Intrusion prevention has evolved as a smarter alternative to intrusion detection. Pioneer OKENA has mapped application behaviors into rules, and is using these behavior rules to prevent intrusions up front. This second-generation approach offers substantial bottom line savings, and frees up IT resources for other tasks.
Detecting an intrusion is useful. Preventing an intrusion is far more useful. OKENA's StormWatch intrusion prevention technology offers break-through capabilities previously unseen by traditional intrusion detection companies.
This is not surprising news for anyone who knows OKENA's founder Shaun McConnon. Mr. McConnon founded Raptor Systems in 1994, and at Raptor introduced the first firewall built for NT. In an already competitive market, and defying security critics who downplayed the marketability of an NT firewall, Mr. McConnon lead Raptor to become one of the most respected names in firewall engineering, and later sold it to AXENT. (Just last year AXENT was sold to Symantec, and has since introduced a souped up Raptor based firewall appliance called VelociRaptor.)
Pioneering visionary security technology seems to be one of the things that Mr. McConnon does best. The word "OKENA" means "to fulfill" in Hawaiian, and OKENA's pro-active approach to network and system intrusions holds promise to fulfill a segment in the security market not yet developed by other vendors.
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Headquarters 71 Second Avenue
Waltham, MA, 02451
Website http://www.okena.com/
Employees 40
Field Offices Boston, Chicago, New York,
San Francisco, Washington D.C.
Contact Information 781-209-3200
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