http://www.nai.com/about/news/press/1998/051298.asp NETWORK ASSOCIATES ACQUIRES SECURE NETWORKS INC. Leading Network Vulnerability Assessment Tool Expands Arsenal of Security Products SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 12, 1998 - Network Associates, formed by the merger of McAfee Associates and Network General and the acquisitions of Pretty Good Privacy and Trusted Information Systems, today announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Secure Networks Inc. (SNI). The SNI acquisition extends Network Associates' network security and management products to include state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment technology. Vulnerability assessment or "security scanning" allows businesses to check the security of their networks before hackers or hostile insiders can steal or damage data. This announcement distinguishes Network Associates as the only company to offer an integrated suite of network security products that includes firewalls, global VPNs, intrusion detection, audit analysis, encryption, authentication, anti-virus and now the world's best security scanner. SNI's products, including the Ballista security auditing scanner, extend Network Associates' Net Tools Secure suite. By incorporating Ballista into Net Tools Secure, Network Associates leads a new trend in the network vulnerability assessment market towards suite-based offerings that integrate best-of-breed technologies at one low price, and away from stand-alone products. "With Net Tools Secure, we give customers the ability to find the security holes in their networks, plug the holes by tuning their firewalls and then monitor against further attack with intrusion detection," said Peter Watkins General Manager of the Net Tools Secure Division at Network Associates. "Over the next several months we will continue integrating our firewall and intrusion detection products to provide a dynamic security defense that monitors for weaknesses or attacks and adapts the network's security configuration for active response." "Ballista has long been recognized as a superior scanning technology amongst security industry observers," said Arthur Wong, president of SNI. "With the power of Network Associates' distribution and marketing infrastructures, Ballista will surpass today's popular scanning technologies like those provided by ISS (Nasdaq: ISSX). Ultimately, customers will realize that stand-alone scanning products are really just features in search of a product." SNI is a leading provider of security assessment software and computer security research and consulting. By simulating attacks on the network, SNI's Ballista network security scanner exposes security weaknesses in networked environments. A recent April 13, 1998, Info World review described Ballista as: "Even if you already own another auditing tool from Internet Security Systems (ISS), this [Ballista] advanced network-security auditing tool is so complete that once you use it, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it." The acquisition of SNI also adds industry leading research expertise in hacker techniques and intrusion detection to Network Associates' rapidly growing arsenal of research labs. With more than 150 researchers in virus detection, intrusion detection and advanced firewall technology on five continents, Network Associates is able to provide customers with up-to-the- minute information on the latest security threats as well as state-of-the-art technology and products for combating them. Network Associates' Net Tools Secure suite is the industry's most comprehensive set of security products encompassing enterprise encryption, authentication, intrusion detection, audit analysis, anti-virus, firewall, global virtual private network and network vulnerability assessment. Net Tools Secure is available now and is priced at $49 per user for 5000 users. With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Network Associates, Inc., formed by the merger of McAfee Associates and Network General, is a leading supplier of enterprise network security and management solutions. Network Associates' Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager offer best-of-breed, suite-based network security and management solutions. Net Tools Secure and Net Tools Manager suites combine to create Net Tools, which centralizes these point solutions within an easy-to-use, integrated systems management environment. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at (408) 988-3832 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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