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November 6, 2001 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- TruSecure Corporation (trusecure.com), a security servicesprovider, today announced that its independent ICSA Labs division hascertified the first products within the PC Firewall program. The ICSA LabsPC Firewall Certification program is an independent and comprehensiveprocess that vigorously tests, assesses and validates the security of PCfirewalls relied upon by individual users in remote locations.
The first products to receive ICSA Labs PC Firewall Certification includeSymantec Corporation's (symantec.com) Norton Personal Firewall for Microsoft's Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT Workstation, and Windows 2000 Professional; Tiny Software's Tiny Personal Firewall for Windows 2000; and Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm Pro for Windows 2000.
"For many of our customers, the ICSA Labs Certification plays an importantrole in their evaluation process, knowing it validates the product'sperformance against the Lab's testing criteria," said Gregor Freund, CEO andco-founder of Zone Labs. "By submitting the ZoneAlarm Pro personal firewallto ICSA Labs for testing, we can further assure our customers that itcomplies with a leading industry-accepted security standards."
To achieve ICSA Labs PC Firewall Certification, a product must demonstratethat it can provide protection for the host it is deployed on under normalbusiness usage. The firewall must also offer functional control forconcurrently active local Ethernet and dialup networks; maintain consistentprotection across multiple successive dialup connections; protect commonexternal network attacks, provide for restriction of outgoing networkcommunication, and log events in a consistent and useful manner. Completecriteria may be found at icsalabs.com.
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