Secure64 Gains $3.7M In Funding

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By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com

September 4, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Server application developer Secure64 Software Corporation (secure64.com) has gained $3.7 million in private investment to expand sales and marketing efforts, and to add more products to its Domain Name Server product line.

Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Secure64 announced Wednesday it had completed a round of funding from a consortium of private investors and institutions. Secure64's core technology is SourceT, a micro operating system designed to make the micro OS and any applications running on it immune to rootkits and malware, and resistant to network attacks. According to Secure64, SourceT does not need to be hardened, patched or otherwise protected. With this new funding, the company hopes to expand to more products and markets.

"These funds enable us to take advantage of the tremendous market opportunity in front of us," Secure64 director and chief executive officer Steve Goodbarn said in a statement. "All of our DNS products are immune to malware, are unaffected by high volume denial of service attacks, and deploy in a simple and resource-efficient manner. This unique approach allows organizations to reduce costs and risk by breaking the time consuming hardening and patch management cycle. We have also announced a product that simplifies and automates DNSSEC, which is the only known complete solution to the recently disclosed cache poisoning vulnerability. DNSSEC deployment enables a quantum leap in trust for the Internet."

In July, IOActive (ioactive.com) director of penetration testing Dan Kaminsky advised all network administrators to patch their servers following the accidental leak of specific technical details of a domain name service flaw he discovered earlier in the month.

Forrester Research (forrester.com) network infrastructure analyst Robert Whiteley said many networks demand mission-critical IT infrastructure to operate safely and securely. "They provide the 'dial tone' of IT -- an always-on, always-available service for connecting to data and applications," said Whiteley in a statement. "But most companies don't invest in the infrastructure that's needed to support this dial tone. Forgotten services like DHCP, DNS, and RADIUS are critical network services components that dictate availability. Yet most are woefully out of date, stagnating on non-enterprise-grade infrastructure, with few security mechanisms."

SourceT applications such as its Secure64 DNS line do not require protection from firewalls, intrusion prevention or DDoS mitigation devices. According to the company, by simplifying and consolidating network infrastructures, SourceT-based applications help reduce costs and risks while gaining "unparalleled levels of reliability and performance."

In early July, web hosting software provider Parallels (parallels.com) announced its Parallels Automation solution had integrated Secure64 DNS for implementation in Parallels automated hosting environments.

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