Lockdown(TM) Networks Announces New Standard in Vulnerability Management With Release of Lockdown Version 3.0, Lockdown(TM) Wireless Sentry and Lockdown(TM) Auditor

Lockdown(TM) Networks Announces New Standard in Vulnerability Management With Release of Lockdown Version 3.0, Lockdown(TM) Wireless Sentry and Lockdown(TM) Auditor

SEATTLE, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockdown Networks, Inc. (TM), the leader in next-generation appliance-based security for vulnerability management of wired and wireless enterprise networks, today announced the release of Lockdown Version 3.0 and its newest line of world-class proactive vulnerability management solutions including the Lockdown Wireless Sentry and Lockdown Auditor.

"Businesses have the daunting responsibility of ensuring their network infrastructures are secure, available, and in compliance with ever greater regulatory requirements. Organizations have spent millions of dollars on security solutions that simply haven't worked. Vulnerability management is now recognized as the foundation for protecting the enterprise network infrastructure," said Lockdown President and CEO Brett Helsel. "Lockdown 3.0 is the only comprehensive solution that delivers integrated vulnerability management and policy enforcement into the enterprise wired and wireless network infrastructure."
"Enterprises that implement a vulnerability management process will experience 90 percent fewer successful attacks than those that make an equal investment only in intrusion detection systems," said Mark Nicolett, Vice President of Gartner Research. "Most organizations have learned that perimeter firewalls, anti-virus software and intrusion detection systems are not enough to protect them from cyber attacks. The ideal form of protection requires hardened, locked-down server and desktop configurations with near-real-time patch deployment."
Policy-based Vulnerability Management and Enforcement
Lockdown Version 3.0 implements comprehensive policy-based vulnerability management and security enforcement for internal, external, remote/branch office and wireless networks with the industry's greatest accuracy, scalability, price/performance, and flexible reporting architecture. At the core of Lockdown 3.0 is a new policy-based vulnerability management architecture that identifies and enforces user definable policies for auditing, prioritizing vulnerabilities, workflow management, and monitoring devices on a wired and wireless network. The Lockdown Policy Engine translates paper-based policies into measurable and actionable items providing full accountability. As an example, the Lockdown Policy Engine detects which ports are allowed to be open, determines which services are allowed to run, assesses the business impact of a vulnerability and enforces the actions to take when a critical vulnerability is found.
Lockdown 3.0 ships with default policy templates which can be customized for regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA or GLBA; enterprise security policies; or outlined policies by SANS, NIST, DISA or NSA. Additional features of Lockdown Version 3.0 include:
-- Enhanced vulnerability data correlation for heightened accuracy
-- Enhanced web-based interface for efficiency and ease-of-use
-- New user customizable "vulnerability scoring" for easier remediation
-- New user customizable reporting capabilities for organizing results

-- Enterprise Directory Access which eliminates maintenance of user accounts
-- Enhanced "device fingerprinting" for tracking network assets
-- Integrated context-sensitive help and quick start guide
-- Software and reporting Co-branding for Security Advisor Partners

"Most companies now have vulnerable networks that are accessible to many employees and can be managed over the Internet. An individual with the right skills could easily interrupt business operations or steal intellectual property resulting in millions of dollars of damage from a single event," said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). "A vulnerability management solution like Lockdown Networks' Version 3.0 can provide solid security information, an important foundation of strong enforcement for internal and external threats."
"Our organization has evaluated a number of security technologies. Ongoing Risk Analysis is required by HIPAA and the Lockdown Networks solution provides a robust and scalable platform to perform ongoing risk analysis in the Children's Hospital environment," said Matt Murren, CISSP and Sr. Information Security Architect, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
New Lockdown Auditor
Delivering greater performance and ease-of-use, Lockdown Networks introduces a new platform for the Lockdown Auditor. The new platform has greater performance for additional audits, an LCD panel for instantly monitoring device status and improved form factor for even greater security.
New Lockdown Wireless Sentry
The company also introduced a new wireless security solution, Lockdown Wireless Sentry, for all wireless 802.11x access point and clients. Lockdown Wireless continuously monitors to enforce wireless policy compliance against rogue devices and unauthorized access points. Lockdown Wireless Sentry has built-in automatic wireless dissociation modes to protect networks in three key ways: removes unauthorized or suspicious clients off of good access points, protects authorized clients by removing them from bad access points and enforces security policies by removing authorized clients that are not in compliance. The new Lockdown Wireless Sentry supports all a/b/g networks and is completely integrated with Lockdown 3.0 offering consolidated policy management and reporting across the entire wired and wireless network.
Lockdown Auditor and Lockdown Wireless Sentry are available with Lockdown version 3.0 on October 8, 2004. Any organization wanting to assess vulnerabilities using the new Lockdown Networks product line can register for a free audit at http://www.lockdownnetworks.com/freeaudit. New pricing starts at USD $6,895 for the Lockdown Auditor (minimum 64 devices), and $2,495 for the Lockdown Wireless Sentry. For more information, please visit http://www.lockdownnetworks.com/ or call 866-844-8080.
About Lockdown Networks, Inc.
Lockdown(TM) Networks, Inc. is the leader in next-generation appliance-based vulnerability management for securing wired and wireless business networks. Lockdown Networks unique implementation of proactive vulnerability management continuously audits, prioritizes, reports and eliminates corporate network security vulnerabilities enabling organizations to dramatically reduce the risk of attacks and track real-time information on network security health. The Lockdown Networks suite of high-performance scalable appliances includes the Lockdown(TM) Auditor, DataSafe, AuditPoint and Wireless Sentry.
Lockdown Networks, Inc.

CONTACT: press only, Ann Varga of Weber Shandwick, +1-425-452-5497, orAVarga@WeberShandwick.com, for Lockdown Networks, Inc.

Web site: http://www.lockdownnetworks.com/

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