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The Combex Value Proposition
Transitioning desktops in organizations with significant security requirements
to E and CapDesk brings the following benefits:
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Invulnerability to traditional over-the-wire cyberattack with viruses
and trojans
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Lower cost development of secure intranet systems
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Increased reliability both on the desktop and on the intranet
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Higher productivity of users currently trapped in security regimes
in which flexibility has been discarded and complexity has been introduced
in the name of enhanced security.
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Flexible yet secure, easy-to-maintain-centrally, browser-based applications
that deliver on the promise originally made by Java's applet security
in 1996 but never delivered.
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High-quality security, designed to cope with the complex interparty
security requirements of cross-organization relationships
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Maintainable security that allows cost-effective security auditing
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Lower cost of system maintenance, as requirements placed on the
firewalls become simpler.
Capability security improves reliability in general as well as robustness
in the face of malicious attack. The reason is simply that, in the absence
of POLA architectures, applications can clobber one another. An all too
classic example of this is a true story that happened to one of the Combex
founders: When installing Microsoft Visual J++ on his Windows system,
the installation process stomped the PGP plugin for his Outlook Express
email system. Presumably this happened because the installer overwrote
some small but critical setting in the Windows Registry, which is globally
available and globally editable. In a capability secure desktop, there
is no such globally editable registry. Installation places the configuration
settings of the individual program into a private space only readable
by that single application.
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