NEW! - IIS-OTP SMS based OTP System is Now in General Release
IIS-OTP is our new, inexpensive highly scalable SMS (cell phone) based OTP (one time password)
system. The system is simple and very flexible. It can, in many instances, be configured to
easily retrofit an existing web authentication system (particularly forms and AD based).
A cell-phone OTP system can be added to IIS which accomodates 10's of thousands of users
for under $1000 USD. Note that no service subscriptions are required. All that is needed is
access to a standard SMTP email server. See the IIS-OTP pages for details and a free trial.
NEW! - RadCAS Radius client fully Interoperable with Dotnet
RadCAS, our COM based Radius client, is now shipped with a Dotnet assembly proxy
which facilitates full compatibility with dotnet. RadCAS still retains its COM
interface for full ASP compatibility. Please see the sample web page downloadable
at the bottom of the RadCAS Technical page to see how easy it is to use RadCAS
with Dotnet.
NEW! - TCP Scope V1.0
TCP Scope is our new proxy based sniffer for TCP connections. Its a purely
application based system which gives packet-by-packet dumps of designated
TCP streams. As it us purely application level, no low-level drivers are
required. This avoids the problems of unforeseen incompatibilities realized
with most packet sniffers.
Please proceed to the TCP Scope pages for find out more and to acquire a
free demo.
RadIIS Late Breaking
News
RadIIS 2.6 Release Available - RadIIS, our Radius authentication package
for IIS, continues to gain acceptance. The system uses a simple combination
of existing protocols/standards to provide a total web access security solution.
Please proceed to the RadIIS pages for more information. New features
with V2.6 include support for additional one-time-password schemes and the
ability to authenticate via ODBC databases.
NEW: 3 new freeware Radius authentication servers are now available.
These make RadIIS configuration and development much easier, as a full scale
Radius server isn't required. Please see the Radius Test Server page for
details and download links. Also, there is production 'authentication only'
server. Use of RadIIS with this server makes expensive CAL licensing unnecessary
in most cases.
RadIIS Update: Please see Company : Customers page for an expanded
list of recent customers.
NEW! - Radius COM Automation
Server
We are currently shipping RadCAS 1.2, our new Radius COM Automation Server.
RadCAS is a descendent of RadIIS, but is not an IIS/ISAPI component . It
is a free-standing server based on ActiveX technology. RadCAS permits
ASP/VBScript/VB/VC++ applications to do Radius Authentication. Version
1.1 included extensive facilities to access attributes returned by Radius
authentication transactions. This greatly increases the options available
when using RadCAS to implement Radius authentication solutions. New with
Version 1.2 is a COM server that allows binary downloads from asp pages.
Please proceed to the RadCAS pages for details and a demo.
Attenuate Late breaking
news!
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Biesse Informatica to distribute Attenuate in Italy. Details are are being
worked out to give Biesse sole distribution/reseller rights to market Attenuate
to the Italian market.
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The New Zealand Government's Department of Internal Affairs has obtained
site licensing for Attenuate.
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eProject, the web-based software development company in Seattle, Washington
has selected Attenuate for use on its in-house servers. Using state-of-the-art
equipment, Attenuate underwent its most rigorous test to date. We passed
with flying colors!
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Xtop selects Attenuate. The Swiss based web service provider, which is one
of the largest web-hosting providers on the Southeast Asian market, has licensed
Attenuate for use on their servers.
Advantages of
Attenuate
Microsoft's definition of throttling for IIS is 'rejection of service' (Knowledge
Base Article Q238145). From:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/Articles/q238/1/45.asp :
The (IIS) bandwidth setting determines whether IIS accepts
or rejects a request for a static HTML page, based on periodic samples of
the rate at which bytes are sent on the server.
As an example, assume you use IIS's throttling to limit a site to 50 kbs.
When the download rate for this site reaches this limit, new requests are
dropped. With Attenuate, traffic is slowed and additional requests are serviced,
all within the 50 kbs limit. Slow response is cause for complaint, but rejection
of service gives your customers the idea you went out of business!
Attenuate uses a well-established algorithm to SLOW specified requests so
that bandwidth constraints are met. With Attenuate, no requests are rejected!
You get real control of all traffic, not just static content. With Attenuate
you get many/most of the bandwidth control options available only with traffic
shaping hardware. Please proceed to the Attenuate pages for details . 15-day
demos can be obtained free of charge.
 IIS
is here to stay.
IIS is a major player in the internet server arena. It has grown up quickly
to meet the need. This rapid growth, built on the 'anti-server' architecture
of Windows, has resulted in a few deficiencies.
ASP uploads (port 80) can, in many instances, bring an IIS server t o its
knees. All downstream traffic is frozen. Bandwidth throttling (service rejection)
for downloads, exists in the form of a poorly implemented algorithm offering
very few options. The result is servers that can swamp all resources for
smaller businesses. Also, a few high bandwidth users can steal most /all
the capacity, leaving your other users lagging.
Attenuate has be introduced to remedy these shortcomings. Inexpensive and
easy to configure, it promises to be a standard add-on for IIS.
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