Enterasys Networks and Vynamic, a provider of security solutions for the e-learning marketplace, have entered into a technology partnership designed to enable the companies to offer solutions that protect faculty and institutional intellectual property and provide a secure environment for research and academic records.
Martin May, regional director of Enterasys Networks SA, says the partnership will have a number of positive implications for the growing number of e-learning institutions in South Africa.
"With increasing numbers of higher education institutions and numerous enterprise companies offering online courses to students and staff, security has become a major concern in the e-learning market," says May.
"Enterasys and Vynamic are teaming up to solve these problems by engineering solutions that assure that only registered students and users can obtain access to the network and to proprietary information. "
May says several levels of security for e-learning and Digital Rights Management (DRM) will be addressed.
"Once a user is inside an education system protected by Vynamic, the system attaches an identifying digital certificate to the user`s browser. This digital certificate helps authenticate the user as an authorised user, not someone who has pirated the password of a colleague," says May.
To properly authenticate users, Vynamic offers software as well as hardware solutions for high-level security needs. The latter can include biometric thumb print readers or retina scanning devices attached to the PC for highly secure environments or simply users` details such as account or social security numbers and passwords.
"Through our partnership with Vynamic, Enterasys continues to add technologies that enable our Secure Harbour architecture to protect all parts of the enterprise network. This partnership reinforces our mission to foster and develop leading edge technologies which secure our customers` entire networking infrastructures," May adds.
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