MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- InfoExpress, the leader in network access control solutions, today announced its flagship CyberGatekeeper family of products is being used by Tripos, Inc. , a leading provider of drug discovery chemistry and informatics products and services, to ensure the safety of endpoint connections to the enterprise network by the company’s workforce. Tripos combined InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper endpoint policy enforcement with CyberArmor enterprise-level personal firewall to provide a solution with the breadth, quality and flexibility required to handle the firm’s growing and changing security requirements.
Like many businesses, Tripos embraced mobile computing years ago so employees could access the network from remote offices, customer sites, hotels, homes and other locations. The challenge was to incorporate security technologies to make sure remote access connections were safe. The Tripos team determined that they needed to ensure that mobile user machines were infection-free and met baseline security policy requirements, including a check to see that security methods put in place had not been altered or disabled by the end user, before being allowed access to the enterprise network.
“The InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper and CyberArmor solutions met our enterprise security requirements so closely, it’s almost as if InfoExpress had created them specifically for our needs,” said Jerry Wintrode, Sr., the network architect at Tripos. “While other companies were hit with worms that shut down e-mail servers, we’ve been able to anticipate attacks and stop them in advance. The solutions work seamlessly within our Cisco environment.”
According to Wintrode, CyberGatekeeper has lowered Tripos’ corporate help desk costs since it automatically updates and remediates the endpoint configurations thus lowering problems on the host devices. In addition, it provides complete endpoint configuration visibility which has increased Tripos’ compliance scorecard.
“Tripos was keenly aware of the possibility that mobile workers might connect to untrusted networks and of the disparity mobile systems often exhibit over time between the desired security policies and their actual conformity, which can quickly lead to infections and vulnerabilities that can be exploited,” said Todd Nakano, executive vice president for InfoExpress. “Preventing these threats from reaching the enterprise network is a serious concern, and is the primary goal of our CyberGatekeeper solution.”
CyberGatekeeper audits all networked systems continuously for policy compliance. Unqualified systems attempting to access the network are automatically blocked and redirected for remediation.
CyberArmor is an endpoint firewall solution. It is fully customizable and environmentally sensitive, adjusting its policies dynamically to ensure maximum protection at all times, whether a user connects directly to the corporate network, over a wireless link, or over a VPN connection.
About Tripos, Inc.
Tripos combines leading-edge technology and innovative science to deliver consistently superior, chemistry-research products and services for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and other life science industries. Within Tripos’ Discovery Informatics (DI) business, the company provides software products and consulting services to develop, manage, analyze and share critical drug discovery information. Within Tripos’ Discovery Research (DR) business, Tripos’ medicinal chemists and research scientists partner directly with clients in their research initiatives, leveraging state-of-the-art information technologies and research facilities. Headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., Tripos spans the world with global research operations and an international client base. Further information on Tripos can be found at http://www.tripos.com .
About InfoExpress
Hundreds of security-conscious organizations use InfoExpress technology for network security solutions that protect enterprise networks and the endpoints connecting to them. The company’s flagship CyberGatekeeper protects enterprise networks by ensuring the integrity of endpoint systems. As a policy enforcement and network access control solution, CyberGatekeeper inspects and audits all systems and effectively quarantines non-compliant or misconfigured endpoints. InfoExpress, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA, has provided endpoint policy enforcement and centrally managed endpoint firewall solutions since 2000.
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CONTACT: Patrick Corman of Corman Communications, +1-650-326-9648, orpatrick@cormancom.com, for InfoExpress
