IntruGuard Devices Partners with USDN to Provide Managed Security Services and Channel Sales.

USDN Network Security Expands Their Extensive Portfolio of Data Center Management, Penetration Testing, and IT Outsourcing Services to Include Security Services for Denial of Service and Other Intrusions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- IntruGuard Devices, Inc., a leading supplier of distributed denial of service (DDoS) firewall security appliances, today announces a partnership with USDN Network Security, a leading IT infrastructure auditing and managed security provider. This alliance will allow USDN to deploy, configure, and manage IntruGuard's Intrusion Gateway family of DDoS Firewalls for USDN's customer base. This combination of the industry's only dedicated hardware based DDoS Firewall with split-second response to a variety of intrusions and USDN's expert security services will further offer clients enhanced broad based security. The resulting benefits include fully outsourced IT administration, no capital expense, and proven security expertise. USDN will also offer value added reseller (VAR) services to those clients who desire to purchase and install the appliances themselves.

"IntruGuard Devices completes a very important offering that was missing from USDN, the ability to fully stop a DDoS attack on a client in seconds. We see a growing presence in large scale attacks and no other solution has the reaction time, performance, and accuracy of these security appliances," said Mr. Anthony Castillo, President of USDN Network Security. "We have evaluated alternatives and nothing comes close to these devices and provides for an economical deployment."

USDN provides services to over several thousand customers nationwide. Services include data center management, hosting facilities, disaster recovery planning, and outsourced IT and security services. As part of these services, network security is growing in importance and customers are expecting to obtain outsourced support as part of a comprehensive solution. With DDoS floods now exceeding 6000 per day according to Symantec's latest security report, customers are demanding protection from network floods. IntruGuard's solutions protect data at the ingress point of the attack from not just DDoS floods, but from protocol anomaly attacks, port, network and dark address scans, and other unwarranted traffic based assaults. By deploying and secure remote management of these appliances, USDN can protect the client network in real time with response times measured in seconds, not hours or days with competing schemes. Periodic reports and generation of event notifications are provided to the client as desired.

"USDN Network Security has one of the broadest arrays of solutions today with operations across the country and we are thrilled to be a partner," said Ashok Jain, President and co-founder of IntruGuard. "They have demonstrated success in outsourcing IT support and data hosting among other services. With their ability to fully service as well as sell our DDoS Firewall appliances, the client has more options to choose from. This appliance is fully complementary to their service offerings."

About the IntruGuard Devices IG Family

The IG200/2000/2200 family stands alone in their ability to fully and accurately protect a network from a host of flood-based intrusions. With a fully built-for-purpose design, the appliances can block attacks up to full duplex gigabit rates. Unlike other appliances, the speed and accuracy of the IG family is unaffected by the severity of the attack. Accuracy is ensured through a highly granular inspection of millions of traffic parameters, not the dozens in other approaches. Automatic traffic learning and dynamic updates of these parameters further improves accuracy with competing designs demanding manual intervention. Through the use of virtual identifiers (VID), unique to IntruGuard's architecture, traffic can be further segmented into multiple zones to further refine analysis and improve precision. These VIDs also minimize the need for duplicated network elements thereby cutting capital expenses. The IG design is stateful and stops illegal state transitions along with the blocking of port, network, and dark address scans; often precursors to an actual attack. Such appliances can be deployed at the Internet edge or deep within the network.

About USDN Network Security

Founded in 1987, USDN Network Security has been on the cutting edge of custom security solutions. Services include fully outsourced IT management for network administration and security. Internal and external network penetration evaluations are offered along with disaster recovery planning. Multiple data centers provide web-hosting services to a wide range of companies from small stores to enterprise level organizations. USDN is on the forefront of network security by authoring and designing their own tools and exploits in their own laboratory environments. USDN constantly researches operating system and application vulnerabilities that allow them to advise clients of risks and exposures before the knowledge becomes public. The company services several thousand clients nationwide.

About IntruGuard Devices, Inc.

IntruGuard's mission is to secure high-value Internet services and network infrastructure by delivering built-for-purpose systems for Intrusion and Day Zero DoS and DDoS Attack Prevention. The company serves e-commerce, web hosting/ISP, financial institutions, and managed service providers that are under pressure to deliver guaranteed network and application performance under all conditions. IntruGuard's IG200, IG2000, and IG2200 DDoS Firewall security appliances will defeat any intruder attempting to mount a Denial of Service attack on servers, subnets or networks. These appliances deliver wire speed performance, with a future-proof ASIC based architecture. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

http://www.IntruGuardDevices.com