AlgoSec Unveils Automated ISO 27001 Firewall Compliance Solution; Provides Out-of-the-Box Reports for Check Point, Cisco and Juniper Firewalls

AlgoSec Inc. , the leading provider of Firewall Operations and Security Risk Management solutions, today announced its automatically completed ISO 27001 report, eliminating labor and time intensive enterprise firewall compliance requirements. The audit-ready ISO 27001 report rounds out AlgoSec's compliance offering, which also includes automatically completed PCI DSS and SOX out-of-the-box compliance reports.

The latest turnkey offering enhances the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer (AFA) Product Suite , which helps users automate complex and time-consuming aspects of firewall, router and VPN administration. AlgoSec's firewall and VPN analysis software solutions work across all available platforms from the leading three enterprise firewall vendors: Cisco, Check Point and Juniper/NetScreen.

The AlgoSec ISO/IEC 27001 compliance report precisely follows the reporting requirements of the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 International Standard "Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security management systems -- Requirements," and on the companion ISO/IEC 27002:2005 "Code of practice for information security management" International Standard. The compliance report answers the requirements that apply to an organization's firewalls -- which are a central part of any organization's Information Security Management System (ISMS).

With the automatically completed ISO/IEC 27001, PCI DSS and SOX reports enterprises now can:

--  View firewall and VPN compliance requirements relative to the standard
    that is relevant to their industry
--  Easily identify how to remediate when in contravention to a line item
    in the requirement
--  Receive real-time reports reflecting any changes made in the firewall
    and VPN configuration
--  View risky firewall and VPN rules relative to the standards
--  Provide auditors with a pre-populated compliance report

For more information on ISO, PCI DSS and SOX compliance and to view screenshots and sample reports please visit: http://www.algosec.com/en/solutions/security_compliance.php

"Government- and industry-mandated compliance requirements are increasing and organizations are investing more time and energy trying to adhere to the various standards. At AlgoSec we strive to automate those difficult, complex and time-consuming issues surrounding firewall compliance and administration. Our latest out-of-the box ISO compliance report does just that -- automatically analyzes the firewall configuration relative to government-mandated standard, a required but until now difficult task," said Dr. Avishai Wool, AlgoSec co-founder and CTO.

Some key technical features of the AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer solutions include:

--  Market-leading analytics engine founded on best practice policies on
    NIST, NSA, PCI DSS, ISO, FISMA, HIPAA, Basel II and more
--  Side-by-side group comparisons of firewall policies and risks across
    firewall vendors: Check Point, Cisco and Juniper
--  Querying capability across multiple firewall platforms to ensure
    business continuity and enable easy troubleshooting
--  "What if" analyses across multiple firewall platforms before
    implementing changes to ensure expected and desired outcomes
--  Automatically generated graphical firewall network diagram
--  Rule usage analysis, including identifying duplicated, disabled,
    expired and unused rules and objects and provides guidance for rule
    reordering to optimize performance
--  Continuous security audit provides complete audit trail and replaces
    error prone manual task to ensure configuration matches policy

Through its off-line setup, AlgoSec's application is easy to deploy and use even in the most complex firewall and VPN environments. Its detailed policy analysis features, combined with an easy to navigate web GUI provides users with instant visibility into hidden risks in the firewall and VPN policy, while offering administrators a rich set of capabilities to help them reduce the large amount of time spent managing these devices.

For more information on AlgoSec's Firewall Analyzer Product Suite and its other solutions please visit: http://www.algosec.com/en/products/index.php

About AlgoSec

AlgoSec provides advanced management solutions for computer network security. Global 2000 organizations around the world are using AlgoSec's market leading software to analyze, audit and certify firewall and router ACL policies, and for change management, security compliance and policy optimization. AlgoSec offers IT security and operations personnel unparalleled visibility and guidance to ensure their firewall policies are secure and comply with corporate and government-mandated policies while adhering to industry best practices.

AlgoSec Inc., Algorithmic Security, AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer and the AlgoSec logo are trademarks of Algorithmic Security Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. For more information about AlgoSec visit: www.algosec.com . For more information on AlgoSec's product suite visit: http://www.algosec.com/en/products/index.php