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Sergio Heker’s Security Solutions
Security is a pretty hot market, a global concern,”
says Sergio Heker, president of NextGen Internet at Enterprise
Business
Center. Every medium to large company has some kind of managed
security
service, but Heker says that for the most part they are just
monitoring
services. “They tell you when someone has broken in. But you want
someone to do something about it. We call the company to say someone
tried to break in, this is how we stopped it, and here is the
report.”
It’s a complicated subject, and Heker has scheduled several executive
briefing sessions. On Thursday, January 24, from 9 to 10:45 a.m.,
the session is free by reservation: call Colin Schreiber at
609-419-0531, extension 106, by Thursday, January 17. Additional
sessions
will be Wednesdays and Thursdays, February 20 and 21, or March 13
and 14. Larissa Mentzer of the FBI will speak about law
enforcement
and forensics, and Tom Mitchell of Intrusion Inc. will cover
intrusion detection — visibility and control.
Heker established the firm as Global Enterprise Services in 1991,
sold his United States networking operation to Colorado-based World
Net Associates Inc., and renamed his firm NextGen Internet. In Mexico,
Heker is building and using his own networks. In the United States
he offers turnkey and professional Internet services — hosting,
web and database applications, training on Bay Networks, and support
of private networks.
NextGen differentiates itself from competitors by concentrating on
comprehensive security for clients in a geographical territory, North
America to South America and Singapore. Heker’s infrastructure is
in Plainsboro but his employees are scattered over the globe —
70 employees under contract plus the availability of 70 certified
CheckPoint engineers.
NextGen has 300 corporate clients, primarily large corporations and
multinationals in Mexico, Singapore, and eight countries in Latin
America. NextGen’s ExtraNext system helps these clients interact with
the Enterprise Drive global operations center and access reports about
intrusions, firewalls, routers, and servers.
NextGen recently contracted with Texas-based Intrusion Inc. to provide
clients with turnkey, fully-managed security services for enterprise
networks. Intrusion is providing its SecureNet Pro network intrusion
detection system plus its purpose-built security appliances for
firewall
products by Check Point Software Technologies.
“Companies need to know what is going on, to stop the intruders,
to get forensic data, and go to the authorities,” says Heker.
His system plugs into the network, gathers information, and matches
it to the information in the database, which changes on a weekly
basis.
“It is not just listening, not just monitoring,” says Heker.
“It will block the signature of an intruder.”
Says Heker: “When we show the client what is going on, there is
no case that the clients are not surprised. It is like opening a
window
into their network.”
— Barbara Fox
A promise of the Internet is jazzy communications —
not just black ink on a white background, but movement, color, and
sound. Lots of each. An upcoming meeting of the Princeton Media
Communications
Association provides a look at just how these enlivening elements
make the Internet a riveting medium.
In an E-mail message on behalf of the association, communications
officer Dennis Nobile writes that “innovation often results
from the alchemy between technology, commerce, and creativity. So
it is with the Web, which has rapidly become the platform for a
unique,
interactive form of communication, combining cutting-edge animation
and graphic design with high-quality sound effects and music.”
On Thursday, January 24, at 6:30 p.m. these generation-forward
Internet
technologies are on display at a meeting of the Princeton Media
Communications
Association, at the Sarnoff Corporation. Speakers include Nick
Coogan, partner in Bullseye Art (www.bullseyeart.com) of New York
City. The company has worked on web animations and cartoon series
with Aerosmith, Phish, Hob, Icebox, and Rosie O’Donnell, too.
Also speaking is Alex Vandervere, principal of eCity Interactive
of Philadelphia, and David Lu, a designer with Gravity Shift,
the Nassau Street company formerly called RAC Productions. Cost: $15.
Call 609-716-173
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