Orange County Improves Security; Reduces Costs With Secure Computing
November 03 2008 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise
gateway security company, today announced that Orange County,
California, has protected its IT network with a unified set of
Secure Computing products, including Secure Firewall (previously
known as Sidewinder), Secure Mail (previously known as IronMail),
and Secure Web (previously known as Webwasher). Addressing multiple
threat vectors, the complete Secure Computing solution incorporated
anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-malware, email filtering and
encryption, data protection, Web filtering, intrusion prevention
and protection from blended attacks. In addition, thanks to Secure
Computing's Unified Threat Management (UTM) approach, the county
government has been able to achieve enterprise-class security while
keeping management overhead to a minimum.
Orange County IT executives report that the new security has
significantly improved productivity. "Secure Computing's line of
fully integrated solutions protects the County of Orange from both
internal and external dangers, allowing my staff to focus on
managing security instead of constantly reacting to threats," said
Tony Lucich, CISO for the Orange County Office of Information
Technology.
Like many government organizations, the Orange County network
houses a large amount of sensitive data that requires the highest
level of protection. "Because of our industry-leading
reputation-based technology and other advances such as geo-location
protection and hybrid delivery architecture, the world's most
demanding customers rely on Secure Computing to virtually eliminate
risks from cyber attack, espionage, and sabotage," noted Dan Ryan,
president and CEO for Secure Computing. "No other vendor has an
overall solution that addresses all of the Web, mail, and network
security concerns facing today's customers."
According to Lucich, the county selected Secure Computing
because it combines multiple best-of-breed security protections
into "all-in-one" appliances. "We didn't want to have to deal with
managing multiple boxes strung together," stated Lucich. "We needed
a big picture solution to deal with the large increase we've seen
in threats like spam and viruses."
Spam accounts for 97 percent of all email threatening to enter
Orange County's network. In order to block that unwanted email, the
county relies on Secure Computing's TrustedSource(TM)
reputation-based security system, which gathers historical and
real-time global intelligence in order to provide pro-active threat
blocking.
"Based on our own first-hand experience, companies that
integrate the TrustedSource module into their existing load
balancers, firewalls or other technologies are going to see a vast
improvement in their spam filtering," predicted Lucich. "This
technology, along with Secure Mail, allows us to save thousands of
dollars every day in lower email administration costs, dramatically
reduces the need to buy additional servers to process increased
mail volumes and, perhaps most importantly, saves us an estimated
$42,000 a day in employee productivity that would otherwise be lost
to dealing with spam."
TrustedSource provides such impressive results by assigning
reputation-based scores to Internet hosts and devices based on
their behavior, in much the same way that credit bureaus assign
credit scores. As a result, Secure Computing appliances drop more
than 70 percent of unwanted traffic at the outer edge of Orange
County's network, long before it can do any harm.
In conclusion, Lucich added, "Secure Computing brings top-notch
products to the table at a fair price, and their support can't be
beat."
About Orange County
Home to more than three million residents, Orange County,
California, is the third largest county in the United States.
Currently, the county has approximately 18,000 employees, with
additional outsourcing vendors bringing the total number of on-site
staff to more than 23,000. Due in part to its continual process
improvement, the county's information technology infrastructure has
been recognized as a model of efficiency, and has been honored by
the Center for Digital Government and Governing Magazine for
excellence in information management.
About Secure Computing Corporation
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading provider
of enterprise gateway security, delivers a comprehensive set of
solutions that help customers protect their critical Web, email and
network assets. Over half the Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 are part
of our more than 22,000 global customers, supported by a worldwide
network of more than 2,000 partners. The company is headquartered
in San Jose, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more
information, see http://www.securecomputing.com.
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