(6-Jan-11) Last year, David Lowenstein, chief executive officer of Toronto-based Federated Networks, told attendees at the Demo technology conference in Santa Clara, Calif., that Federated’s soon-to-be released Connect Secure software will offer “cybersecurity that actually secures – imagine that.”
Considering the security software field is dominated by established brands like Symantec and McAfee, Mr. Lowenstein was making a bold claim. But come this spring, Federated hopes to try to back it up when it releases Connect Secure.
Mr. Lowenstein, who co-founded Federated in 2005 along with Risu Na, says he believes the company can compete with bigger hitters based purely on its innovation, including its proprietary security protocol that, he claims, is more robust than the industry-standard secure sockets layer (SSL).