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SecureLogix Receives Thirteenth Patent
SAN ANTONIO-(Business Wire)-January 31, 2008 - SecureLogix Corporation, a unified communications intelligence and security company, announced today the award of its thirteenth patent, twelfth in the United States. U.S. Patent number US 7,231,027 B2 protects core technology within the SecureLogix(R) ETM(R) (Enterprise Telephony Management) System, a family of communications appliances and bundled applications providing voice network management and security capabilities for the enterprise. Issued on June 12, 2007, the new patent is a Continuation patent that further strengthens the firm's existing patent protection of the ETM System. The new patent discloses and protects a system and method described as a Virtual Private Switched Telecommunications Network (VPSTN) to provide encrypted transport of calls (voice, fax, modem and video) across the untrusted public switched telephone network. Encryption can be automatically initiated by a security policy defining actions to be taken based upon at least one attribute of the call.
"This patent was filed March 1, 2004, and includes 51 claims to protect inventions related to VPSTN technologies, including automatic discovery of parties' capability to support VPSTN traffic, as well as the auto-initiation of encapsulated, compressed, and encrypted traffic, including VoIP-compatible encapsulating security payload," stated Mark Collier, SecureLogix CTO and vice president of engineering. "It enhances protections of related technologies that were included in our first telecom firewall patent filed in 1998 and our first telecom VPN patent filed in 2000."
"Over the last ten years, SecureLogix has been developing innovative solutions to secure voice networks from attack and abuse, and to simplify usage reporting and network management," added Lee Sutterfield, president of SecureLogix. "Many of these inventions are patented in the U.S. and abroad, and provide SecureLogix a substantial portfolio of unique voice security and management solutions that can only be enjoyed by our customers and authorized business partners. This thirteenth patent further highlights our leadership in truly unifying the visibility, control and security of distributed communications networks, no matter the mix of protocol or telephony vendor — Cisco, Nortel, Avaya, or Microsoft — owned by our customers."
SecureLogix Patent Portfolio
SecureLogix began building an intellectual property portfolio in 1998 with the filing of its first patent application, entitled Telephony Security System. SecureLogix subsequently augmented its initial patent application with a number of Continuation and Continuation-In-Part patent applications. SecureLogix currently owns 13 U.S. and international patents, with over 500 patent claims. These patents are the foundation of an intellectual property portfolio protecting telecommunications security, monitoring and management technologies developed by SecureLogix for its ETM System product. Each of the company's 13 patents protect inventions within one of 3 technology groups: telephony security, monitoring, and usage reporting; policy-based autonomous telephony encryption; and integrated telephony resource vulnerability assessment and management.
One core group of 8 SecureLogix patents (US 6,249,575 B1, US 6,320,948 B1, US 6,687,353 B1, US 6,718,024 B1, US 6,760,420 B2, US 6,760,421 B2, US 7,133,511 B2, and CA 2,354,149) contains 343 claims on inventions incorporated into the ETM System. They describe systems and methods of telephony resource monitoring, management, and security for call traffic, whether packet switched or circuit switched, within or between enterprise or public networks. Aspects include sensing and analyzing calls to determine call attributes, and performing security and/or management actions based upon the determined call attributes, including actions in response to attempts to encrypt a call, authenticate remote access, or monitor call content for keywords.
ETM(R) System
The state-of-the-art ETM System is the world's first real-time media voice firewall, offering centralized, real-time visibility and control over all voice network access and usage through automated security policy enforcement. The system protects enterprise telecom and data networks from telephony-borne threats such as denial-of-service, toll fraud, service abuse, harassing calls, information theft, modem line backdoors into the corporate LAN, and other unauthorized phone traffic and usage.
The ETM System's voice usage and performance management applications significantly reduce phone bills and other voice network operational costs through centralized, IP-PBX-independent call auditing, resource utilization reporting, and performance/QoS alerting and management capabilities for the enterprise. The system's patented voice security and management capabilities support TDM and VoIP, enabling the world's first unified voice security and management technology spanning legacy and VoIP communications and infrastructure.
About SecureLogix
SecureLogix, a Gartner designated "Cool Vendor" and a member of the Deloitte Fast 500, is a unified communications intelligence company, building first-of-kind solutions that secure enterprise telecom resources from attack and abuse and simplify voice network management. SecureLogix technologies are currently protecting and managing over two-and-a-half million corporate phone lines. The company's ETM System is a comprehensive solution that provides firewall security, performance monitoring, call reporting and call recording for enterprise voice networks. The ETM System has been named "Security Product of the Year" and "Most Outstanding Product of the Year" by Network Computing.
Reader Contact Information
SecureLogix Corporation, 13750 San Pedro, Suite 820, San Antonio, Texas, 78232, 210-402-9669, fax: 210-495-6693, info@securelogix.com, www.securelogix.com. ETM, SecureLogix, SecureLogix Corporation, and the SecureLogix Diamond Emblems are trademarks or registered trademarks of SecureLogix Corporation in the U.S.A. and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are believed to be trademarks of their respective owners. Patents No.: US 6,249,575 B1, US 6,320,948 B1, US 6,760,421 B2, US 6,687,353 B1, US 6,700,964 B2, US 6,718,024 B1, US 6,735,291 B1, US 6,760,420 B2, US 6,879,671 B2, US 7,133,511 B2, US 7,231,027 B2 and CA 2,354,149. U.S. and Foreign Patents Pending.
