Zero-hour Attack Protection.

Secure Computing Corp. experts in securing connections between people, applications, and networks, today unveiled its Zero-hour Attack Protechom (ZAP) security technology for the Sidewinder G2(r) Security Appliance. The latest release of the Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance is scheduled to ship in the first quarter of 2006, and differentiates Secure Computing from traditional firewall/UT-M products by stopping zero-hour attacks automatically without waiting for anti-virus or IPS signature updates.

ZAP technology is based upon the positive security model, which allows only legitimate network traffic and denies everything else. 'Negative model' security technologies like IPS gateways are extremely useful, but they allow everything through the gateway unless they recognize known viruses and attacks. The positive security model is therefore superior at preventing unknown attacks because it automatically eliminates exposure to many types of attacks-unknown as well as known. ZAP technology combines over 200,000 attack signatures with a positive security model for maximum protection. Secure Computing ZAP technology also includes other key defense-in-depth security techniques working simultaneously in the Sidewinder G2, including

* SecureOS self-defending platforms with patented Type Enforcement technology--a pre-eminent example of the positive security model

* Event monitoring, analysis, and notification using the Sidewinder G2(r) dashboard and Security Reporter

* Traditional signature-based attack protections, including over 200,000 threat signatures

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