SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 8, 2008 –Secure Computing Corporation today unveiled TrustedSource™ Alliance, a new partner program that makes the world’s leading reputation-based security system, TrustedSource, available to partners for integration into, or interoperability with their products and solutions. The alliance benefits end-user customers of all participating companies by adding an important advanced layer of protection based upon the reputation system’s ability to track, in real-time, the trustworthiness of global IP addresses, domains, Web sites, message content and images. TrustedSource Alliance members include Brightfilter, Cymtec Systems, F5, Foundry Networks, InternetSafety.com, MarkMonitor, Riverbed Technology and Webroot.

Secure Computing’s TrustedSource adds an essential layer of protection to guard against today’s most advanced threats, including insidious Web-borne malware, morphing viruses, targeted phishing attacks and more, while eliminating as much as 90 percent of incoming spam before it enters the network gateway, saving significant bandwidth. It is the most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system in the world. It works by accumulating data from over 7000 sensors in 82 countries, creating a real-time profile of all suspicious activity and content, and then watching for deviations based upon expected behavior. The system turns this information into "reputation scores" that enable it to quickly and proactively identify and accurately reject or quarantine unwanted traffic from illegitimate or “suspect” sources. The TrustedSource Alliance is a partnership among best-of-breed original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and service providers. They are making the Internet safer by leveraging the TrustedSource global intelligence system to provide proactive real-time protection for networks.

“Secure Computing was quick to realize the need for reputation services as a way to enhance and differentiate its technology,” said Charlotte Dunlap, senior analyst, Enterprise Security at Current Analysis. “The continual increase in spam attacks has prompted infrastructure providers to include reputation services as part of their solutions. We believe enterprise customers should consider reputation services an important buying criteria for these solutions.”

As partners join the TrustedSource Alliance, the reputation system continually expands its knowledge base about the various types of Internet traffic. As partners continue to deploy solutions that integrate or interoperate with TrustedSource, the global sensor network increases allowing TrustedSource to both gather and disseminate additional knowledge and insight about the latest threats. Additional knowledge provided by TrustedSource enables appliances and services to block attacks quicker and offer a higher level of proactive protection for electronic communications and transactions between people, companies and countries.

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