Ultimate security? A computer to safeguard your computer

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 10:52

Your IT - Home IT

Yoggie Security Systems has unveiled a processor-on-an-ExpressCard that plugs into a laptop, runs 13 security applications and is claimed to "provide the most advanced protection on the market."

The Gatekeeper Card Pro, unveiled at the Infosecurity Europe show, is billed as "a full-blown computer with its own processor, memory and hardened operating system...essentially a computer within a computer...for the purpose of providing the most advanced security protection on the market."

According to Yoggie, it does not require complex installation, configuration or ongoing management. "Users do not have to worry about updates as the device automatically checks for them each time it connects to the Internet and manages the entire process transparently."

IT managers can provide staff with corporate level security enabled on Yoggie cards and remotely manage these via the Yoggie Management Server, which runs on the corporate customer's servers. It provides security policy updates, signatures and rule-based updates and collects logs from users' laptops.

Security functions provided include: anti-virus ; anti-spyware; anti-phishing; anti-spam; intrusion detection & prevention; firewall; web filtering/parental content control; adaptive security policy; multilayer security agent; layer-8 security engine; transparent email proxies; transparent web proxies; VPN client. The Gatekeeper Card Pro will be available from 26 May online at www.yoggie.com for $US199.