Secure Data, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the southern African distributor for Trend security software, today announced that the latter is the only vendor to have successfully attained certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) for an anti-virus product.
After undergoing rigorous testing, Trend Micro's internet gateway solutions, InterScan VirusWall 3.5 for NT and InterScan VirusWall 3.6 for Solaris, HP-UX and Linux received certification and listing on NIAP's Validated Products List (VPL).
Federal policy specifies that any new purchases of IT products by government agencies be limited to those that have met or are in the process of meeting the internationally accepted, standards-based security criteria, known as "Common Criteria", for IT products critical to the overall economic and national security interests of the US.
Other Trend Micro products, Trend Micro Control Manager, ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange and PC-cillin Wireless are currently being considered by NIAP for submission to the certification process. ServerProtect, Office Scan Corporate Edition, and InterScan Messaging Security Suite will be going through the NIAP certification process later this year.
The testing program, the NIAP Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme for IT Security, is a partnership of the National Security Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIAP initiative is designed to meet the security, testing, evaluation and assessment needs of IT producers and consumers.
"We're honoured to be the only vendor with an anti-virus product selected for the Validated Products List," said Mike Lisi, vice-president of government sales for Trend Micro. "We understand the needs and requirements of our government customers to meet the rigorous Common Criteria standards for IT products, and have spent the better part of two years working closely with NIAP to ensure that InterScan VirusWall does."
InterScan VirusWall and the other products on the Validated Product List were evaluated and accredited by a NIAP-approved facility in the US or in one of the other countries participating in the CCRA for conformance of the Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation. The VPL contains numerous IT categories including routers, virtual private networks, remote access, mobile code, multiple domain solutions and biometrics and can be viewed at http://www.niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/ValidatedProducts.html.
Trend Micro InterScan VirusWall provides high-performance, real-time Internet gateway protection against viruses and malicious code in SMTP, HTTP and FTP traffic. Central management is handled through a Web-based console, enabling administrators to enforce Internet security policy from a local or remote location. Integration with Trend Micro Control Manager gives IT managers Internet gateway protection that can be managed as an integral part of an enterprise-wide anti-virus effort.
For further information, please contact Dean Brazier at telephone (011) 258 7800; fax (011) 258 7888; e-mail deanb@sd.co.za.
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SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion detection software, and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Cell-ID and Trend Micro, SecureData is the southern African distributor for US-based BorderWare, UK-based Centennial and US-based Network Privacy. For more information, visit SecureData at www.sd.co.za.
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