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HP advances its security agenda
Hewlett-Packard started off the week with a security agenda.
Indicating a strong bent toward ramping up security offerings for adaptable corporate computing environments, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company unveiled a cluster of new security products and services at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Calif.
First up to bat, HP introduced two new security installation tools, the HP-UX Bastille v2.0 for the HP-UX 11i operating system and the new Install-Time Security tool.
Both products are intended to streamline the technical and administrative aspect of locking down UNIX host servers.
The Install-Time Security tool allows customers to choose the degree of lockdown security during installation from pre-set security settings, which are then configured by HP-UX Bastille v2.0.
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