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PHOENIX - Last week's Demo '06 conference show cased a wide variety of new offerings designed for consumer and business use, ranging from vertical search engines to identity theft protection - and even a high-tech ice-cream machine.
Roughly 70 companies presented new products at the event, which is owned by Network World.
IronPort announced an appliance designed to keep Web-based threats - including spyware, viruses, keylogging and phishing - from entering an organization. The S-Series appliance, slated to be available this summer, aims to do for Web traffic what IronPort's existing appliances do for e-mail - catch malware at a company's gateway.
The appliance includes IronPort's Web-reputation filters, announced last month, which assess each Web site encountered based on a number of factors to produce a detailed score, says Pat Peterson, CTO of IronPort. These factors include how long the site has been in existence, whether it contains downloadable code, changes in the...