Secure Computing introduces BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0, a suite of third-generation firewalls for enterprise networks; BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 features unique Web-based centralized management and high-performance security capabilities.

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1996--Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq:SCUR) today introduced BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0, a suite of third-generation firewalls that deliver advanced security, performance and management functions tailored to meet the needs of diverse enterprise network users.

The only turnkey, plug-and-play firewall and Internet gateway system in a single chassis, BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 is based on a security-optimized operating system. This establishes BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 as a high level security system, protecting privacy and information from external Internet hackers as well as corporate insiders. New BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 features include industry-leading Web-based remote management, advanced Virtual Private Network (VPN) functions and Secure Server Network (SSN) enhancements, among others.

Overcoming Six Key Security Concerns

Delivering a robust end-to-end security solution, Secure's new modular product suite addresses the six key requirements that customers and security experts are demanding for secure business-critical communications. In addition to air-tight security levels, those requirements include:

-- simplified, centralized management -- VPN encryption and authentication -- secure servers, particularly for public access server

environments -- increased performance -- comprehensive auditing and logging capabilities -- ease of use and modularity to meet diverse network requirements

Centralized Web-Based Management

First to leverage the enhanced security and simplicity of JAVA for Web-based firewall management, BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 provides platform-independent, centralized administration of its new enterprise-wide firewall family. BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0's JAVA-based platform provides an independent GUI (graphical user interface) that enables customers to manage and configure firewalls, anywhere on the network, from their own management stations. This unique approach overcomes four key problems with firewall management solutions today: lack of integration with current management platforms, lack of real-time reporting, inefficiency of console-based security solutions, and security risks.

Supporting Windows NT, Macintosh, DOS or UNIX workstations, the BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 leverages Netscape Navigator 2.0 to provide highly secure remote management of firewalls using HTML and JAVA in an encrypted and secure management link. JAVA applets, which continually poll the firewall for data, provide real-time dynamic management functions as well as increased security through stepped-up querying and authentication functions.

The Firewall Server's simplified Web-based management capabilities complement the product's widely recognized ease of installation capabilities, which reduces installation time by four times that of alternative security solutions. In BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0, the company has also enhanced its auditing and logging capabilities to provide greater log detail and more advanced report generation tools, key functions for managing security in large enterprise networks. Enhancements enable administrators to track Internet access, time, and transfers as well as obtain and create reports for chargebacks and tracking.

Securing Virtual Private Network Communications

BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 provides public key encryption and dual authentication functions to address privacy and data integrity, key requirements of virtual private networks. Encryption allows organizations to eliminate the use of expensive leased lines by securely leveraging the Internet as a low-cost wide area network infrastructure. Encrypted tunnels over the Internet allow users to send information in encoded messages using the user's private key and the recipient's public key. Compliant with RSA-based encryption, BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 supports DES (Data Encryption Standard), triple DES and RC5 encryption standards.

BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 bolsters virtual private networking security with dual authentication functions to ensure that users seeking to establish connections to proxies are who they say they are. BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 authenticates users to the firewall through one-time passwords using CryptoCard or SecurID tokens. BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0's enhanced features provide authentication for all services in any direction (inbound, outbound, etc.) BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 will also support industry defacto IPSec specification for encryption and authentication.

BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 delivers advanced encryption and authentication capabilities at a flexible range of performance speeds, allowing customers to easily migrate to higher-speed encrypted data transfers as network requirements dictate. BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 supports encrypted data transfer speeds over 56 Kbps and T1 (1.54 Mbps) connections with future support for T3 (45 Mbps) connections. Secure's new product suite also features a series of engineering tasks that improve the performance and throughput of the firewall.

Enabling Secure Coexistence of Public Access Servers and the Internal Network

BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 provides a unique, highly secure solution to the customer dilemma of wanting to support public access servers, such as a WWW, without jeopardizing the internal network. BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 solves this problem with Secure Server Net, a third local area network segment that is both protected from the Internet and isolated from the internal network. The industry's only solution that integrates the functions of an internal router, external router bastion host and secure server area all in a single hardware system, the Firewall Server 4.0 uniquely provides this lock-tight security capability by eliminating the open space and configuration concerns between routers, servers and the firewall.

Implementing arbitrary servers on a protected local area network, the Secure Server Net runs independently of the internal network but from the outside appears to be running off the firewall. This architecture, combined with a segmented proxy server design, isolates potential hackers from the internal network and protects public access servers while preventing their ability to affect other services or penetrate beyond the firewall to the internal network.

In BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0, the company has optimized Secure Server Net to address high-end network requirements by allowing Multiple Network Address Translation, which allows companies to provide multiple addresses on the firewall to increase firewall scalability and response time while still completely hiding internal addresses from the outside world.

Third-Generation Firewall Suite Delivers Air Tight Security, Transparency and Modularity

Built upon Secure's impermeable security-optimized operating system, the BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 transcends legacy packet filter and Operating System (OS) shield firewalls by eliminating security loop holes present in solutions residing on stock operating systems. The product also delivers transparent proxy servers, eliminating the cost, error probability and security risks inherent in conventional log-in firewall solutions.

In addition to enhanced features and modularity, BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 provides expanded hardware support, including fully optimized PCI-based Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI and 100Base-T, to further support diverse enterprise network requirements.

Pricing/Availability

BorderWare Firewall Server 4.0 will be available in Q3 '96. The BorderWare Firewall Server ranges in price from $4,000 to $15,000. Free upgrades will be given to all customers who have a support contract.

About Secure Computing Corp.

Secure Computing recently announced its intent to merge with Border Network Technologies Inc. under the Secure Computing name. As the second largest network security company worldwide, Secure Computing's products now include: the complete BorderWare product line; Sidewinder Internet firewall; the LOCKout system to identify and authenticate remote users; the LOCK system to provide high-assurance, multilevel protection; information security consulting services; and its exclusive Security Alert Service to notify customers of viruses and other Internet security risks. Secure Computing has over 2000 customers worldwide including top U.S. government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, as well as small to mid-size corporations. Secure Computing's Web site is located at http://www.sctc.com. The BorderWare web site is at http://borderware.com.

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