Lucent Adds Leading Anti-Virus and Content Filtering Software to Lucent VPN Gateway and Lucent Managed Firewall

Business Wire, March 15, 1999

MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--

Company Joins Common Content Inspection API Industry Working Group

to Develop Standards-Based Alternative for Content Security

In an effort to make content security an integral part of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Lucent Technologies today said it is integrating third party software from leading content security vendors Trend Micro and Log-On Data Corporation with its portfolio of Secure/VPN Solutions.

The move makes anti-virus scanning and content security filtering an integral part of a managed secure network, not just a function performed by firewalls and individually managed desktop computers.

Customers will now be able to easily integrate Trend Micro's InterScan(R) VirusWall Anti-Virus Security Suite and/or Log-On Data Corporations X-Stop URL filtering server with the Lucent VPN Gateway and Lucent Managed Firewall. Trend Micro's InterScan(R) VirusWall Anti-Virus Security Suite provides anti-virus security features to block out e-mail or file viruses as they pass through the VPN or firewall. Log-On Data Corporation's X-Stop URL filtering server provides the ability to block content from inappropriate web sites. Trend Micro, is a leading maker of anti-virus software. Log-on Data, is a leading maker of URL blocking software.

"Trend Micro's leading network-based anti-virus solution is an ideal match for our high performance VPN and firewall networking devices," said Howie Gittleson, director of Lucent's Secure/VPN Solutions Group. "Both our products are focused on providing centrally managed security for distributed networks. Log-on Data's X-Stop brings a strong network-level solution to the problem of protecting corporate, government and educational users from inappropriate web sites.

"The integration of these two leading software solutions into our VPN Gateway and Lucent Managed Firewall portfolio gives us a hybrid VPN and firewall architecture that allows for secure VPNs, stateful firewall protection, and application content security, all integrated together," Gittleson added.

Lucent also said it has joined the Common Content Inspection API (CCIAPI), a voluntary, informal working group that is developing what it hopes will become an industry standard API for content security. This API will allow network-based security devices, such as the Lucent VPN Gateway and Lucent Managed Firewall, to work with anti-virus software and content filtering products to reach into Internet packets to find and block malicious code from passing through the security device. The new open standard will replace closed, proprietary content vectoring protocols used by some firewall vendors. Lucent will host the April CCIAPI meeting at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J.

For more information on the CCIAPI working group visit http://ziggy.stardust.com/cciapi.> The Lucent VPN Gateway and Lucent Managed Firewall are part of centrally managed, integrated Secure/VPN Solutions suite that also includes Lucent RealSecure(tm) intrusion detection software. Lucent's Secure/VPN network security solutions are linked and centrally controlled through a common, integrated policy-based Security Management Server management system. For more information on Lucent's Secure/VPN Solutions Group, visit http://www.lucent.com/security.> Trend Micro provides centrally controlled server-based virus and malicious code protection. By protecting information that flows through file servers, e-mail servers and Internet gateways, Trend Micro helps major companies worldwide stop viruses and other malicious code from a central point before they ever reach the desktop. Trend Micro is publicly held in Japan, with North American headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., and offices worldwide. Trend Micro's products are sold directly and through a network of corporate and value-added resellers. Evaluation copies of all of Trend Micro's products may be downloaded from its award-winning site, http://www.antivirus.com. Web site visitors may also test-drive products online through Trend Micro's Virtual Lab.

Log-On Data Corporation's X-Stop products provides complete Internet content filtering solutions from individual PC version, server add-on software to hardware server version for heavy usage network. Log-On Data Corporation is private held company with its' headquarter in Orange, California. X-Stop products are currently installed in thousands of homes, schools, businesses and ISPs protecting users from accessing to objectionable Internet contents. X-Stop also filter FTP, News groups, Email, Spam and Search engines. Evaluation copies of X-Stop may be downloaded from http://www.xstop.com.

Lucent Technologies (LU) designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered at Murray Hill, N.J., visit the company's website at http://www.lucent.com.