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January 11, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Secure Computing Corp. (securecomputing.com), a provider of access control solutions, announced yesterday a new firewall and VPN product, the Sidewinder Appliance.
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The Sidewinder appliance is built on Dell Computer Corp.’s rack-dense
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PowerEdge server platform. Through Dell’s Custom Factory Integration
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service, Dell will customize the hardware configuration, pre-install the
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software, and arrange for delivery of the Sidewinder Appliance to worldwide
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customers. The Sidewinder Appliance is available with Secure’s standard 24×7
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support and includes a 3-year next-business-day hardware warranty.
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“In today’s cost-conscious IT environments, customers are demanding that
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their security solutions be easy to install, administer and run at network
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speeds,” said Chris Christiansen, program vice president, Internet
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infrastructure and security software at IDC. “Secure Computing has delivered
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a firewall appliance that specifically targets the needs of today’s IT
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customers.”
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Newly refined Mail and DNS settings allow Sidewinder to drop seamlessly into
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any IP network at start-up, and because Sidewinder doesn’t require security
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patches for every new type of attack, it saves time associated with
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maintaining the software and operating system, the company says. A
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single-site or worldwide deployment of Sidewinders can be centrally managed
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from any Windows platform.
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Sidewinder has been accepted for the EAL4+ Common Criteria evaluation, which
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includes a U.S. National Security Agency penetration test and vulnerability
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analysis. EAL4+ is Common Criteria’s highest Evaluation Assurance Level
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available for certifying firewalls. Sidewinder’s hybrid architecture
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encompasses the entire range of firewall security mechanisms including
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stateful inspection, circuit level proxies, application filtering, secured
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servers, and real-time Strikeback alerts.
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The Sidewinder Appliance is available now, through Secure Computing and its
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network of resellers and managed service providers. Sidewinder Appliance
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prices range from $5,900 to $23,900.
