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Shearwater Solution has received the award for J Partner of the year from Juniper Networks (Juniper) for 2006 for Australia/ New Zealand. The award was received at Juniper’s annual partner conference for the Asia Pacific region held in Thailand and recognises Shearwaters expertise and experience with the Juniper’s product range and the commitment to Juniper’s reseller program.
Shearwater has developed expertise in Juniper’s security solutions bringing network and application level protection to high performance networks. In addition Shearwater has also specialised in the Application Acceleration area which provides Data centre and WAN optimisation solutions for remote, branch office and mobile users with fast, secure and assured access to centralised web based and client server applications.
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
More vulnerabilities are discovered every day. In order to protect your assets it is important to be aware of the issues facing your online presence, vulnerabilities in the infrastructure is one such issue. By regularly scanning your perimeter for vulnerabilities this risk can be addressed in a more timely and systematic manner.
Shearwater with Lucent announced that they will be providing a managed vulnerability scanning services that assists organisations in protecting against these vulnerabilities. For more information on this service offering please contact us for more information.
About Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J., USA, visit www.lucent.com.
Together with Juniper Networks and Oracle Australia, Shearwater held a seminar on accelerating applications using Juniper technology as well as identity management solutions from Oracle.
Oracle Corporation is a Juniper Networks alliance partner and has complementary solutions. Shearwater works closely with both organisations and used the opportunity to showcase solutions from these organisations and how they can assist in meeting business objectives.
Shearwater has presented at a number of combined council group meetings discussing Information Security and current issues in security. The focus of these presentations was to raise the profile of IT Security issues within the council environment as well as to make councils more aware of current legislation which is impacting on the Councils such as the Work Place Surveillance Act.
Shearwater has worked with a number of Councils on various projects including policy development, vulnerability assessments as well as the development, implementation and management of ICT security infrastructure.
Mark Hofman, who is the professional service manager of Shearwater Solutions, was the lead trainer on the Security Essential course for the SANS Institute' at the Brisbane SANS conference. The SANS institute is recognised as one of the leading training institutions for information security. Mark is currently the only SANS authorised trainer from Australia and has presented for SANS at a number of training conferences. He is scheduled to present at the SANS Sydney training to be held at the Sydney Hilton from 14-19 August. He will be presenting on “401 Security: SANS Security Essentials Bootcamp Style
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
The research that was undertaken by the University focused on developing an automated model against distributed denial of Service attacks. The research was jointly sponsored by Commonwealth Government of Australia and Shearwater as the Industry partner. The research has resulted in a number of publications in International and national journals as well as presentations at international conferences. The research was awarded the PGRF award from the Macquarie University in May 2003.
Shearwater Solutions is proud to announce that Martin Kaldor has joined the organisations. Martin has extensive achievements in business management, business development, strategic planning and project management in the Communications and IT Security industry. Martin has been involved in Information Security since 1995. Martin is currently National Chair of ISIG (the Australian Information Security Interest Group).
Martin’s initial experience was involved in international telecommunications, and WAN and LAN systems for Business and Government applications. His experience includes technical system and management solution developments for International and Australian organizations. His background includes management positions and business development activities in organisations such as Overseas Telecommunications Commission, AWA, Lend Lease, QPSX Communications, Marconi and Blue Sky Industries. His qualifications include BE (Communications) from UNSW, MBA from Macquarie University Graduate School of Management, and numerous short courses, including Information Security. He has lectured at Macquarie University and various Industry Seminars and Conferences.
His information security involvement covers a range of security systems, channel development and corporate management, including projects in banking, manufacturing, government, and other industries. In the Federal government area, he has been involved in meeting Government agency requirements such as Commonwealth Electronic Commerce System, Aust Bureau of Statistics, Dept of Defence, Dept of Treasury, Reserve Bank, Defence Computing Bureau, and supporting services such as Cluster gateways of CSC, SecureNet and 90 East (now CyberTrust) These activities have involved liaison with DSD, Attorney-General's Dept and DCITA.
Martin has extensive project management experience, applied to projects in AWA, Lend Lease and QPSX. Projects include Relocation of Channel 10 from North Ryde to Ultimo, maintaining on-air coverage, roll-out of Lend Lease conversion to ISDN, and Certificate Security implementation for the Commonwealth Electronic Commerce System