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Secure Computing Corp. - Security
Software - Category Directory
4810
Harwood Road,
San Jose, California 95124
(408) 979-6100
www.securecomputing.com
Sales
$76
million
Business Description
We use our broad expertise in security technology to develop network
security solutions that create trusted connections between organizations and
their customers, partners and employees. Our products are designed to allow
these users to exchange critical information safely, helping them
confidently build their businesses. Our customers operate some of the
world’s largest and most sophisticated businesses, and include prominent
organizations in banking, financial services, healthcare,
telecommunications, manufacturing, public utilities, and federal and local
governments. The premise of our security philosophy, which we build into
each product line, is that the right people need to be connected with
necessary network and application resources, and the wrong people need to be
denied connections. We work closely with our customers to provide them with
reliable access control and innovative new features that are comprehensive,
easy to manage and highly effective in securing the connections between
people, applications and networks.
The global reach of the Internet has made it possible to connect employees,
partners and customers worldwide, allowing organizations the unprecedented
ability to communicate and exchange information. Along with this
extraordinary capability comes the need to secure the sharing of information
resources at every connection point. Our technologies help our customers
achieve this security and implement a balance between security and
accessibility according to their policy objectives. Our objective is to
solve the most difficult network security challenges our customers face by
not only addressing risk factors of today, but future risks as well.
In order to provide the best market solutions, we have formed partnerships
with a number of companies in several different capacities. These
partnerships include members of our Secure Alliance program, resellers,
systems integrators, and companies that include our solutions in their
product offerings. These companies include, for example: Alternative
Technologies, Blue Coat Systems, Cisco, Computer Associates, Crossbeam, CSC,
Dell, EDS, F5 Networks, Finjan, Hewlett-Packard, Network Appliance, NetOne
Systems, Northrop Grumman, Radware, SafeNet, Sun PS, Tech Data, Vertex Link,
Volera, Wavecrest Computing, Westcon, and 3Com.
Secure Computing Solutions
Our products provide complete solutions separately and they also work well
together for a more comprehensive, unified, and centrally managed solution
to meet the goals and needs of our customers. Our solutions are comprised of
products that integrate well with each other, and which are easy to use,
administer, and manage across different systems as they grow. Our products’
ability to scale as the infrastructure or number of users grows has always
been, and continues to be, one of our hallmarks. Our architecture allows
security functions to be easily embedded into other platforms. Our solutions
run on a variety of platforms and integrate well with other enterprise
solutions, making our products a safe and economical choice for
organizations worldwide.
People outside organizations are accessing applications and networks through
VPNs, dialup lines, and Web browsers to use network resources and
applications, and people inside networks are venturing out to use the
Internet. Accomplishing mission-critical tasks depends on securing the
connections between all parties involved—making sure that the right people
are connected with the necessary network and application resources they
require, and also making sure that the wrong people are denied connections.
Our primary objectives are to ensure that the right people have access to
the right information on the applications and networks they use, and at the
same time, to secure the information that is relayed through those network
connections.
Sidewinder® G2 Firewall™
In January 2003, we released our next-generation firewall, branded the
Sidewinder G2 Firewall, and the Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager™, a
complementary new firewall management appliance that delivers single-point
policy management for hundreds of distributed Sidewinder G2 firewalls. This
next-generation firewall has been built from a combination of key features
from both the Sidewinder and Gauntlet application firewalls. Both the
Sidewinder G2 Firewall and the Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager appliances
are integrated with our most trusted security operating system, SecureOS®.
In 2003, Sidewinder G2 Firewall achieved the Common Criteria EAL4+
certification. This certification meets the Application Layer Firewall
Protection Profile, a United States National Security Agency benchmark for
firewalls. This level was achieved against 29 security functional
requirements, making Sidewinder G2 the first Common Criteria certified
product that both met a protection profile and included the operating system
at the EAL4 level. At that time, no other product on the market was
evaluated under the same comprehensive certification as our Sidewinder G2
Firewall.
In February 2004, we released the Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance. The new
Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance line includes eleven models and is an
all-in-one security product delivering consolidated control and management
over multiple security functions. The new line includes our industry-leading
application firewall/VPN software as a key component, along with a wide
variety of additional new security capabilities. Four of the new Application
Defenses™ security modules in the Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance are sold
as customer-selected options. These options include: anti-virus, anti-spam,
SSL termination and clientless VPN, and employee Web browsing controls.
The multi-functional Sidewinder G2 Security Appliances reduce the number of
systems that IT professionals need to buy, deploy, learn, manage, update,
and depend upon for their critical perimeter security needs. This strategy
of delivering consolidated security functions on one platform is in line
with the latest industry trends.
SafeWord® Products
Many businesses require remote access to network resources, therefore
verifying the identity of the remote users is vital for security.
Organizations are increasingly realizing the many vulnerabilities of
passwords, and they need strong authentication systems that are easy to
install and deploy, simple to manage, and able to grow with their needs.
SafeWord products are designed to meet these needs. Positively identifying
users through strong authentication, SafeWord products help ensure that only
the right people can make connections to an organization’s trusted
applications and networks. SafeWord software and SafeWord tokens offer
unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and ease of use, and are used by
thousands of organizations and millions of end users worldwide.
• SafeWord PremierAccess™ positively identifies users and controls access to
Web, VPN, wireless, Citrix, Oracle, Windows, remote dial-up, and other
network applications. SafeWord PremierAccess increases an organization’s
security with a system that is easy to manage and deploy. SafeWord tokens,
among the most reliable in the industry, provide one-time passwords that
eliminate the vulnerabilities of fixed passwords. Other supported
authenticators include software tokens, smart cards, digital certificates,
USB tokens, biometrics, and MobilePass™, which sends a one-time passcode to
a cell phone, pager, or wireless PDA. SafeWord PremierAccess includes
powerful capabilities—such as the Universal Web Agent, user self-enrollment,
and brokered authentication to external systems.
• SafeWord RemoteAccess™ is designed to make strong authentication simple,
with quick, easy installation options. SafeWord RemoteAccess provides a
complete solution for strong authentication, designed to protect VPN,
RADIUS, Citrix, and Outlook Web Access connections. Tight integration and
simplified management with SafeWord tokens and Active Directory reduce the
complexity and cost of adding strong authentication to an organization’s
environment.
• Other SafeWord products. We offer SafeWord solutions that are created and
branded for specific remote access products. These SafeWord solutions
positively identify users who access networks through Citrix MetaFrame,
Check Point VPNs, or Nortel Networks VPNs. Tight integration with existing
systems and databases makes user login quick and allows administrators to
easily manage tokens and user access.
Web Filtering Products
With the acquisition of N2H2, Inc. in October 2003, we further solidified
our position as one of the world’s leading suppliers of Web filtering. We
now sell and support three best-of-breed Web filtering products: SmartFilter®,
Bess®, and Sentian™, and offer customers 30 different Web filtering options.
Our customers can chose to run filtering on the same server as the firewall,
proxy server or caching system (co-host); they can elect to run filtering on
a separate server (Off-Box); or they can purchase a platform from one of our
OEM partners with SmartFilter integrated (On-Box).
• SmartFilter, our flagship filtering application, is an enterprise Web
filtering solution. SmartFilter continues to be the market-leading standard
for Web filtering on edge or caching devices through original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) relationships and is currently deployed in over 40% of
the Fortune 100 companies. SmartFilter’s simple software plug-in
architecture provides OEMs a way to quickly and easily integrate a high
demand, revenue-generating, capability – Web filtering – directly into their
solutions. We believe we are the only company with OEM relationships for
On-Box™ filtering with all three of the top caching appliance vendors – Blue
Coat, Cisco, and Network Appliance, as well as other industry-leading
vendors such as Computer Associates.
• Bess is a Web filtering solution offering customers the ability to deploy
an off-box filtering solution in conjunction with leading firewall and
caching devices including Cisco Pix and Microsoft ISA. Bess is currently
installed in approximately 40% of the K-12 schools across the United States.
• Sentian is targeted at the corporate market and is primarily an off-box
filtering solution. We continue to offer Sentian to customers whose platform
of choice will not allow filtering to be hosted On-Box.
Embedded Firewall
Our Embedded Firewall technology is commercially available through 3Com. By
embedding access control technology inside the network interface cards,
independent of the host operating system, the embedded firewall offers a
scalable, tamper-resistant, and non-by-passable security solution to manage
access control inside the corporate perimeter firewall. The 3Com Embedded
Firewall provides the next-generation of secure e-business connectivity,
allowing employees, partners, and suppliers to access only the information
they require.
The embedded firewall uses a centrally managed architecture. The
user-friendly graphical user interface is designed to allow administrators
to quickly and easily define access control policies on the Embedded
Firewall Policy Server. This flexible, scalable solution allows
administrators to securely allow access to resources required by employees,
partners, and suppliers, without sacrificing the integrity and
confidentiality of the corporate networks. The product is available for
desktop, laptop, and server environments.
Security and Support Services
Our services are designed to ensure that our customers make optimal use of
our products when controlling access to their e-business systems. We provide
a life cycle of support and services: Solution Planning, Solution
Implementation, and Solution Support.
• Solution Planning. Our Security Services offerings include a variety of
options for rapid assessment of a company’s current network architecture and
evaluation of the current status of network security. We compare this
information to the company’s business needs, both current and future, to
help them plan a scalable, secure e-commerce solution. In addition, we offer
security policy services that help customers prepare a policy and plan that
transfers their security policy from paper to practice. We provide the
following services: network architecture security assessment; security
policy assessment and development; and AAA system security assessment.
• Solution Implementation. Our Network Services team offers a full range of
rapid-deployment integration services and training to assist our customers
through implementation and integration of our products. Both the
configuration process of a security system and the security products
themselves, by their nature, may have an impact on several areas within a
customer’s network. Accordingly, we offer a complete package of product
integration assistance to help ensure our customers maximize network uptime
and maintain productivity during the process. We provide the following
services: product implementation; product audit and configuration; and
product training.
As part of our Network Services training program, we provide extensive
product and network training on-line with our Web-based training, through
our tutor assisted training at our training facilities, and on-site
worldwide for customers and partners. These services help our customers
understand basic and advanced administration rules and tools that enable
partners to configure, integrate, and maintain our products as part of a
comprehensive e-business solution.
• Solution Support - SecureSupport™. We offer industry leading live answer
support services. SecureSupport has a team of technical support engineers
that provide customer support around the clock via e-mail, the Web, or
telephone. Service options are tailored for each of our network security
products. Customers can select the SecureSupport option that best meets
their needs.
We designed and offer SecureSupport Online, a tool to assist our customers
and channel partners with any problem they may experience with any of our
products. Through this process, technical expertise is offered online
through a searchable knowledge base, viewable support history, and our
customer support newsletters. Product patches and release notes can also be
downloaded.
We offer our customers the option to purchase software support and upgrade
service for an annual fee. We provide software updates and technical support
through this program.
Customers
Our customers operate some of the largest and most sensitive networks and
applications in the world. Our partners and customers include the majority
of the Dow Jones Global 50 Titans and numerous organizations in the Fortune
1000, as well as banking, financial services, healthcare,
telecommunications, manufacturing, public utilities, schools, and federal
and local governments. We have close relationships with the largest agencies
of the United States government, both federal and local. Our customer list
also includes numerous international organizations and foreign governments.
Overseas, our customers are concentrated primarily in Europe, Japan, China,
the Pacific Rim, and Latin America.
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