Array Networks Introduces Secure Web Traffic Management Platform For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses; Enterprise Platform Officially Released.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002

Array SP and New Array SP-C Compliant with HIPAA and

Graham-Leach-Bliley Acts

Array Networks, the pioneer in secure Web traffic management, announced its new Array SP-C (Security Proxy Compact), the secure Web traffic manager for small and medium-sized businesses. The Array SP-C platform delivers secure, SSL-accelerated, anytime-anywhere Web access via a common Web browser, enabling businesses to defend and police Web services and applications with trusted encryption, authentication, authorization and accounting. Array Networks also began shipping its recently announced Array SP secure Web traffic manager for the enterprise.

Designed for companies with less than 500 employees, the compact 1U Array SP-C enables employees, partners and customers to securely access Web applications regardless of their location, providing a convenient, centralized point of user administration, authentication, authorization and accounting. Array's integrated Web Resource Mapping technology tackles the challenge of enabling applications and content for secure access over the Internet or local area networks without the need to change anything on the servers themselves. Packets destined to the corporate LAN are fully encrypted from the client to the server offering true end-to-end security.

The Array SP and the Array SP-C effectively address specific security issues mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) by enabling secure, auditable exchange of Protected Health Information (PHI) between business partners. These secure Web traffic management platforms also enable compliance with the Graham-Leach-Bliley Act, which regulates the sharing of personal information about individuals who obtain financial products or services from financial institutions.

"Our Array SP platforms help organizations achieve HIPAA compliance by ensuring that only authorized individuals can access patient data. Texas Healthcare is a great example of a company using the Internet to securely deliver enterprise and customer applications via the high-performance, HIPAA-compliant Array SP," said Donald J. Massaro, president and chief executive officer of Array Networks. "The family of Array security proxies helps our customers to master the new performance challenges caused by Web services. The Array SP's built-in SSL acceleration is crucial because secure traffic would otherwise place a heavy demand on Web servers as they handle the compute-intensive encryption, decryption and authentication processes associated with SSL connections. "

"With the growth of Web services and increasing concerns over privacy and security, secure Web traffic management is an important emerging segment," said Richard Steinnon, Research Director, Network Security for Gartner. "Companies view SSL-accelerated security systems as the best way to offer Web-based applications and services across the Internet in a secure manner without impacting the responsiveness and performance of their networks and applications."

The Array SP's rich set of features, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) and plug-and-play installation ensure painless Web security. The intuitive Array user interface provides Wizard-based set up and comprehensive security auditing. The Array Pilot's(TM) Flight Deck provides an at-a-glance view of Array SP's status and activities. An LCD panel on the front panel of the system displays a variety of status indicators necessary for easy troubleshooting. The Array SP-C will be available in Q3 2002.

Array SP-C Feature Overview

1. SSL Acceleration and Encryption: Hardware-accelerated, 128-bit

SSL encryption for seamless operation with HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1,

and SMTP, POP3 and IMAP e-mail (available Q4'02).

2. SSL on the Inside: Array SP-C's unique SSL-on-the-inside

feature can decrypt SSL sessions to determine the appropriate

server, then re-encrypt the access request so that clear text

is never exposed even to the internal network (True end-to-end

security for Web-based networks).

3. Web Resource Mapping: Provides non-disruptive remote access

without the complexities and risks associated with replicating

and customizing applications within a conventional extranet.

4. Authentication: Single-point authentication using LDAP,

RADIUS, Active Directory, local user database or SecurID

(available Q4'02).

5. Authorization: Authorization is based on user, group, URL or

source IP.

6. Accounting: Client-side security certificates, certificate

revocation lists, secure SSH administration and comprehensive

security auditing exportable to log analysis tools.

7. Webwall Security: For protection against SYN-flood,

fragmentation, and DoS attacks; stateful packet inspection;

and single packet attack prevention. Array's Scalable

Permission Control(TM) rules engine supports thousands of

access control lists (ACLs) while never consuming more than

one percent of the Array SP's capacity.

8. Array Clustering Technology(TM): Clustering for two Array SP-C

platforms enables the Array system to provide secure access

for larger extranet or intranet environments.

9. Scalability: 25, 50 and 100 concurrent users

10. One-time URLs: Using its One-Time URL feature, administrators

don't need to worry about users logging in from airports or

even cyber-cafes since URLs are not reusable and automatically

time out. (Available Q4 '02)

11. Performance: 10/100 Copper Ethernet, 2 ports

12. User Interface: The Array Pilot delivers a flight deck full of

controls and monitors in the form of an ultra-friendly GUI.

The Flight Deck displays real-time server metrics much like a

dashboard.

13. Casing: 1U casing. Front-panel LCD for real-time status

tracking.

About Array Networks

Array Networks, developer of the industry's first fully integrated Web traffic management and security platforms, offers "Power tools for the Web" that dramatically reduce the complexity and risk of secure Web traffic management. Headquartered in Campbell, California with sales offices in China, Germany, Great Britain, France, Japan, Korea, Singapore and the U.S., Array Networks engineers and manufactures its Array products in the Silicon Valley and sells through direct and value-added channels. For more information, visit www.arraynetworks.net or call [phone].

Note to Editors: Array Networks is a registered trademark, and Array SP, Array Pilot, Array Clustering Technology and Scalable Permission Control are trademarks of Array Networks.