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Acquistion of Edenwall identity-based firewall technology, boosts NETASQ’s Security Offering
January 2012 by Marc Jacob
Network security pioneer and innovator NETASQ has announced the acquisition of EdenWall
Technologies, a French security vendor of leading edge identity-based firewall connection filtering
solutions. NETASQ plans to integrate some innovative aspects of the acquired technology into its
own solutions, providing companies and public sector organisations, with what it believes to be the
most robust and powerful network security on the market today.
“This acquisition is in line with our strategy to expand the functional perimeter of network security
solutions – responding to users’ needs by going beyond the conventional idea of authentication.
The concepts of filtering by identity and firewalls authenticating by connection seem particularly
consistent with our proactive approach to the security of tomorrow’s networks,” said François
Lavaste, NETASQ’s president. “It would have been a real pity to stand by and watch this innovative
technology disappear without doing something, as it is the fruit of a talented team’s years of
labour.”
EdenWall Technologies’ solution relied, in part, on the NuFW and NuFirewall projects, revived in late
November 2011 by the FSF (Free Software Foundation) France: http://www.ufwi.org.
“NETASQ has been closely involved with the open source community for a long time, in particular
with support from the FreeBSD project (http://www.freebsd.org)”, affirmed Pierre Calais, NETASQ’s
Vice President of Engineering and Operations. “The innovative potential of the NuFW and
NuFirewall projects is of benefit to us and we intend to keep the dynamism of this community and
encourage contributors to continue development on these projects.”
After the legal liquidation of EdenWall Technologies was pronounced in August 2011 by the
Commercial Court of Paris (Tribunal de Commerce de Paris), NETASQ successfully applied to take
over its tangible and intangible assets, including EdenWall’s technology, but with the exception of
Prelude, the security information and event management solution.
