Secure Computing Achieves OPSEC Certification From Check Point

Published 20th December 2007

Secure Computing TrustedSource Technology Certified to Enable Check Point Customers to Drop Malicious Emails at the Gateway Resulting in Enhanced Security, Spam Mitigation, and Bandwidth Saving...

San Jose, CA--- December 18, 2007—Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company today announced that it has achieved Check Point OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification, seamlessly interfacing its industry-leading global reputation system, TrustedSource™, with the market leading Check Point VPN-1 Power gateway.

“Customers can now take full advantage of Secure Computing’s industry-leading global reputation intelligence by simply interfacing the TrustedSource module with Check Point,” said Atri Chatterjee, senior vice president at Secure Computing. “The powerful combination of TrustedSource and VPN-1 yields significant benefits such as easy installation, policy management and overall security.”

TrustedSource is the world’s leading source for intelligence and evaluates the reputation of Web entities and communications in real time, based on behavior. Like a credit agency provides credit scores to enable reliable commerce, TrustedSource provides reputation scores for IPs, domains and URLs. Using this real-time scoring via the TrustedSource module, Check Point VPN-1 Power can allow organizations to drop connections from malicious sources in order to prevent security threats such as spam and phishing, reclaim bandwidth and reduce server processing.

Check Point VPN-1 Power gateway provides comprehensive, accelerated security and remote connectivity for enterprise network environments. When interfaced with VPN-1 Power, the new TrustedSource module enables customers to eliminate 90 percent of incoming spam and malicious email right at the gateway, providing enhanced security and bandwidth savings.

"Enterprises today desire interoperability to leverage multiple solutions in their IT infrastructure," said Bob Egner, vice president of Product Management for Check Point. "OPSEC Certification of Secure Computing's TrustedSource module for Check Point VPN-1 Power ensures that our joint customers can benefit from a powerful combination of technologies to defend against the myriad of threats they face each day.”