What is Apani Networks doing, and how do you address the network security and compliance space?
DL: The growing regulatory compliance environment is focused primarily on privacy, integrity and the protection of confidential information. This is requiring IT managers to apply the same level of security inside the perimeter as they traditionally have outside it. Unfortunately the tools traditionally used outside the perimeter are not well suited to being implemented inside the perimeter. There is a difference in scale for most organizations which raised the issues of managing large numbers in a cost effective manner. There is also significant difference in encryption technologies. The classic VPN gateway was built to allow encryption to occur from the perimeter to the edge, it doesn’t implement well within the perimeter. Plus the encryption protocols that work well in a latency rich Internet environment, for example SSL, do not work well in the internal network. Additionally not only is there a need to secure the whole environment but, at the same time IT managers need to be able t