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Novell Acquires Immunix
By siliconindia staff writer
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Thursday, 12 May 2005, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Novell today announced it has acquired Immunix, Inc., a provider of host based application security solutions for Linux.
Immunix is the creator of AppArmor, the most effective and easy-to-use Linux application security system available today. The new product, to be called Novell AppArmor powered by Immunix, protects both the Linux operating system and applications from external or internal attacks, viruses, and malicious applications. As a result, businesses can protect key corporate data, reduce network administration costs, and comply with government regulations.
"Businesses understand attacks on their mission-critical applications can hit their bottom line unexpectedly and with grave results," said Novell chairman and CEO Jack Messman. "Only Novell AppArmor provides an enterprise-class security system for Linux that is easy to implement, deploy and maintain. Novell customers will sleep better at night knowing their applications are protected."
Novell AppArmor's proactive security reduces the need for urgent, reactive patching by stopping attacks before they can impact the system, allowing patching to become a scheduled maintenance activity, not an emergency. AppArmor offers a set of predefined security policies for popular applications such as Web, e-mail and remote login, as well as wizards that make it easy to create and deploy custom security policies. The built-in reporting and alert features allow IT professionals to ensure compliance with security regulations quickly and easily, and to receive instant notifications when intrusions do occur.