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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.
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Received on Fri May 15 10:02:16 1998