http://www.darkreading.com/security/client/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212901764 By Kelly Jackson Higgins DarkReading Jan 21, 2009 Home router security is getting a makeover with free security services aimed at simplifying and streamlining the protection of home users' computers, gaming, and other systems. OpenDNS, which offers a free recursive Domain Name Service (DNS) service with Web content filtering and phishing protection, has so far teamed with Netgear and 2Wire to roll its DNS, Web filtering, and antiphishing services into the vendors' home networking devices. Netgear earlier this month announced it will offer OpenDNS for free with several of its Wireless-N router models, and 2Wire said it would do the same with its new HomePortal GEM gateways for wireless networks, cordless phone DECT base stations, home control interfaces, and intelligent home servers. While Netgear calls the OpenDNS services it will add to its routers within the next few months Live Parental Controls because it filters unsafe or inappropriate content, the service is a combination of all of OpenDNS' services. "When consumers want security, it's not just for their PC. They want it for all of their digital devices," at home, including gaming systems and iPhones, says David Ulevitch, founder and now CTO at OpenDNS, which plans similar arrangements with other home networking vendors. But John Pescatore, vice president and research fellow at Gartner, says many ISPs already offer some form of parental controls, and that actual adoption of parental controls traditionally has not been not high. "But [OpenDNS] might make them easier to use," Pescatore says. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Jan 21 2009 - 23:09:21 PST
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