Comments on: Rohati Launches Security Appliance for Compliance

By: Jen Ebersole

Jen Ebersole — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:02:46 +0000

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By: technology pr

technology pr — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:53:36 +0000

You can use a network level software based firewall or application level proxy filter like Squid cache. But it is cumbersome to integrate various software pieces. Some might find it easier to drop an appliance and forget it after some minor configuration changes. I think there is a good market for firewall type appliance. I am not an expert in this area. But from my experience I can tell that appliance brings convenience, reliability and performance when compared to software based solution.

By: Jesse Robbins

Jesse Robbins — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:27:34 +0000

Stacey,

Many Cisco employees leave, found competing and innovative network products, get acquired by cisco, rinse, and repeat. For a while in the Valley, I think that was actually a fundable business plan. ;-)

Incidentally, compliance is quickly becoming a cost-of-doing business for startups too. If they haven’t built to scale with SOX in mind, they should expect to impact their valuation. I talked about this on a recent IT Conversations podcast.

-Jesse Robbins

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:49:38 +0000

The appliance model shouldn’t inhibit a decent exit with one of the major players, if you look at where similar compliance tools such as SIEM devices which serve a similar need (compliance reporting) are going, most are now appliances or have at least an appliance option.

Generally for compliance initiatives it is a good idea to look at the full scope of requirements and a sledgehammer approach like this I think will have difficulty working within the enterprise which are the ones who have heavy regulations (like SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA etc…) there requirements are just too broad, also it appears that their device is in-line in front of AD/LDAP which is a worry for a large enterprise.

It’s good to see start-up’s addressing this space but half the companies I see though have trouble getting NAC and Network DLP to work, let alone access restriction based on the network traffic!