RADGUARD and Siemens Ink Global Partnership Agreement; Collaboration Offers IPSec VPN Solutions, Security Integration and Consulting

Business Wire, Feb 22, 2000

Business Editors/High-tech Writers

CeBIT 2000

VPNcon 2000

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2000

RADGUARD, the leading provider of e-business enabling secure VPN solutions, and Siemens AG, leading producer of electronics and technology, have signed an agreement to distribute and deploy RADGUARD IPSec VPN solutions.

The Siemens Trusted Networks and Applications (TNA) unit, part of Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN) Group, will offer RADGUARD's award-winning secure VPN solutions worldwide as part of a new, comprehensive security consulting, integration and packaged solution service.

The RADGUARD cIPro solutions family will be offered as part of the VPN security solutions of TNA and will serve the company's corporate clients worldwide. Siemens local companies may offer and integrate RADGUARD's award winning cIPro solutions in addition to providing expert security consulting and network design. The range of TNA Security services that are available include security analyses and concepts, security solutions, integration and training.

"The latest developments in Internet e-commerce and mobility impose greater demands on the security of communications networks and applications," said Elmar Rothenwoehrer, head of Siemens TNA. "The ability to defend corporate privacy has become a basic requirement, and RADGUARD continues to develop state-of-the-art security technology to keep up with these demands. We are proud to offer the RADGUARD product line as part of our secure VPN solution."

Also as part of the agreement, Siemens will have access to RADGUARD's extensive technical support and engineering teams. In addition, Siemens and RADGUARD will work closely together on joint technology and future marketing projects throughout the world.

"RADGUARD's standards-based security expertise, combined with Siemens' vast experience with secure end-to-end solutions for voice, data and mobile networks, will be greatly beneficial to corporations faced with today's evolving security challenges," said Eli Herscovitz, President and CEO, RADGUARD Ltd. "We look forward to working with Siemens to provide customers with the highest level of security and best-of-breed solutions."

About Siemens TNA

To help their corporate clients, Siemens' ICN Group has set up the unit Trusted Networks and Applications (TNA) that provides security consulting. TNA offers customized security services from the perspective of personal work areas, applications in use, and business processes, as well as the underlying network and system environment. Services available range from security analyses and concepts to security solutions, integration and training. As a general contractor for custom-made security solutions, TNA has many years of experience gleaned from a wide variety of projects in various industry segments. In addition to expertise in complex communications solutions, basic research, and security standardization, TNA has practical experience inter-connecting many users and worldwide locations with individual corporate networks.

About RADGUARD

Since 1994, RADGUARD has been an international leader in the secure e-business market, involved in some of the largest VPN installations around the world. RADGUARD's products, all of which are based on industry standards, use dedicated hardware platforms that provide the best performance and most robust security for a complete enterprise solution. Committed to service, support and reliability, RADGUARD provides 24x7 worldwide support for its product line and works with some of the world's leading distributors, resellers and systems integrators. United States-based RADGUARD Inc. is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and international RADGUARD Ltd. headquarters are based in Tel Aviv, Israel. More information about RADGUARD can be found at www.radguard.com.

Note to Editors: RADGUARD is a trademark of RADGUARD Ltd. cIPro is a registered trademark of RADGUARD Ltd.

RADGUARD will be exhibiting at CeBIT 2000 Hannover, February 24- March 1, 2000, Hall 15, booth G06 and VPNcon Spring 2000 in San Jose, California February 28-March 2, 2000, booth No. 205.