Pursuing system environments that offer improved security and convenience

IT resources such as information networks currently represent an essential element of any business domain, regardless of organizational scale. While IT increases productivity and facilitates implementation of strategic management, it also increases business risks, including business stoppage due to unexpected system failures and damage to corporate reputations following customer information leaks or other incidents.

For these reasons, many enterprises and IT vendors have sought to strengthen the security of their corporate information systems. Traditionally, the primary security concerns in information systems involved measures against intrusion and attacks from outside the corporate network, including viruses and hackers. But recent growth in the use of notebook personal computers (PCs) and growing access to wireless LAN environments have increased the potential risk of unauthorized access from administrative blind spots, as well as from virus infections originating with notebook PCs brought to the office by employees. These trends have led to growing interest in internal security measures for corporate networks.

The need to implement business process reengineering through the use of advanced information networks is also growing. For example, more enterprises are introducing IP telephony services, taking advantage of various corporate IP resources, including broadband access lines and LANs. Enterprises first introduced IP telephony services to reduce communication costs. But in recent times, they have increasingly sought to implement new solutions by integrating telephony services and computers.

Internal security and VoIP as pillars supporting security solutions

In response to these increasingly sophisticated enterprise needs, Hitachi Cable now provides a diverse range of IT solutions based on its own network-related devices, which it combines with products and services provided by industry-leading partners in and out of Japan.

To address the issue of internal security, for example, Hitachi Cable offers PC quarantine LAN, a solution based on the EnSEC concept (Enforcement for Secure Connectivity). The solution combines Hitachi Cable's Apresia* Authentication Switch and applications provided by partner companies to block access from terminals that fail to meet security standards.

In the VoIP domain, Hitachi Cable offers the AquaVocal IP-PBX, a product that enables the easy construction of IP telephony networks in small- and mid-sized offices. Hitachi Cable also provides advanced VoIP solutions based on AquaVocal, taking advantage of CTI software and Click-to-Call.

* Apresia is a registered trademark of Hitachi Cable, Ltd.