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American Express deploysappliance for secure filetransferBrian McKenna

Tumbleweed CEO Jeff Smith

has said that American

Express is among a group of

customers using its new secure file

transfer appliance.

The product is designed, says

the $42m turnover company, to

provide a turnkey, high-

performance means of exchanging

large or sensitive files over the

internet. Its SecureTransport

software provides multi-protocol

file transfer service based on open

standards, including guaranteed

delivery, DMZ streaming, and

automation to integrate with back

end systems. This same

technology is now available in a

Linux-based product, the

Tumbleweed 'SecureTransport

Appliance'.

"American Express is now

exchanging more and more

information with the AS2

standard — an authentication and

encryption standard for the

messaging of files across a public

network. Wall Mart uses the

standard — which is why it is a

standard!" said Smith.

American Express partners

Pepsi and Microsoft are using the

AS2 standard to interact with it,

he said. "We are now seeing

financial services institutions

who've been using file transfer for

their own applications, such as

cash management, starting to use

the products to interface with

retailers or manufacturing firms.

"American Express found the

appliance implementation easier

to deploy. They were also

attracted to our multi-tiered

security architecture, with

appliances at the perimeter and

software internally".

The appliance shipped in early

October and is also in production

at MassMutual.

Smith confirmed the price for

the American Express deployment

to be in the region of a few

million dollars.

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traffic, the Attack Mitigator

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Infosecurity Moscow takes off

Infosecurity Moscow launched

in September, with 2300

visitors and 50 exhibitors. The

show is one of the first focused

B2B events to be held in Russia

and the CIS.

Vladimir Larin, Head of the

Russian Representative office for

Symantec said: "the show is

another clear sign of the

significant growth of the

infosecurity market in Russia".

The show featured a seminar

programme, with 72 talks. The

conference was co-organised by

Informzashita Training Centre

(www.itsecurity.ru), an education

provider for the infosecurity

market.

"Infosecurity 2004 Moscow was

unique since it was the first

focused show in Russia where

information security professionals

had an opportunity to learn about

new achievements in the field, see

state-of-art technologies, as well

as hear the opinions of leading

experts in the field", said Zoya

Popova, Director of

Informzaschita Security Training

Centre.

Over 80% of exhibitors have

already confirmed their intention

to participate in the next show in

2005.

"Building a secure information

system is now a vital part of the

IT department function.

Infosecurity Moscow was a very

important event for those

responsible for solving this

particular issue in Russia" said

Ilya Trifalenkov, Director of

Information Security Centre, Jet

InfoSystems.

Tim Porter, Reed's director of

technology show development

(worldwide) said: "We are

delighted with the success of the

first edition of Infosecurity in

Russia, and we are already

working with Restec to plan a

number of further developments

for the next few years, including

the launch of Storage Expo,

another of Reed Exhibitions B2B

IT shows in 2005".

Infosecurity Moscow 2005 will

take place from September 7-9,

2005 in Gostini Dvor.

Networking in Moscow