Red Creek grabs policy technology from Internet Dynmamics

NEWARK, CALIF. - Red Creek is buying Internet Dynamics to obtain technology that will let network professionals more easily manage Red Creek-based VPNs supporting thousands of end users.

The deal is important because it brings Internet Dynamics policy-based access-control technology to Red Creek's Ravlin VPN appliances, which are located at each VPN site between the WAN access router and network devices such as PCs and servers. That Internet Dynamics technology, called Conclave, will let corporate customers set VPN access policies centrally and have those policies automatically distributed to the Ravlin devices that enforce policies at each...