End-to-End Security Solution Saves Taxpayers More Than $42,000 per Day

SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/03/08 -- Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that Orange County, California, has protected its IT network with a unified set of Secure Computing products, including Secure Firewall (previously known as Sidewinder), Secure Mail (previously known as IronMail), and Secure Web (previously known as Webwasher). Addressing multiple threat vectors, the complete Secure Computing solution incorporated anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-malware, email filtering and encryption, data protection, Web filtering, intrusion prevention and protection from blended attacks. In addition, thanks to Secure Computing's Unified Threat Management (UTM) approach, the county government has been able to achieve enterprise-class security while keeping management overhead to a minimum.

Orange County IT executives report that the new security has significantly improved productivity. "Secure Computing's line of fully integrated solutions protects the County of Orange from both internal and external dangers, allowing my staff to focus on managing security instead of constantly reacting to threats," said Tony Lucich, CISO for the Orange County Office of Information Technology.

Like many government organizations, the Orange County network houses a large amount of sensitive data that requires the highest level of protection. "Because of our industry-leading reputation-based technology and other advances such as geo-location protection and hybrid delivery architecture, the world's most demanding customers rely on Secure Computing to virtually eliminate risks from cyber attack, espionage, and sabotage," noted Dan Ryan, president and CEO for Secure Computing. "No other vendor has an overall solution that addresses all of the Web, mail, and network security concerns facing today's customers."

According to Lucich, the county selected Secure Computing because it combines multiple best-of-breed security protections into "all-in-one" appliances. "We didn't want to have to deal with managing multiple boxes strung together," stated Lucich. "We needed a big picture solution to deal with the large increase we've seen in threats like spam and viruses."

Spam accounts for 97 percent of all email threatening to enter Orange County's network. In order to block that unwanted email, the county relies on Secure Computing's TrustedSource(TM) reputation-based security system, which gathers historical and real-time global intelligence in order to provide pro-active threat blocking.

"Based on our own first-hand experience, companies that integrate the TrustedSource module into their existing load balancers, firewalls or other technologies are going to see a vast improvement in their spam filtering," predicted Lucich.