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Shearwater Solutions (Shearwater) has achieved Endorsed Supplier status under the Australian Government’s Endorsed Supplier Arrangement (ESA). In achieving this status Shearwater has demonstrated its commitment to adhere to current industry standards and agreed Australian government policies
Currently a large proportion of Shearwater’s client base consists of government organizations and the ESA will assist Shearwater in responding to its Federal customer base and expanding this part of the business.
An infrastructure organisation has selected Shearwater and Juniper’s Secure Access offering for their secure remote access solution.
Users of the SSL VPN solution include support staff, multiple employees as well as selected customers. The solution facilitates Citrix access to legacy applications, Internet file access, Windows file share, customer applications, terminal services, Microsoft exchange as well as Terminal SSH access for network device support.
One of the major benefits of the Juniper solution is that it allows access to systems in a disaster recovery situation, eliminating the need for staff to be in one location in order for the organisation to continue to function in this situation.
The improved security functionality, business continuity benefits and lower support costs of the system where all major reasons why the Juniper solution was selected.
Shearwater assisted the organisation in defining their requirements, evaluating alternate options and in implementing the selected solution
About Juniper Secure Access Solution
The Juniper Networks Netscreen Secure Access appliances are the market leading SSL VPN solution, with over 44% market share. The SSL VPN appliances enable organisations to deploy cost effective remote access, extranet and intranet security. Users can access corporate networks and applications from any standard web browser. The use of SSL technology eliminates the need for client software deployment, changes to internal servers and costly ongoing maintenance. Contact sales@shearwatersolutions.com.au for further information.
Shearwater Solutions (Shearwater) has been approved by Novell partnerNet as a registered Solutions provider. Becoming a Novell partner strengthens Shearwater’s overall solution offering and assists the organization in providing broader services to its customer base.
A large number of Shearwater’s customer base use Novell product offering and having in-house certified Novell engineers ensures that the organization is well placed to respond to our customer’s needs.
Currently Shearwater is involved in a Novell Netware project at a NSW State Government organization.
About Novell
Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) is a leading provider of infrastructure software and services to over 50,000 customers in 43 countries. With more than 20 years of experience in data center, workgroup and desktop solutions, Novell's 6,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the world are meeting customer requirements for identity-driven computing and Linux solutions. By providing enterprise-class software and support for commercial and open source software, Novell delivers increased operating flexibility and choice at a lower total cost of ownership. More information about Novell can be found at http://www.novell.com.
Shearwater Solutions (Shearwater) has been approved as a Juniper Network (Juniper) Select Partner, which places the organization among a select few organizations in Australia that have the expertise and resources to provide specialist services and products for Juniper Network’s range of products and services. These include SSL VPN, NetScreen appliances, J-Series routers and IDP systems.
Shearwater specialization for the partner program is in the areas of advanced security and enterprise networking. Part of the qualification for Select Partner requires investment in skills and expertise. This partner program places Shearwater in a stronger position to respond to its customer base with market leading technology and expertise.
About Juniper Networks, Inc.
Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company's purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks' portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding networks
Shearwater has been selected to assist a NSW State organization in preparing the corporation to meet the standards for AS/NZS7799.2:2003 certification.
The company’s trained consultants, including lead auditor certification , 7799 processes, industry knowledge as well as its experience in assisting other organizations with their certification where key differentiators which assisted it in securing the tender.
The process is expected to be completed in line with the NSW Government Circulars Nos; 2001 – 46 and 2004 – 06, in undertaking to certify to the AS/NZS7799.2:2003 standard for information security, by September 2005.
Shearwater is currently working with a number of organizations in preparing them for 7799 certification and has developed methodology and processes which assist in minimizing the time required to achieve the certification objective.
Shearwater is pleased to announce that Mark Hofman , a director of Shearwater Solutions (Shearwater) has been appointed by the SANS institute as an certified SANS trainer. Mark is currently the only SANS authorized trainer from Australia.
Mark is scheduled to conduct the GSEC course in Melbourne in June 2005.
Mark is also a grader for the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), which has allowed thousands of security professionals to prove their skills and knowledge meet challenging standards. GIAC offers certifications that address multiple specialty areas: security essentials, intrusion detection, incident handling, firewalls and perimeter protection, operating system security, and more.
About the SANS Institute
The SANS Institute is a research and education organization dedicated to improving cyber security through graduate level, immersion training programs taught by hands-on practitioners who are also extraordinary teachers and authors of many books on advanced security topics. More than 44,000 security and audit professionals have attended one or more SANS immersion training programs. SANS also maintains a full research agenda including the Internet Storm Center -- a large, global data collection program and analysis center that monitors unwanted traffic on the Internet for changing attack patterns and identifies infected systems early warning system for worms on the Internet. The research program also produces SANS Annual Top 20 Internet Vulnerabilities Annual program, @RISK - the weekly summary of all new internet security vulnerabilities, NewsBites – the weekly summary of the top security news stories, and many more projects, OUCH – the monthly security awareness newsletter that identifies the top new phishing threats, and many other research initiatives. For more information visit www.sans.org
Shearwater Solutions (Shearwater) has successfully assisted a NSW State Government organization operating in a complex business environment, in formulating an IM&T Strategic Plan that will guide the organization’s strategic direction for the next three years.
Shearwater has completed IM&T Strategic Plans for a number of State organizations and is well versed with OICT guidelines for preparing NSW State Government ICT Strategic Plans.
Shearwater takes a collective approach when preparing these plans and its underlying principle is to involve the client in developing these plans as they will ultimately take ownership of these plans.
The purpose of the IM&T strategic plan is to provide the organization with a framework that can be used in aligning its internal efforts and processes with the corporate direction. The IM&T strategic plan is developed to guide decision making processes, projects and tactics and ensure that effort is focused on achieving corporate objectives. New proposals or enhancements to business processes should be tested to ensure that they conform to the approved IM&T strategic plan.