IT organizations must comply with numerous government regulations that create a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms: SOX (the Sarbanes-Oxley Act), GLBA (the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and many others. Add to the mix industry regulations such as PCI DSS (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and you have a recipe for confusion and complexity.

Jeskell-FusionStorm and Alcatel-Lucent have the right ingredients for enhanced security and regulatory compliance. Jeskell and Alcatel-Lucent have teamed up to deliver unique enterprise network and information security solutions that help customers achieve maximum return on their security investment, reduce security risks and meet compliance objectives. These solutions combine Alcatel-Lucent’s security products with Jeskell’s security services, offering enterprises the option to obtain security gap analysis and remediation from the same team.

Jeskell provides market-leading network security solutions based upon industry best practices and a strict adherence to open standards to maximize ROI. Jeskell also operates a NOC designed for continuous business operation, managing security 24x7x365 for enterprises that opt for outsourcing.

Alcatel-Lucent’s security products focus on end-user activities and provide the fine-grained controls needed to protect the system. These products also provide the audit trails needed to secure corporate networks and protect against information security breaches, creating a corporate-wide security infrastructure that enables customers to meet government and industry-specific compliance requirements.

Alcatel-Lucent’s commitment to open standards combined with Jeskell’s use of open-source platforms can mean lower IT security costs for enterprise customers. Alcatel-Lucent and Jeskell can also provide external management of the customer’s security infrastructure, relieving enterprises of the need to maintain the expertise and equipment required for around-the-clock monitoring of their increasingly complex networks.

Alcatel-Lucent is delivering security features that go beyond traditional secure networking to meet heightened information privacy regulations, serve an increasingly mobile workforce, and provide an open architecture to maximize flexibility and choice. Its rapidly expanding portfolio of innovative security solutions helps enterprises manage user access to corporate data, applications and communication.

OmniAccess 8550 Web Services Gateway (WSG) allows controlled access to sensitive information across multiple IT systems. It employs industry-leading session-based, stateful XML message inspection technology to deliver consolidated audit trails and run-time policy enforcement. It also supports and secures automated business processes while ensuring regulatory compliance, protecting sensitive corporate information from misuse and ensuring its availability when and where it is needed. The OmniAccess 8550 WSG enables corporate-wide interoperability among business-critical internal information systems and external partner networks, providing a corporate-wide compliance infrastructure that reduces costs and risk.

OmniAccess Safeguard manages user access and restricts application use while on the network, characterizes traffic patterns, identifies intrusions based on pre-configured heuristics, and protects users and the network against known or unknown attacks.

OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian is a revolutionary laptop security and management system developed to secure, monitor, manage and locate a mobile computer, anywhere, anytime, even when it’s shut off. It features a 3G-based PCMCIA card with its own battery, memory, processor, OS, and software mini computer operating within the laptop. In case of theft, IT departments can back up and delete laptop data, dramatically reducing company risk and liability. OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian also simplifies and speeds routine upgrades and backups by allowing IT departments unassisted 24x7 access to remote laptops.

Alcatel-Lucent VPN Firewall Brick solutions are security appliances that integrate application layer inspection and firewall functionality with advanced VPN capabilities for small-office through data-center requirements. The portfolio delivers security for mission-critical IP applications to headquarters employees, branch offices, trading partners, road warriors and customers.

At Jeskell, we are committed to developing and maintaining strategic relationships that help us deliver end-to-end solutions to our customers, said Steve Rogers, VP of Engineering and Strategic Planning, Jeskell. Our partnership with Alcatel-Lucent provides customers with end-to-end security based upon open standards, best-of-breed equipment and Jeskell’s unmatched professional and managed services. The result is reduced risk, improved resilience and a better return on the security investment.