Secure Computing Announces New TrustedSource Alliance: Makes TrustedSource World-Class Reputation System Available to Partners

Market Wire, April, 2008

Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security provider, today unveiled TrustedSource(TM) Alliance, a new partner program that makes the world's leading reputation-based security system, TrustedSource, available to partners for integration into, or interoperability with their products and solutions. The alliance benefits end-user customers of all participating companies by adding an important advanced layer of protection based upon the reputation system's ability to track, in real-time, the trustworthiness of global IP addresses, domains, Web sites, message content and images. TrustedSource Alliance members include Brightfilter, Cymtec Systems, F5 (NASDAQ: FFIV), Foundry Networks, InternetSafety.com, MarkMonitor, Riverbed Technology and Webroot.

Secure Computing's TrustedSource adds an essential layer of protection to guard against today's most advanced threats, including insidious Web-borne malware, morphing viruses, targeted phishing attacks and more, while eliminating as much as 90 percent of incoming spam before it enters the network gateway, saving significant bandwidth. It is the most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system in the world. It works by accumulating data from over 7000 sensors in 82 countries, creating a real-time profile of all suspicious activity and content, and then watching for deviations based upon expected behavior. The system turns this information into "reputation scores" that enable it to quickly and proactively identify and accurately reject or quarantine unwanted traffic from illegitimate or "suspect" sources.

The TrustedSource Alliance is a partnership among best-of-breed original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and service providers. They are making the Internet safer by leveraging the TrustedSource global intelligence system to provide proactive real-time protection for networks.

"Secure Computing was quick to realize the need for reputation services as a way to enhance and differentiate its technology," said Charlotte Dunlap, senior analyst, Enterprise Security at Current Analysis. "The continual increase in spam attacks has prompted infrastructure providers to include reputation services as part of their solutions. We believe enterprise customers should consider reputation services an important buying criteria for these solutions."

As partners join the TrustedSource Alliance, the reputation system continually expands its knowledge base about the various types of Internet traffic. As partners continue to deploy solutions that integrate or interoperate with TrustedSource, the global sensor network increases allowing TrustedSource to both gather and disseminate additional knowledge and insight about the latest threats. The additional knowledge provided by TrustedSource enables appliances and services to block attacks quicker and offer a higher level of proactive protection for electronic communications and transactions between people, companies and countries.

"The need for reputation-based systems is clearly on the rise in order to filter spam and other message security threats -- before it enters the corporate network," said Jim Ritchings, vice president of Business Development for F5. "We recognized the immediate and measurable value that TrustedSource could bring to F5 customers and delivered the BIG-IP Message Security Module in partnership with Secure Computing. Making TrustedSource available through Secure Computing's Alliance Program will certainly benefit the general market."

Join The TrustedSource Alliance

Companies interested in capitalizing on the TrustedSource reputation technology should visit the TrustedSource Alliance Website. For more information: www.securecomputing.com/TrustedSourceAlliance

TrustedSource Alliance Partners:

Cymtec Systems, Inc.

Cymtec Systems develops network security and performance management products and services that deliver simplicity of use and low cost of ownership. These qualities are fueling rapid growth in markets that have been burdened by overly complex and expensive security and performance solutions that were designed for organizations with very different functional needs.

The partnership with Cymtec Systems has led to the integration of Cymtec Sentry 2.0 Dynamic Threat Protection (DTP) engine with TrustedSource through the Secure Computing Secure Web (formerly known as SmartFilter) solution. The two security vendors have joined forces to improve network security and performance management for remote and branch office environments. Cymtec Sentry, combined with Secure Computing's Secure Web, adds another level of security to solutions such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and anti-virus software. This new class of unified remote and branch office protection provides a simple, cost-effective method for stopping the uncontrolled spread of threats that evade traditional perimeter and host defenses.

Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions. Foundry's customers include the world's premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies.