Avocent Corporation reportedly announced that it will be displaying its security enabled solutions that it believes significantly simplify the current networking scenario and also addresses government concerns about ever increasing security driven IT costs at the Federal Office Systems Exposition 2009 in Washington D.C.

Importantly, its devices support the national security sensitive and mandatory Common Access Card (CAC) required by all government and defence related personnel as per the Homeland Security Presidential Directive number 12. CAC has similar dimensions to a credit card, has an embedded integrated circuit and is issued by the United States Department of Defence (DoD) for general identification gaining access to DoD authorized facilities such as computers, networks and gaining entry in secured zones. It also encrypts, and signs via scripted code, national security linked emails.

“Security has become one of the most important issues within the IT community. Given the growth of information over the last several decades, the content of the data stored on these distributed devices has far-reaching implications if ever lost or stolen,” said Benjamin Grimes, Chief Technology Officer, Avocent (News - Alert).

Avocent will be showcasing its ability to manage an environment with virtualized components such as a client server attached to the cloud network. These added dimensions of complexity can be easily handled, it claims, via its IT process management and assistance enabling products.

Its products mostly achieve reduced power consumption by using the daisy chain method, which requires each added device to be connected to the last one in a chain of connections that predominantly use cost effective direct current to drive the circuitry.

On display is the Avocent SwitchView SC desktop switch that has a critical USB lock down characteristic to prevent opportunistic data theft via USB ports. Only keyboards, mice and CAC readers are allowed access to the computer or network device. It also has covert internal sensors that detect, record and alert intrusions to a central security server.

The Avocent DSR Keyboard Video display and Mouse (KVM) over IP switch enables network administrators to remotely control network devices to upload patches, new applications, and perform background maintenance work without causing downtime.

Other products on view: DSView 3 for data center management; the HMX extender system to substitute Desktop over IP with Video and Audio Support; and, LANDesk (News - Alert) Management Suite that allows asset life cycle management and desktop management.