COUNTERPANE INTERNET SECURITY JOINS SOURCEFIRE™ CERTIFIED SNORT® INTEGRATOR PROGRAM
Sourcefire's VRT Certified Snort Rules Now Made Available to all Counterpane's Customers
Mountain View, Calif., August 24, 2005 - Counterpane Internet Security today announced that it has joined Sourcefire's new Certified Snort Integrator Program. With this program, Sourcefire, the creators of Snort and a world leader in intrusion prevention, allows third-party solution providers to deliver Sourcefire VRT Certified Snort Rule updates directly to their end users. By joining the Certified Snort Integrator Program Counterpane is increasing the value of its offerings, simplifying the way its products are updated and providing detection in advance of actual threats.
"Snort is one of the most popular Network IDS deployed across Counterpane's customer base," said Doug Howard, Vice President of Service Delivery for Counterpane. "Our customers demand best in class, technology agnostic solutions that can accommodate scalable budgets. As the basis for our own turnkey Managed IDS offering, Snort helps Counterpane deliver an enhanced vulnerability management solution that meets -- and surpasses -- our customers' needs. Over the years, Open Source solutions have gained trust of most of the fortune 500 companies and global enterprises. As is the case with Snort, these solutions provide more flexibility in customization than commercialized solutions."
Leveraging proprietary technology, Counterpane's Managed IDS service offers correlation between Snort alerts and vulnerability data captured by Nessus scans. This approach reduces the number of "false positives," saving time and money for Counterpane's customers. Additionally, this technology improves reporting capabilities that allow customers to pinpoint and resolve security issues within complex global networks.
Counterpane's participation in the Certified Snort Integrator Program further broadens the company's comprehensive Vulnerability Scanning (MVS) services. These MVS services are built on a core vulnerability-scanning engine provided by Tenable through The Nessus Project -- another open source program customized by Counterpane.
"The growing complexity of today's networks means global enterprises increasingly are finding it difficult to ensure the security of their networks on their own. As the world's leading protector of networked information, Counterpane offers customers the earliest possible warning of internal or external threats to their information security and availability, as well as the expert counsel required to successfully mitigate such threats," said Howard. "Our expanded partnership with Sourcefire allows Counterpane continue to raise the bar in the field of security management."
Since its creation in 2001, Sourcefire's Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) has taken Snort rules to the next level, ensuring that rules are accurate and fully tested before they are released to the community. Snort has been downloaded more than 2 million times and has over 100,000 active users. The Snort rules language has also emerged as an industry standard with download rates tripling over the last year alone. Sourcefire's award-winning Vulnerability Research Team works closely with the open source community to develop the official Snort Rules that are distributed on Snort.org. This partnership results in much faster response to new threats while maintaining unparalleled quality and performance.
About Counterpane
Counterpane is the world's leading protector of networked information -- the inventor of outsourced security monitoring and the foremost authority on effective mitigation of emerging IT threats. With the most comprehensive view available of global information security events, Counterpane offers customers the earliest possible warning of internal or external threats to their information security and availability, as well as the expert counsel required to successfully mitigate such threats. Counterpane's managed service model and technology products provide information-intensive organizations the security they require to collaborate with ever-increasing numbers of partners, customers, suppliers, investors and government regulators. The company is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.
About the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
The Sourcefire VRT is a group of leading edge intrusion detection and prevention experts working to proactively discover, assess and respond to the latest trends in hacking activity, intrusion attempts and vulnerabilities. This team is also supported by the vast resources of the open source Snort community, making it the largest group dedicated to advances in network security.
Snort has long been recognized as the de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention. The power, precision and flexibility of the technology and the robust rules language enable the industry's most comprehensive threat coverage. Sourcefire enhances this coverage by combining the accuracy of Snort with the expertise of the Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team, network insight provided by RNA and real world insights of the user community. Sourcefire customers benefit from this combination by gaining the most effective network security available today.
About Sourcefire
Sourcefire, Inc., the world leader in intrusion prevention, is transforming the way organizations manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks in real-time. The company's ground-breaking network defense system unifies intrusion and vulnerability management technologies to provide customers with the most effective network security available. Founded in 2001 by the creator of Snort, Sourcefire is headquartered in Columbia, MD and has received numerous accolades including being named the Frost & Sullivan 2005 Network Security Infrastructure Protection Company of the Year. At work in leading Fortune 1000 and government agencies, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and intelligence in network security. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit www.sourcefire.com.
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