Secure Passage Achieves OPSEC Certification From Check Point
Affirms Tight Integration of Secure Passage FireMon With Industry's Leading Security Framework to Provide In-Depth Analysis of Network Security and Network Devices
KANSAS CITY, MO--(Marketwire - October 20, 2008) - Secure Passage today announced that its
FireMon Security Operations Management product has once again achieved
OPSEC™ (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing
the Internet. FireMon was first OPSEC certified in early 2001. Through
OPSEC certification, Secure Passage's FireMon product continues to
seamlessly integrate with Check Point's market-leading
VPN-1®/FireWall-1® Next Generation™ software.
FireMon builds on Check Point's OPSEC™ industry leading framework to
ensure that customers can leverage best-of-breed solutions to optimize
resources and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of network security and
security devices. Based on a distributed architecture, FireMon can scale
to support thousands of devices, with highly customizable options. The
combination of FireMon and Check Point OPSEC enables organizations in
demanding industries such as financial services and telecommunications to
meet the challenge of rising security threats while ensuring best practices
and compliance with industry and government mandates.
"As the leading provider of Security Operations Management solutions we are
committed to providing our customers and partners with continued innovation
that will give security personnel a real-time, continuous analysis of their
operations to mitigate risk and improve operational effectiveness," said
Jody Brazil, CTO at Secure Passage. "Our two firms share a long history: we
built FireMon from the ground up working directly with Check Point and
hundreds of customers around the world. FireMon's tight integration with
Check Point products and the OPSEC certification enables any IT
organization to automatically monitor, analyze and control security policy
changes and enforce configuration policy compliance across enterprise
networks and network devices."
"We are pleased to see that Secure Passage has achieved the OPSEC
certification," said Juliette Sultan, head of global marketing at Check
Point. "Through the integration of the Secure Passage's FireMon and Check
Point's VPN-1 technology, our joint customers will benefit from
comprehensive Risk Management solutions."
The OPSEC certified integration of FireMon with Check Point's
market-leading VPN-1®/FireWall-1® Next Generation™ software provides
security professionals visibility into their networks and the ability to
track changes and optimize security device operations for the Check Point
firewalls, routers, switches, and even their underlying platforms.
FireMon's integration enables an organization to easily monitor network
device configurations from a single console for firewalls, routers and
switches; control changes; analyze policies and device configurations to
ensure device-level compliance; and optimize rules to maximize performance
and improve system administration efficiency.
ABOUT SECURE PASSAGE
Based in Kansas City, MO, Secure Passage is the leading provider of
Security Operations Management solutions. Introduced in 2001, their
flagship product, FireMon, provides security professionals with visibility
into their networks and the tools to control change. Secure Passage
continues to build on the strategy that grew FireMon from a firewall
analysis tool into the leading Security Operations Management solution: to
develop tightly integrated, interoperable software with a flexible
architecture that helps network security teams better manage their security
environments. For more information, visit www.securepassage.com.
About Check Point's OPSEC®
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor
security framework. With over 350 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the
broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment
platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture.
Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee
integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program
information, including partner and product listings, the freely available
OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC
Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their registered
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