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Sygate expands its Security product to Mac
Author: IT-Observer Staff
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 15:51 GMT

Sygate Technologies, a global leader of Network Access Control solutions, announced it has extended Sygate Secure Enterprise software to Macintosh computer. Sygate’s Secure Enterprise for Macintosh is the first centrally managed security solution available for Mac line.

The new software provides enterprises running Macintosh a centrally-managed firewall and intrusion protection system. The software was developed in conjuction with Sygate’s partner Intego. Sygate has been beta testing the new agent for several months with a variety of customers and recently began offering it to enterprise customers.

"Sygate provides the most robust suite of NAC protections for the PC-based enterprise, and with this product we are introducing the concept of 'Compliance on Contact(TM)' to the Mac world," said Eric Winsborrow, director of product management, Sygate.

"We are excited by the opportunity to include another important community of endpoints in our solution, protecting them from malicious access." Compliance on Contact is Sygate's term for the ability of its SSE software to ensure computers are configured correctly and free from viruses, worms and other malware before allowing them to connect to a data network.

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