-- Industry Leading Hardware and Security Management Service Offers Complete Security Features--
San Francisco California, Frankfurt Germany, New York - April 24, 2002 - NAVASTREAM INC., a global leader in videoconferencing security and conferencing encryption, announced the release of the NAVASTREAM VIP product line, a stand-alone encryption and authentication solution optimized for securing IP videoconferencing and voice applications. With the new conference encryption product-line for IP, NAVASTREAM offers organizations much-needed protection for vulnerable applications like video and voice communications, while maintaining complete transparency to the end-users.
Security Breaches
Joint industry security reports compiled by the FBI and CSI indicate that 90% of surveyed correspondents reported communications security breaches originating from sources external to their corporate networks. These breaches, which arose in a variety of formats, often surfaced as passwords and conversations lifted from Internet traffic leaving the corporate domain. Videoconferencing transmissions, because of their high-level audience and proprietary content are highly susceptible to this type of hacking.
Videoconferences under Attack
During a videoconference, sensitive information is often sent via private networks where it is vulnerable to various high-end forms of espionage. Videoconferences transmitted over the Internet, although a fraction of the cost of those conducted over private networks, compound the security problem, because unencrypted traffic is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and sniffer software running on a server or desktop PC.
Real-time Secure Communications
Until now, videoconferencing's special needs for real-time communication through high bandwidth transmissions and multiple proprietary handshaking scenarios made it exceedingly difficult for videoconference product manufacturers and security providers to join forces in offering encrypted video over IP. Navastream's custom designed VIP-crypt™ (available on VIP 1000, 5000 and GIG only) chip now enables transparent encrypted video and voice over IP possible.
Compatible with Leading Videoconferencing Products
Built from the ground up to provide strong security that does not degrade the quality of the video stream and is transparent to the end-user, the Navastream VIP family combines high throughput, low latency and maximum compatibility with leading videoconferencing products. The VIP uses the industry's strongest encryption - including DES3 and AES - and authentication schemes to tunnel video and voice securely across the Internet or private TCP/IP networks.
Enterprise Features
Like all Navastream products, VIP features a remote management software package, NavaManager, for secure, flexible and transparent SNMP-based control and monitoring capabilities. NavaManager provides the ability to define integrated security policies and management features that can be distributed across multiple VIP gateways.
About Navastream:
Navastream is the world's leader in managed communications security, serving Fortune 500 companies, multinational financial institutions and government agencies worldwide. With the Babylon product line, Navastream accounts for 85% of the commercial market for H.320 video encryption. The Babylon and VIP product lines combined with Navastream's managed security service provide companies with an industry leading communications security solution.
