Identity 1.0 from Trusted Network Technologies is an identity-based access control product that controls access to critical assets and applications in real time at the packet-level, by allowing or denying individual session requests based on policy and the transparent two-factor identity of the requestor.

Users not authorized are unable to connect to a computer system protect by the Trusted Network Technologies product.

The product employs a patent-pending technology that enables IP protocol packets to carry a unique identifier within them.

"There has been a lot of focus on the perimeter. But if you want to stop problems on your network you have to control access to your critical network components," says Stephen Gant, CEO of Trusted Network Technologies. "Most people recommend strong two-factor authentication, but when you turn to that you run into the complex world of tokens and your are including the end user in the act of security."

Identity has three components. I-Host is a lightweight, stack-level driver with a 23 Kb footprint. It embeds a transparent two-factor identify, based on the user ID and the system ID. It sits below the user space on the client machine, working on the transformation of identity packages.

"Once you have enabled the end user, he no longer participates in the act of security. He is transmitting normal IP packages over the network," says Steven Russ, executive vice president of marketing for the company.

The second component, I-Gateway, is an inline appliance, available to support 10Mb-100Mb bit/sec or 1Gb bit/sec line speeds. The third component, I-Manager, is a browser-based user interface for configuration, reporting, auditing and management.

Version 1.0 is supported on Windows; later versions will support a range of Unix variants.

Pricing for Identity 1.0 begins at $15,000 to get 25 users up and running with the 10/1000 I-Gateway appliance and I-Manager. Pricing after that is base on the number of user and the number of enforcement points.