Greater China’s leading IP carrier teams up with MessageLabs, NetScreen and ScalaSoft to explore the parameters of cyber-immunity and the efficiency of total managed security solutions
(Hong Kong, 16 August 2001) Greater China’s leading IP carrier Diyixian will join forces with three other industry leaders – MessageLabs, NetScreen and ScalaSoft – to launch a press conference and seminar on total managed security solutions, showing participants, especially companies with multiple offices and networks, proven best practices for implementing a comprehensive, reliable and scalable security policy.
As the Code Red and Code Red II worms are defacing Web sites and slowing Internet traffic around the world, more and more companies realize that they do not possess the resources and technical expertise to implement a holistic approach to network security. That’s where the concept of total managed security is important. Through the outsourcing of security needs, total managed security solutions solve the fundamental problem of managing network security, offering more rapid response and in-depth knowledge into security breaches and hacking attempts.
¡§Diyixian is pleased to join forces with three respected security firms in their mission to protect customers from the growing number of security breaches and paralysing attacks,¡¨ said Lap Man, CEO of Diyixian. ¡§In an age when new cyber-threats are constantly emerging, when the sophistication of hackers has rendered even highly protected networks vulnerable to invasion, it is virtually impossible for most in-house security staff to keep up with the latest threats and vulnerabilities. Comprehensive, centrally managed security solutions eliminate the need for customers to invest in additional network security staff, allowing them to concentrate on their core business objectives.¡¨
During the press conference and seminar, particular reference will be made to three synergy-based approaches to security – DYXNet Managed Virusfree Email Service, DYXNet Managed Firewall Service, and DYXNet Managed Network Scanning Service. By leveraging Diyixian’s Cisco Powered Network, MessageLabs intelligence-based email filtering scanners, NetScreen’s state-of-the-art managed firewall devices, and ScalaSoft’s fully-managed network scanning services, the DYXNet managed security portfolio offers companies a flexible, scalable and easy-to-implement security solution against internal and external attacks.
James Lo, Regional Sales Director, North Asia, NetScreen Technologies, Inc., said: “The increased sophistication of hackers means that companies do not have the resources and expertise to thwart further and often more disastrous attacks. With the addition of NetScreen’s high-performance ASIC-based firewall and private network integrated solution to Diyixian’s managed security portfolio, customers will experience the highest level of security for mission-critical data.”
“As hackers’ sophistication at breaching security walls is evolving, companies have to bolster their security systems by seeking a solid, third-party opinion of their defence policies,” said Petrus Sung, President of Scalasoft. “Our network scanning service is a natural fit with these industry-leading managed security solutions, which, together, will offer customers more protection from network threats.”
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About Diyixian.com Limited
Diyixian.com is Greater China’s first and leading IP Carrier, offering total Internet solutions to enterprise customers. It operates one of the largest networks in Greater China with more than 12 Points of Presence (POPS), over 30M ATM/Frame Relay-based Internet backbone to China and Taiwan, multiple OC-3 (155M) to Hong Kong Tier-1 providers. Employing outstanding technical expertise and professional customer support, Diyixian.com is committed to providing secure and reliable high-speed Internet connections for businesses, with full peering to all ISPs in Hong Kong, over 60M direct peering to ChinaNet, CERNet, Jitong, China Unicom, HiNet, SeedNet and 500M direct connection to the HKIX and TWIX (Taiwan Internet Exchange). For more information, please go to ¡Ghttp://www.dyxnet.com.cn.
About MessageLabs
MessageLabs is a leading Managed Services Provider (MSP) specializing in Internet level email security. Its revolutionary SkyScan portfolio of services enables customers to be protected from threats such as viruses, unsolicited mail, malicious and sensitive content, and porn, which are all intercepted before they reach the customers’ network boundaries. The first company worldwide to intercept the infamous ¡¥Lovebug’ virus, it is the only security service that guarantees all its customers 100% total virus protection.
MessageLabs is part of the Star Technology Group, with over 300 employees across the globe, and was established in January 2000. For further information, go to ¡Ghttp://www.messagelabs.com.
About NetScreen Technologies
NetScreen Technologies develops ASIC-based Internet security systems and appliances that deliver high performance firewall, private network and traffic management functions to Internet data centers, service providers and enterprises. This approach offers customers award-winning performance, scalability, and manageability in one comprehensive security solution. NetScreen is located at 350 Oakmead Parkway, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, with Asia Pacific headquarters at Rm. 3207, Office Tower, Convention Plaza, 1 Harbour Rd., Wanchai, Hong Kong. More information on NetScreen’s products can be found at ¡Ghttp://www.netscreen.com.
About ScalaSoft
ScalaSoft is a unique JavaTM software development company, providing a complete line of products/solutions for corporate enterprises and service providers. Established since January 2000, ScalaSoft is founded by President Petrus Sung, who has twenty years of extensive IT and management experience from his previous positions with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, TIBCO and Sun Microsystems.
ScalaSoft comprises two major technical disciplines: application and system engineering. The application team is to focus on developing back-end engines in JavaTM. System engineering is to build scalable and secure infrastructure to support the JavaTM architecture and the back-end engines ScalaSoft has developed. To get further information about ScalaSoft, please surf on http://www.scalasoft.com.
For further information, please contact:
Annie Yu
Diyixian.com Limited
Tel: (852) 2187 7633
Fax: (852) 2187 7677
Email: hkmkt@dyxnet.com
Mary Wong
MessageLabs (Asia) Limited
Tel: (852) 2166 8657
Fax: (852) 2166 8566
Email: mwong@messagelabs.com
Anna Chan
NetScreen Technologies, Inc.
Tel: (852) 2519 3988
Fax: (852) 2519 6099
Email: achan@netscreen.com
Kasu Hai
ScalaSoft Limited
Tel: (852) 2119 8319
Fax: (852) 2891 4322
Email: kasu@scalasoft.com
