewalls, IDS / IPS devices, routers, proxy servers, web security appliances, and mail, web, caching and anti-virus servers to allow IT professionals to maximize infrastructure resource utilization, improve systems uptime and improve network security against attacks, viruses and network abuses.