NCSA announces new Certified Firewall Products; Expands membership in Firewall Product Developers Consortium; Establishes criteria for Version 2.0 Certification Testing.

CARLISLE, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1996--The National Computer Security Association (NCSA) has announced the latest results of firewall certification testing (Version 1.0) at NCSA Labs.

The seven firewall developers and their products which have successfully completed this testing: -0-

1.  Digital Equipment Corp. -- AltaVista(TM) Tunnel for Windows NT
2.  Secure Computing Corp. -- Sidewinder(TM) Firewall - Release 2.2
3.  Cisco Systems Inc. -- Cisco Pix(TM) Firewall 2.7.8
4.  Network-1 Software and Technology -- Firewall/Plus(TM) V. 1.1-4
5.  Ascend Communications Inc. -- Secure Access Firewall Product
Release 4.6C
6.  3Com Corp. -- NetBuilder(TM) 9.1
7.  Abhiweb Corp. -- AFS2000(TM) Secure Internet Access Server

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These newly certified firewall products raise the number of NCSA Certified Firewall Products from 16 to 23. The original 16 certified products are: -0-

 1.  Atlantic Systems Group -- TurnStyle(TM) Firewall System
 2.  Secure Computing Corp. -- BORDERWare(TM)
 3.  Milkyway Networks Inc. -- Black Hole(TM)
 4.  CheckPoint Software Technologies Inc. -- CheckPoint Firewall-1
 5.  Digital Equipment Corp. -- AltaVista(TM) Firewall
 6.  Global Technology Associates Inc. -- GFX Internet Firewall System
 7.  CyberGuard -- CyberGuard(TM) Firewall
 8.  IBM -- Secured Network Gateway
 9.  Livermore Software Labs, International -- PORTUS(TM) Version 2
10. ON Technology Corp. -- ON Guard(TM)
11. Raptor Systems Inc. -- Eagle(TM)
12. Technologic Inc. -- Interceptor(TM) Firewall System
13. Trusted Information Systems Inc. -- Gauntlet(TM) Internet Firewall
Ver. 3.1
14.  RADGUARD Ltd. -- CryptoWall(TM)
15.  Sun Microsystems -- SunScreen(TM) SPF-100
16.  NEC Technologies -- PrivateNet(TM) 1.0.1A

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NCSA "Certified" Firewall products are tested against a standardized and evolving suite of attacks while allowing desired business functions to be accomplished. Manufacturers with Internet firewall products meeting these standards are authorized to use the "NCSA Certified" logo for marketing and other promotional purposes.

NCSA Firewall Product Certification provides assurance to end-users that a certified Firewall product can be configured to protect an internal network against a suite of current threats tested by NCSA while allowing important business functions to operate effectively in an Intranet/Internet environment.

Certification means that NCSA, acting as an independent laboratory, has verified that a firewall product meets the current published certification criteria. Information on firewall certification testing procedures, as well as products which are currently certified, is posted on the NCSA Web pages (http://www.ncsa.com).

New Firewall Product Developer Consortium Members:

NCSA is pleased to welcome the following firewall product developers as new members of the NCSA Firewall Product Developers Consortium (FWPD):

-- 3Com Corp., of Santa Clara, Calif.

-- Abhiweb Corp., of Sunnyvale, Calif.

-- Ascend Communications Inc., of Columbus, Ohio

-- Cisco Systems Inc., of San Jose, Calif.

-- Intel Corp., of Hillsboro, Ore.

-- Network-1 Software and Technology Inc., of Grand Prairie, Texas

-- Global Internet, of San Mateo, Calif.

-- Proteon Inc., of Westborough, Mass.

With these additions, the consortium now consists of 30 members. The other members of the consortium include:

-- ANS CO+RE Systems Inc., of Reston, Va.

-- Atlantic Systems Group, of Fredericton, N.B. Canada

-- CheckPoint Software Technologies Inc., of Lexington, Mass.

-- Digital Equipment Corp., of Maynard, Mass.

-- CyberGuard Corp., of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (formerly Harris Computer Systems Corp.)

-- Global Technology Associates Inc., of Orlando, Fla.

-- IBM, with headquarters in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

-- Internet Security Systems, of Atlanta

-- Livermore Software Labs, International, of Houston

-- Milkyway Networks Inc., of Ottawa, Canada

-- National Security Agency

-- NEC Internet Business Unit, with headquarters in San Jose, Calif.

-- Network Systems, of Minneapolis

-- ON Technology Corp., of Cambridge, Mass.

-- RADGUARD Ltd., of Tel Aviv, Israel

-- Raptor Systems Inc., of Waltham, Mass.

-- Secure Computing Corp., of Roseville, Minn.

-- Sterling Software, of Irving, Texas

-- Sun Microsystems, with headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

-- Technologic Inc., of Atlanta

-- Telos, of Herndon, Va.

-- Trusted Information Systems Inc., of Rockville, Md.

NCSA Version 2.0 Firewall Certification Criteria:

NCSA has announced revised certification testing criteria from its original Version 1.0 to the new Version 2.0. Firewall testing covering services provided to external users have been expanded to include service networks (e.g., FTP and HTTP access to servers located on service networks). Also, testing of support for secure web protocol such as SSL has been incorporated in the new version.

The revised criteria also addresses security concerns in remote firewall management. Additionally, NCSA continues to incorporate new firewall attack methodologies into the firewall certification program. These and other new criteria ensure that NCSA Firewall Certification testing remains vigorous and pro-active, with an emphasis on mitigating security threats which continually emerge from known and unknown sources.

The complete listing of NCSA Certified Firewall Products, members of the NCSA Firewall Product Developer's Consortium, and Version 2.0 of NCSA Firewall Testing criteria can be downloaded from the NCSA Web Site at http://www.ncsa.com/fpfs/fwpress2.html .

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