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CipherOptics Announces Industry’s First Network-Wide Native Layer 2 Security Solution with CipherEngine

(March 20, 2007)--CipherOptics,  innovator of Compliance Grade data protection solutions, released Layer 2 support for CipherEngine, providing the industry’s first complete security solution for Layer 2 networks. This unique, transparent solution broadens the umbrella of data protection beyond Layer 3 and allows users to implement Secure Information Sharing across the entire network without adding Layer 3 overhead or altering network design or architecture.

Prior to this release, users of Layer 2 networks including Metro-Ethernet, VPLS, Fiber and other Transparent LAN Services, were unable to secure information traffic on a broad scale with a native Layer 2 solution, limiting their capacity for security and compliance with government and industry regulations such as SOX, GLBA, CA 1386 and PCI, which require companies to protect consumer information.

Unlike other data protection solutions, CipherEngine works over any Ethernet topology without impacting network architecture or application performance. One of the more compelling features of this latest CipherEngine release is the ability to encrypt traffic based on Virtual LAN (VLAN) groupings. Now network traffic can be separated logically and cryptographically, ensuring tighter security, functional separation and regulatory compliance.

“Our customers and strategic partners challenged us to take data protection beyond Layer 3 and we are proud to have met that challenge,” says Ron Willis, President and CEO of CipherOptics. “With CipherEngine, both Layer 2 and Layer 3 users can now take advantage of the industry’s only scalable, transparent and easy to use Secure Information Sharing solution, enjoying all the benefits of comprehensive network security without having to change the way they run their network.”

CipherOptics CipherEngine Policy & Key Manager is a breakthrough solution that eliminates the complexity of policy and key management, as well as the scalability issues associated with traditional encryption. CipherEngine offers a first-of-its-kind network-wide security solution for the generation and distribution of policies and keys, allowing organizations to achieve the highest level of data protection and regulatory compliance without having to change their underlying network infrastructures; without negatively impacting network or application performance; and without increasing management or operational costs.

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