NAI to pull plug on CyberCop

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25441.html

By ComputerWire
Posted: 27/05/2002 at 05:13 GMT

Network Associates Inc will in July pull the plug on further
development of its popular CyberCop vulnerability scanner and
intrusion-detection product and instead will redirect efforts to
integrate new security functionality into lines produced out of its
Sniffer Technologies network analyser arm.

Products reaching end of life on July 1 include the CyberCop Scanner
5.5, distributed CyberCop Scanner 2.0 and the CyberCop Monitor 2.5.  
The company maintains its plan does not in any way affect the existing
CyberCop ASaP services, which will continue to be a McAfee Security
product offering. The Santa Clara, California-based company said that
maintenance for the scanner line will continue through until the end
of 2004, with scheduled signature updates performed quarterly rather
than on a monthly basis.

The move follows previous announcements that technology from the PGP
Security division would be folded into other Network Associates'
products after the divestment in February of the unit's core firewall
business to Secure Computing Inc. Elements of the Cybercop product
have already found a way into ThreatScan, a new tool from the McAfee
Security stable. This is intended to routinely schedule virus
vulnerability scans and updated signatures to report on unprotected,
unmanaged, infected and virus-vulnerable machines. ThreatScan works
alongside the company's Virus Security Policy Management console,
ePolicy Orchestrator.

Meanwhile, the Sniffer Technologies network analyzer arm is working to
add an intrusion-detection module to its popular Sniffer product suite
in the next three months, which will also draw on CyberCop Scanner
intrusion-detection and risk-assessment programs. By incorporating
aspects of CyberCop, such as tracer packet firewall testing to provide
audits of firewalls and routers, it is expected that the new Sniffer
intrusion-detection module will not only help check the network
perimeter, but also check inside the boundaries. The idea behind this
is that checks for viruses and other potentially malicious behavior
need to be made at internal PCs and servers as well at the edge of the
network.

Back in October 2001 Network Associates said to would be wrapping much
of the remaining PGP Security technology into its McAfee Security and
Sniffer Technologies portfolios. And on May 2, the company announced
an agreement with Internet Security Systems Inc to share the
technologies the companies need to develop next-generation security
solutions.



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