JSB's surfCONTROL Delivers New Top-of-the-Line Corporate Filtering Solution For Check Point FireWall-1 and VPN-1 Product Family
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JSB receives OPSEC Certification SCOTTS VALLEY, CA – May 25, 1999 – Reinforcing its commitment to providing the highest quality solutions for the Corporate Filtering space, JSB's surfCONTROL today delivered the market's newest top-of-the-line Corporate Internet Filtering solution – surfCONTROL for Check Point FireWall-1 and VPN-1 product family. These best-of-breed products leverage surfCONTROL's premier Internet Management Control Lists and Check Point Software Technologies' (NASDAQ: CHKP) enterprise security management capabilities into a seamlessly integrated solution. Recently awarded OPSEC certification, surfCONTROL for Check Point FireWall-1 and VPN-1 family is a result of surfCONTROL's recent acceptance into Check Point's OPSEC (Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity) Alliance Program. The Alliance provides the first enterprise-wide security framework to deliver seamless interoperability and choice among best-of-breed enterprise security products. "Time and time again, surfCONTROL has set the industry standard for Corporate Internet Policy Management," said Steve Purdham, President, JSB's surfCONTROL. "Now we're demonstrating this leadership yet again. We are pleased to be associated with such a defining force in network security like Check Point Software -- and know that surfCONTROL for FireWall-1 and the VPN-1 product family will ‘raise the bar' for the security marketplace as a whole." Key to the joint solution is surfCONTROL's premier Corporate Internet Management Control Lists. The lists leverage both standard "Negative Filtering" and proprietary "Positive Filtering" methodologies, enabling corporate managers to allow or disallow employee Web site access during business hours. surfCONTROL's proprietary "Positive Filtering" technology is the first technology aimed at defining rating systems and services to enable the classification of Web sites into definable business contexts. Once classified into discrete business contexts, access to specific Web sites can then be determined based on a rules engine that coincides with a corporation's Acceptable Use Policy. Check Point Software's award-winning enterprise security solutions, FireWall-1 and the VPN-1 line, will provide the rules engine for this new solution -- integrating access control with authentication, encryption, network address translation, content security, auditing and connection control. FireWall-1 and VPN-1 family are part of Check Point Software's integrated, policy-based secure enterprise networking solutions and is unified by Check Point's OPSEC policy management framework, which provides integration and enterprise management for Check Point Software's and many third-party network security and management applications. "After recently hitting a 200 partner milestone, we are pleased to continue awarding OPSEC certification to industry-leading solutions such as JSB's surfCONTROL," said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development for Check Point Software Technologies. "Customers, resellers, analysts and partners all have emphasized that best-of-breed is the way to go, and this certification further promotes that strategy."
Check Point Software's Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity OPSEC™ is an open architecture solution that provides the industry's only enterprise-wide policy management and policy enforcement framework. The more than 200 companies which are part of the OPSEC Alliance leverage the OPSEC framework to provide customers choice and an integrated architecture to centrally manage all aspects of secure enterprise networking. These partners have made OPSEC the most successful alliance in the industry by building certified products and solutions which extend the OPSEC architecture in four key ways:
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) is the worldwide leader in Secure Enterprise Networking solutions. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (FireWall-1, VPN-1, Provider-1,Open Security Manager and Check Point RealSecure), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl) and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point's products seamlessly integrate with "best-of-breed" products from more than 200 leading industry partners. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, California and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please call (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit www.checkpoint.com
surfCONTROL, a division of JSB Software Technologies plc, is the foremost authority on Corporate Filtering, providing the market's premier Internet access management software. Based on sophisticated "Expert Filtering" and "Pass-By" technologies, the surfCONTROL family ensures that corporate "Internet Access is Business Access." These Internet monitoring, management and filtering products address many of the key issues raised by corporate Internet access, such as productivity, legal liability, infrastructure bandwidth, and network security. surfCONTROL (www.surfcontrol.com) is a division of JSB Software Technologies plc (www.jsb.com), the prime architect for the Windows Sockets standard and provider of innovative communications technology for the world's leading ISVs. Headquartered in Scotts Valley, Calif. and Manchester, UK, JSB is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (AIM) as ‘JSB'. ### Note to Editors: Products mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. surfCONTROL is a registered trademark of JSB Software Technologies |