6.   RAINBOW  LAUNCHED iGATE WEB SECURITY 

Rainbow executives, Humphrey Chan (VP of Rainbow Asia Pacific), Shawn Abbott (CEO of e-Security Group) and Paul Deakin (Manager of Sales Engineering) held a road show of the iGate web security product which started from India and ended in Japan.  The tour covered six countries.  They were here in Singapore on 22 Oct 2002 and held the launch at InterContinental Hotel, Bugis Junction.  The message from the launch is that Rainbow is out to make web security simple.  The iGate is plug and play and instantaneously the company rolling out the product gets two level authentication on the net. 

The story behind the iGate product is more interesting.  In fact, Rainbow was in the process of introducing B to E (Business to Employee) using VPN (Virtual Private Network) technology.  But it encountered lots of difficulty like configuring the firewall, ensuring that joint venture partners were able to get in Rainbow’s website as well as theirs.  The whole process was taking too long to implement.  When Rainbow switched to iGate, they implemented the iGate solution for 400 employees within a day. 

The problem is almost every system out there uses user name and password.  Typically a staff gets access to a number of systems with sometimes different user names and different passwords.  The problem comes when the staff leaves the company.  Sometimes, the administrator has a tough problem removing the user from all the various systems.  In many cases, ex-employees can still access systems with their old passwords. 

With iGate implementation for web security, all employees will carry a token.  Without the token at the browser end, there can be no access.  Should the employee lose the token, the iGate can be program to reject access for this token.  Also the communication between the browser and the iGate through the web is in SSL (Secured Socket Layer). 

In short, the iGate web security solution allows for SSL communication and token access through the net, implementation is a breeze.