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January 12, 1998
Remote And Secure
Network Associates expands Sniffer line
Expert Sniffer 5.5 and DSS Server 4.5 both will let customers analyze traffic using Cisco IOS, Microsoft Windows NT, IBM client-server, IPv6, and other protocols. Both will offer enhanced analysis of HTTP traffic.
The highlight, however, will be added security features in DSS Server. "DSS lets you go in and look at network traffic remotely," says Richard Funnell, director of marketing at Network Associates, in Santa Clara, Calif. "This type of access makes people nervous." DSS Server 4.5 offers a secure remote-access-management system with user authentication, three-level access authorizations, and an audit trail
of access.
The authorization levels will help users solve problems more quickly, Funnell says. For instance, administrators can provide limited access to inexperienced staffers who had no access before. Problems they can't solve could then be fed up to a more-experienced help desk.
Analysts say the security features were expected. "People are becoming more aware of security," says Greg Howard, an analyst at Infonetics Research Inc., a Santa Clara consulting firm.
The new versions will be available next month. Pricing hasn't been determined.
etwork Associates Inc., the company formed from the December merger of Network General and McAfee Associates, will unveil new versions of two fault- and performance-management products: the Expert Sniffer network analyzer and the Distributed Sniffer System.
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