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November 24, 1997, Section: News & Analysis

Data Fellows Plays It Safe

By Rutrell Yasin

Data Fellows last week became the first antivirus software company to join Finjan's Java Security Alliance. To date, many of the leading firewall vendors have teamed up with Finjan Software to secure enterprise networks against hostile Java or ActiveX applets. Finjan provides a scalable content-inspection engine designed specifically for Java and ActiveX security. Some industry analysts said that traditional antivirus software cannot adequately protect networks from mobile code such as Java and ActiveX because security breaches from these technologies don't follow set patterns. "The relationship between clients and servers has changed. Information can be pushed to a server or a client, which can change the behavior of a friendly server," said Penny Leavey, Finjan's vice president of worldwide marketing. Many companies have responded by blocking out Java and ActiveX, thus losing out on all the benefits of the technologies. To give users an extra layer of virus protection, Data Fellows will integrate its CounterSign scanning engines with Finjan's content inspection technology by the beginning of next year.