China's Founder Develops New Net Security Product

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://asia.internet.com/2000/9/0408-COL.html

[September 4, 2000--BEIJING] Chinas Founder Electronics Co. has
developed a new method of Internet security and expects that it will
become one of the worlds leading Internet security solutions.
Founder chief Zou Wei said that their new technology had passed an
evaluation by the Ministry of Public Security and that it would be put
into production soon.

He said that most existing Internet security products worldwide are
still using the traditional firewall technology whose weakness is the
possession of an Internet protocol address, which can be bypassed or
destroyed by hackers. However, the Firebridge concept proposed by
Founder does not have this weakness, the Aug. 24 Xinhuashe (Xinhua
News Agency) reported.

Founders network security product, Sharks, is developed on the basis
of this concept. It therefore does not have an IP address, making it
impossible for hackers to detect it, according to the story. Moreover,
Sharks can monitor and filter hacker attacks at any time.

The installation of this software does not require the adjustment of
other settings on the computer.

Foreign experts said that some foreign companies and scientific
research institutions were developing similar products but had not
commercialized them yet, the article added.

Sharks software can effectively filter distributed denial of service
(DDoS) attacks. In February of this year, hackers forced several
world-renowned Web sites, including U.S.-based Yahoo! to suspend
services.

The new technology has been successfully used for the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games Bid Committee Web site, the article said.


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