Security Answers the Call
James S. Tiller · Information Systems Security · 2006
In 1998, I was working in Germany designing a 5,000-site IP security (IPSec) virtual private network (VPN) solution encompassing 125 countries for a logistics company. The options were few. Timestep had the best product during that time, and many other IPSec products were emerging, such as Altiga, Novell's Border- Manager, and Checkpoint. Of course, Cisco was very interested but didn't have solid IPSec code. Cisco got involved and insisted that, with a little work, they could have a meaningful solution. This boded well for the client given that they used Cisco for all their networking gear, making the whole philosophy very attractive.