ANDOVER, MA -- Oct 22, 2004 -- Enterasys Networks(R) (NYSE: ETS), the Secure Networks CompanyTM, today announced its Dragon Intrusion Defense System has earned Common Criteria certification, a key milestone for products purchased by federal government organizations.
The Common Criteria evaluation process ensures IT products conform to international security standards. The program is a partnership between the public and private sectors in the United States and Europe designed to help government organizations select commercial IT products that meet strict security requirements. Many enterprises and government agencies only purchase IT security products that are Common Criteria certified. Dragon's Common Criteria certification conformance rating is EAL2.
Common Criteria is the latest major certification for Dragon. The award-winning product successfully completed Open Security Evaluation Criteria (OSEC) and OPSECTM (Open Platform for Security) certifications in the third quarter.
"The federal government is a key market for Enterasys' full line of Secure NetworksTM products, services and solutions," said Bob Fortna, vice president of federal sales for Enterasys. "Common Criteria certification is a significant milestone for Enterasys and we are proud that our Dragon Intrusion Defense System has passed the rigorous requirements. This certification sends a message to our customers and partners that not only is Dragon the industry's best intrusion defense system, but reconfirms that it meets the stringent standards of federal IT organizations."
Dragon's comprehensive features minimize network vulnerabilities while delivering significantly improved security. With its unique network-based detection and response capabilities, modular host intrusion-detection components, server management and event management, Dragon provides a reliable solution for detecting and responding to the broad array of attacks present in today's constantly changing security landscape. Dragon is a key component in Enterasys' Dynamic Intrusion Response solution that enables the network to automatically identify, locate and mitigate security events. The automated nature of these solutions creates significant value for enterprises by enabling the highest level of Secure Networks availability for critical real-time applications, while reducing IT requirements.
Dragon's power is enhanced by its ability to combine events on the network with those on the hosts, firewalls, routers, switches, other IDSs and applications, providing complete detection for small, mid-sized and large network environments. With comprehensive analysis and real-time monitoring capabilities, Dragon delivers a higher level of defense to the business-critical IT infrastructure.
Enterasys' industry-leading Secure Networks technology and solutions provide the highest level of infrastructure security available today. Secure Networks delivers the most granular level of security, providing visibility and control down to the network device, individual user and application level. This enables enterprises to quickly and easily detect, assess, locate and protect against attacks. This unmatched security comes from the integrated policy-based management software architecture that works with the embedded security capabilities Enterasys designs into its entire product line. This unique approach offers significant operational and business benefits, unmatched by vendor offerings that add hardware or software to multiple network access points in an attempt to increase security. In fact, Secure Networks technology can even make networks with competitors' equipment more secure.
About Enterasys Networks
Enterasys Networks (NYSE: ETS) is a global provider of Secure NetworksTM for enterprise customers. Enterasys' innovative network infrastructure offerings deliver the security, productivity and adaptability benefits required by Global 2000 organizations, coupled with the industry's strongest service and support. For more information on Enterasys and its products, including multilayer switches, core routers, WAN routers, wireless LANs, network management, and intrusion defense systems (IDS), visit enterasys.com.
