Secure Passage Joins McAfee Security Innovation Alliance

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - April 21, 2009) - RSA CONFERENCE -- Secure Passage, the leading provider of Automated Security Analysis and Compliance solutions for firewalls, routers and switches, today announced it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance™ (SIA). As part of the program, Secure Passage plans to integrate its FireMon solution with the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePO™) centralized security and compliance management system.

More than 35,000 organizations use McAfee ePO software to manage disparate security and compliance requirements from a single console. The partnership will enhance joint customers' investments by automating the delivery of firewall, router and switch policy analyses into the ePO console. Combining management and analysis of both endpoints and network devices into a single view will reduce costs associated with overall security management and compliance while providing greater understanding of how network and endpoint security practices affect overall security and compliance postures.

Over 200 enterprises have chosen FireMon to automate the analysis of firewall, router and switch policy configurations and changes on over 25,000 devices. With FireMon, ePO software users will be able to:

--  Automate the firewall, router and switch configuration change analysis
    process
--  Reduce complexity associated with firewall, router and switch policy
    management
--  Reduce resources needed to perform compliance audits and policy
    analysis
--  Receive alerts for unauthorized policy changes that impact security
    and compliance
--  Ease the burden of compliance audits with custom and standard audit
    reports
--  Receive accurate analysis that eliminates configuration errors
--  Scale to meet the analysis demands of increasing numbers of network
    devices
    

To learn more about the benefits of this planned integration, visit Secure Passage at booth 553 on the main exhibition floor during RSA Conference 2009. Prospective partners can also visit Secure Passage at www.securepassage.com, email partners@securepassage.com or call 913-948-9570.

Quotes

"We are excited about our alliance with Secure Passage. Upon completion of FireMon's integration with ePolicy Orchestrator software, we expect our joint customers to experience greater protection, reduced risk and increased compliance," said Joe Gottlieb, vice president of corporate strategy and technology alliances, McAfee. "Security should be easy to manage, so McAfee has taken the steps needed to open up its security risk management architecture and provide customers with the tools to easily manage their multi-vendor security environments."

"Increasing security threats and a wave of compliance regulations are driving the emergence of the Security Analysis and Compliance solutions market," said Secure Passage Founder, President and CTO Jody Brazil. "Our partnership with McAfee will give joint customers the benefit of automated network security and compliance analysis integrated into a platform that provides a single view of network and endpoint security and compliance status."

About Secure Passage

Secure Passage is the leading provider of Security Analysis and Compliance solutions that simplify and automate the analysis of Configuration and Change Management processes to enhance security, optimize performance, and speed compliance reporting. The company's flagship product, FireMon, analyzes changes and performs audits in real-time, simplifies policy management, and enforces configuration governance across firewalls, switches, routers and other network devices. FireMon is the only solution on the market that can be customized to meet the unique audit and compliance reporting requirements for networks of all sizes while enabling IT organizations to do more with less effort. Enterprise strength deployments of FireMon around the world support more than 25,000 security devices from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, and McAfee. For more information, visit www.securepassage.com.

FireMon and the FireMon logo are registered trademarks of Secure Passage, LLC. All other products or company names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks to their respective owners.

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