http://www.vantronix.com/ .vantronix | secure systems GmbH (en) .vantronix en daily 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.vantronix.com/ http://www.vantronix.com/pix/vantronix.png http://www.vantronix.com/news/#news-20080904-01 Reyk Flöter 2008-09-04 Reyk Flöter will talk at this years Slackathon, the annual fundraising event for OpenBSD in Stockholm, Sweden. He will talk about the recent advances in OpenBSD's relayd like Direct-Server-Return, the dynamic IPv4/IPv6 gateway, and other improvements. The .vantronix Security Appliances are driven by OpenBSD and the relayd, with many state-of-the-art features for enterprise loadbalancing, firewalling, VPN-gateways, network Anti-SPAM, and dynamic IPv4/IPv6 gateways. The products are available in various countries including Sweden via the .vantronix | Sales Partner Scandinavian Computer Supply AB. (http://www.slackathon.se:2008/index_en.html) http://www.vantronix.com/news/#news-20080624-01 Rouven Flöter 2008-06-24 From now on Actebis Peacock sells the security appliances by .vantronix | secure systems GmbH as part of their "Value Added Distributor" (VAD) program. Actebis Peacock is the German division of the Actebis Group which is the third-largest wholesale group for ICT in Europe. More information is available in a press release by Actebis Peacock. (http://www.channelpartner.de/distributionslogistik/261739/index.html) http://www.vantronix.com/news/#news-20080306-01 Rouven Flöter 2008-03-06 The German TV channel NDR will broadcast a report about Green IT in the series "computer.welt - Best of CeBIT 2008: The latest trends at the world's biggest technology fair in Hannover". A part of the report is dedicated to the .vantronix | greenbalancing solution, providing an energy-saving operation to customers with complex applications. The solution ensures that systems in a server pool will be dynamically enabled or powered down based on the required computing resources. This prevents energy consumption of unneeded server capacities. The solution will be presented together with our partner Hostway Germany, operator of the biggest data center in the region. Hostway Germany also addresses effective energy-saving concepts for climate control, like the optimal use of open-air flow cooling. (http://www.greenbalancing.net/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/#news-20080129-01 Rouven Flöter 2008-01-29 .vantronix is located in a new office since January 1st, Am Mittelfelde 29 instead of number 39. The new location provides a better infrastructure, a direct link to the state of the art data center from Hostway Germany and enough space to extend our services and activities. (http://www.vantronix.com/vantronix/contact/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/#news-20071025-02 Rouven Flöter 2007-10-25 .vantronix improved the look of the 2nd generation firewall products by adding an unique front panel: the .vantronix grill. Of course, everything remains as it is including the world-class security, the reliable stability and the optimized functionality of the .vantronix security appliances; it is just the grill made of stainless steel improving the authoritative appearence of the C1, C2, or HA1 firewalls in your data center. A new product is the .vtFW-EM2P, the more powerful and flexible fan-less embedded firewall for your office or co-location. Featuring a better performance, integrated hardware crypto, and 8 Fast Ethernet ports as a perfect complement to the classic .vtFW-EM1P ROBO firewall. (http://www.vantronix.com/products/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20071025-01 Reyk Flöter 2007-10-25 .vantronix proudly sponsors the OpenCON 2007, the only conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD. The conference takes place in Venice, Italy, on November 30 to December 2nd. Reyk Flöter will have a talk about hoststated(8) preinspection and load balancing in OpenBSD. (http://www.opencon.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20070926-01 Reyk Flöter 2007-09-26 Reyk Flöter has been invited to the annual conference of the AUUG in Melbourne, Australia. He will have a talk about about hoststated(8) preinspection and load balancing in OpenBSD. (http://new.auug.org.au/AUUG2007) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20070904-00 Rouven Flöter 2007-09-04 The increasing success of the .vantronix | Security Appliances requires an extension of our sales force. Please have a look at our German job announcement if you want to sell a unique product, contact international customers and partners and join the .vantronix team as a sales profi. (http://vantronix.de/vantronix/jobs/#J20070904) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20070518-00 Reyk Flöter 2007-05-18 The German iX magazine from the publisher Heise reviews the new loadbalancing functionality that comes with OpenBSD 4.1 (iX 06/2007, pp. 88-90). The authors have tested the functionality of the loadbalancer including the SSL acceleration and came to an exceedingly positive result. The loadbalancer has been co-developed by .vantronix and it is running in production in many different scenarios powered by the .vantronix security appliances. (http://www.heise.de/ix/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20070222-00 Reyk Flöter 2007-02-22 The .vantronix Security Appliances are high secure firewalls, VPN gateways and high-end loadbalancers. They support layer 3 and layer 7 loadbalancing, are optimally suited for operation in networks with a high volume of data traffic and connections, and they support built-in SSL acceleration. Reyk Flöter writes in the OpenBSD journal undeadly.org about the background details of the implementation and how .vantronix contributes core technologies to the community. (http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070222041312) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20061129-00 Reyk Flöter 2006-11-29 Reyk Flöter will talk at the OpenCON 2006 in Venice, the dedicated OpenBSD conference, about the improved IPsec support in OpenBSD on December 2nd. The latest work allows easy distribution of high secure IPsec VPNs without the security drawbacks of potential SSL-VPN alternatives. (http://www.opencon.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20061026-00 Rouven Flöter 2006-10-26 The agenda and the speakers of the 2nd OpenSourceTag in Hannover have been released and can be viewed online. The speakers are Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, the President of the Federal Office for Information Security in Germany (BSI), Dr. Frank Bourseau, the Director of IT Security Infrastructure of FinanzIT GmbH, Reyk Flöter, the Technical Director of .vantronix GmbH, Heinz Petersen, responsible for IT Security at the Federal Police of Lower Saxony, and Günther Ennen of the BSI. (http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/agenda/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20060821-00 Rouven Flöter 2006-08-21 The new .vantronix Security Appliances are high-end firewalls with an optimal security and reliability based on the OpenBSD platform, the world's most secure operating system. Proactive security, .vantronix | preinspection, comprehensive support and an optimal performance and quality powered by HP hardware distinguish the unique and new products. .vantronix is Trusted Proactive Security. (http://www.vantronix.com/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20060802-00 Reyk Flöter 2006-08-02 The second Open Source Tag will be held this year on the 27th September in Hannover. Focus of the conference is Open Source and IT-Security. More information is available on the conference website (only in German). (http://www.opensourcetag.de/2006/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050613-01 Reyk Flöter 2006-05-13 Reyk Flöter has been once again invited to the annual BSD conference BSDCan in Ottawa, Canada. He had a talk about Proactive Wireless Networks with OpenBSD. (http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20060118-01 Reyk Flöter 2006-01-18 Reyk Flöter has been invited to the annual Spring Conference of the UKUUG in Durham, England. He will talk about proactive Wireless LAN with OpenBSD, the latest progress and plans for the future. (http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2006/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20051012-01 Reyk Flöter 2005-10-12 Reyk Flöter writes on undeadly.org, the OpenBSD journal, in the article "Proactive wireless networks with hostapd(8)" about his development OpenBSD hostapd. .vantronix offers complete WLAN-solutions based on these efforts. (http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20051008150710) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050906-01 Reyk Flöter 2005-09-06 There will be a tutorial from Reyk Flöter on the Main European BSD Conference, the EuroBSDCon. The tutorial is about Wireless LAN setups with OpenBSD and is scheduled for November, 25th. This year the EuroBSDCon will be hosted in the University of Basel in Switzerland. (http://2005.eurobsdcon.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050823-01 Reyk Flöter 2005-08-23 Reyk Flöter has been invited to the annual conference of the AUUG in Sydney, Australia. He will have a talk about about Wireless LAN support in OpenBSD, the latest state and future plans. (http://auug.org.au/events/2005/auug2005/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050806-00 David Berghoff 2005-08-06 The Open Source Tag 2005 will be held the first time this year on the 27th September at the EXPOWAL in Hannover. Focus of the conference are solutions and services with Open Source in the business case. The topics covered by speeches and exhibitors are wide spread and come from the Open Source world. More information is available on the conference website (only in German). (http://www.opensourcetag.de/2005/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050706-00 David Berghoff 2005-07-06 The Libre Software Meeting (RMLL) is again taking place this year from the 5th to 9th July in Dijon France. If you are interested to meet us please stop by at the OpenBSD booth or schedule a match making talk. (http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050531-00 David Berghoff 2005-05-31 From the 6th to the 11th June .vantronix will exhibit at this years Interpolice in Hall 27 Booth D25. Please visit us at our booth and attend to our daily talks on 11 and 15 o'clock about "Realizing IT-Security with Open Source Software". (/bin/flyer_interschutz_vswnds.pdf) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050514-01 Reyk Flöter 2005-05-14 Reyk Flöter has been invited to the annual BSD conference BSDCan in Ottawa, Canada. He had a talk about Wireless LAN support in OpenBSD. (http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050503-02 David Berghoff 2005-05-03 In cooperation with the VSWNDS .vantronix is exhibitor on the first IT-Security day in Lower-Saxony which takes place on the 24th May 2005 in Hannover. Visit us at our booth or attend to the speech about IT-Security aspects of small- and middlesized companys. (http://www.vswnds.de/Sicherheitstag.pdf) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050503-01 David Berghoff 2005-05-03 On Sunday the 8th May David Berghoff is talking about the aspects of secure software development on the example of OpenBSD. The sIT2005 event is organized the first time this year at the university of Göttingen. (http://sit.projectai.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050406-03 David Berghoff 2005-04-06 The next regular meeting of the EICAR takes place on the 11th April in Darmstadt at Computer Associates. (http://www.eicar.org/wlan) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050406-02 David Berghoff 2005-04-06 Reyk Floeter is talking about Wireless LAN security at this years USER conference 2005 from the AUGE e.V. The topic of the event is "IT-Security - who cares". (http://www.auge.de/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050406-01 David Berghoff 2005-04-06 This years eBusiness-Day takes place at the AWD arena on the 9th April. The motto of the event is "eBusiness secured - Dont be the odd one out". (http://www.hannover.ihk.de/ebusinesstag2005.htm) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050309-02 David Berghoff 2005-03-09 There is a round table meeting about "IT-Security / Mobile Security" on Tuesday 15th March at Hall 9 Booth C21. Reyk Floeter will be the moderator and chairman of this round table. (http://www.futurematch.cebit.de/p_welcome.php) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050309-01 David Berghoff 2005-03-09 On Saturday 12th March Reyk Floeter will be speaking about WLAN security at this years Heise Forum for Security and IT-Law. The speech takes place at 15.00 o'clock in Hall 5 Booth E38. (http://www.heise.de/veranstaltungen/2005/ho_cebit/programm_12.shtml) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050302-01 David Berghoff 2005-03-02 The next Information and Communication forum will be at Thursday 10th March in Hannover. The event is organized by hannoverimpuls in cooperation with the EICAR and takes place at the Expo Plaza Hannover. The topic of this forum is "IT-Security - added value or unvoidable expenditure?" If you want to visit us please come along at our booth. More information is available in the agenda. (http://www.vantronix.de/bin/Eicar-finaldruckversion.pdf) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050216-02 David Berghoff 2005-02-25 On the 27th February Reyk Floeter will be at the FOSDEM to give a speech about Wireless LAN. The speech will cover the enhanced WLAN-support in the upcoming release 3.7 of OpenBSD "because it has to be free". (http://reyk.atexit.net/fosdem/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20050216-01 Reyk Flöter 2005-02-16 Reyk Flöter will talk at the annual spring meeting of the German Unix User Group on February 24th, 2005. The speech will cover the enhanced WLAN-support in the upcoming release 3.7 of OpenBSD "because it has to be free". (http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ffg2005/abstracts.html#3_7_2) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20041210-02 Reyk Flöter 2004-12-10 The official launch of the IuK Branch Forum of hannoverimpuls will be subsequent to the Kick-off Meeting of the "EICAR Task Force on Wireless LAN Security". The first IuK-Forum will be focussed on the problems and solutions around the topic Wireless LAN Security including lectures and a panel discussion with guests from business and science. More information is available in the agenda. (http://www.hannoverimpuls.com/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20041210-01 Reyk Flöter 2004-12-10 The "EICAR Task Force on Wireless LAN Security" will be founded in Hannover on January 20th, 2005. The Kick-off Meeting will be used to discuss the initial roadmap and the next practical steps and as an official meeting of members and the press. (http://wlan.eicar.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20041102-01 Jann Fischer 2004-11-02 In cooperation with the Association for Security in the Economy Lower-Saxony (VSWNds), the .vantronix | secure system GmbH hosts a conference about security in Wireless LANs on November 11th, 2004. In addition to the technical security measures, the conference will also deal with the legal aspects of the technology. The place for the conference will be the headquarters of the IHK Hannover. Additional information (in German language) can be found in the conference agenda. (http://www.vantronix.de/bin/WLAN-Tagung.pdf) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040913-01 David Berghoff 2004-09-13 Since early September .vantronix is an official member of the Association for Security in the Economy Lower-Saxony (VSWNDS). In cooperation with the VSWNDS a workshop about WLAN Security is planned for the 11. November 2004 at the IHK Hannover. Further information about the discussed topic will be available in time on the VSWNDS and our homepage. (http://www.vswnds.de/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040811-01 Reyk Flöter 2004-08-11 .vantronix will be present in the IT-SecurityArea at Systems 2004, which takes place from October 18th to 22nd in Munich (Germany) with an own exhibition stand. In hall B2, booth 517, we will present an overview of our services and of course are looking forward to personal conversations with you. Furthermore, we will participate in the forums of the IT SecurityArea through speeches to the topic of mobile security. (http://www.it-security-area.de/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040805-01 Rouven Flöter 2004-08-05 The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004, from October 26th to 28th in Frankfurt/Main is the european information- and opinion platform for Open Source businness solutions. Here, IT decision makers and Linux professionals will find everything about the newest Open Source solutions, developments and trends for businness and governments. .vantronix | secure systems GmbH will present AMSEL together with it's cooperation partner SSV Software Systems at this event, in hall 4, booth D24. (http://www.linuxworldexpo.de/linux_messe.php?lang=en) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040801-01 Reyk Flöter 2004-08-01 The European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research (EICAR) foundet a Task Force on the critical topic Wireless LAN Security. The Task Force will be focussed on analysis and research of existing security protocols and -standards as well as new alternatives. Furthermore, important goals are to develop a "Best Practise"-guide idependently from any manufacturers and comitees and to develop useable strategies and solutions in a dialog with experts from industry, economy and the academical and free sector. Chairman of the Task Force is Reyk Flöter, founder and managing director of .vantronix | secure systems. He expressed the concepts and topics of the Task Force in a mission statement regarding his long experiences in the area of Wireless LAN Security. These are in addition to numerous lectures and consulting of well-known customers open source projects like the Wireless LAN Security Framework (WLSec) and the WaveHAN project. (http://www.eicar.org/wlan/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040513-01 David Berghoff 2004-05-13 .vantronix will be on .the 'Linux Tag 2004' (June 23th-26th) at the fair- and congress center in Karlsruhe. This event is the largest fair in the area of Linux and Open Source in Europe. We are going to present among other things AMSEL, the new secure embedded Linux distribution. (http://www.linuxtag.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040504-01 Thomas Kiene 2004-05-13 .vantronix becomes a member of the EICAR (European Institute for Computer Antivirus Research). (http://www.eicar.org/) http://www.vantronix.com/news/archive/#news-20040210-01 Thomas Kiene 2004-02-10 SSV Embedded Systems and .vantronix are launching a linux project specialized on security and targeting embedded platforms. (http://www.vantronix.com/research/amsel/)