Lightspeed upgrades network security suite

Enhancements include easier, more flexible admin functions, and a feature that lets end-users manage their own anti-spam blacklists

Network security specialist Lightspeed Systems Europe has announced new enhancements to flagship security suite Total Traffic Control (TTC), featuring improved admin and message management capabilities.

The new Policy Management Engine (PME) is designed to make it easier to manage the product's various functions, which include spam blocking, web content filtering and anti-spyware capabilities, according to Lightspeed's technical director Earnie Kramer.

"PME ties all this together so you can have unified policies across all these different things," he explained. "You can manage them all at once and tie them into Active Directory."

A Tiered Administration feature, meanwhile, is for organisations that want to separate their admin functions so that different people can control different parts of the product, and access different reports, he added.

The enhancements also include the ability for end-users to alter their own blacklists for spam email, and a TTC Identification Service that links IP addresses to PC users.

"This is something a lot of network monitoring software falls down on," said Kramer. "If you're using reports to take HR action, they need to know without doubt it was that user."