ALGOSEC STREAMLINES FIREWALL CONSOLIDATION PROJECTS WITH NEW RULE CONSOLIDATION ANALYSIS<br />

ALGOSEC STREAMLINES FIREWALL CONSOLIDATION PROJECTS WITH NEW RULE CONSOLIDATION ANALYSIS

New Technology Extends AlgoSec’s Intelligent Automation Value Proposition

Reston, VA, September 3, 2009 – AlgoSec, the leading provider of firewall operations and security risk management solutions, today announced the addition of Rule Consolidation Analysis into the company’s AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) solution. The new Rule Consolidation Analysis adds yet another layer of innovation to AlgoSec’s intelligent automation technology for security policy cleanup and optimization.

The AFA’s Rule Consolidation Analysis works on a per-firewall basis to scour individual firewall policies and identify any and all rules demonstrating high degrees of similarity to one another. The Analysis then highlights specific rules that may be consolidated into a single rule, thus simplifying and minimizing massive firewall policy sets.

The Rule Consolidation Analysis falls squarely in line with the AFA's unique solutions for major server and firewall consolidation projects. The AFA’s existing firewall optimization solutions includes policy cleanup capabilities for detecting covered rules, special case redundant rules, unused rules, unused objects within rules, unattached objects and more. Alongside AFA’s unique policy optimization features such as its patent pending Intelligent Rule Reordering technology, the Rule Consolidation Analysis plays a similar role in increasing firewall performance by decreasing unneeded rules and complexity.

“The current economic climate is leading many organizations to perform regular server and firewall consolidation projects and move to virtual environments. The presence of specialized solutions for facilitating rapid and reliable completion of these endeavors directly impact the bottom line for IT organizations and network security teams looking to cut costs and complexity,” said Avishai Wool, CTO and co-founder of AlgoSec. “Our new Rule Consolidation Analysis alongside an existing collection of highly sophisticated AlgoSec policy optimization technologies provides the best resource for organizations not only looking to reduce redundancy and waste, but simultaneously increase the security profile of their networks through tighter firewall rule bases.”

All existing AlgoSec customers will be able to upgrade their solutions with the new Rule Consolidation Analysis technology by October 2009. Rule Consolidation Analysis will also be available to auditors and security consultants within the various new licensing packages now offered through AlgoSec’s recently launched E-store.

“AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer is a must have for anyone who manages a rule set of 100 or more. ”

Network World Magazine

“By creating FireFlow using the AFA engine, AlgoSec has effectively created a solution that can automate the entire network security lifecycle...”

Frost & Sullivan Analyst

“We quickly saw a clear return on our investment with the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer... ”

Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik

“The AFA allows us to get all of our firewall information in one place, providing IT Governance and visibility where it did not exist.”

Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik

“Network security VARs, take note: AlgoSec’s FireFlow network policy change workflow management software is the next hot-ticket item for customers.”

eWeek Magazine

“The AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer fills a critical need for us by automating what was a manual, labor intensive and error prone process. ”

Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik

“By utilizing AFA we no longer require the services of an external source to perform an audit.”

Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet

“It (AFA) easily and quickly provided Atos Worldline with the ability to understand, track and verify changes to our firewall infrastructure…”

Massoud Kamran,
Security Consultant at Atos Worldline Belgium

“AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer’s automated and intelligent analysis lets us know the implications of a change and avoid potential risks which save us time, effort and money. ”

Peter Johannes,
head of Security and Architecture Policy at Atos Worldline Belgium

“AlgoSec’s Firewall Analyzer has helped us significantly improve our overall network security.”

Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet

“Using AFA’s turnkey solution for PCI DSS has been invaluable for us in terms of time and effort.”

Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet

“The integrity of the company (AlgoSec) and its employees surpassed our expectations and has raised the bar for what we look for in other vendors as well.”

Lutz Bleyer, Chief Security Officer,
FIDUCIA

“By utilizing AFA we no longer require the services of an external source to perform an audit.”

Ruza Manojilovic,
Manager Security Operations Teranet.

“With the AFA we can focus on what is most important to Porsche Informatik – our customers.”

Anton Spitzer,
Infrastructure Services, Porsche Informatik

“AlgoSec affords us realizing operational efficiencies in global security policy management and compliance.”

Hugo Van der Veeken,
Atos Worldline SA/NVsecurity department head