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Lumeta Joins the Trusted Computing Group to Support Trusted Computing Initiative

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 09:00 CDT

SOMERSET, N.J., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumeta, the leading provider of Network Assurance solutions for enterprises and government agencies, today announced that it has joined the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and will participate in its Trusted Network Connect (TNC) work group. Members of the non-profit group develop open industry specifications that ensure secure interoperability across multi-vendor network security solutions. By supporting TNC specifications in the company's flagship solution, IPsonar(R), the company is enhancing the industry's leading network assurance solution by providing network visibility needed to enhance and complement the TNC architecture.

"A universally agreed-upon standard is critical to moving NAC (Network Access Control) forward," said Steve Hanna, co-chair of the Trusted Computing Group's Trusted Network Connect work group. "One of the important goals of TNC is to integrate more network-based services such as intrusion detection, security event management, and technologies that can aid in making intelligent decisions about the actions and health of an endpoint."

Initial TNC specifications were first introduced by TCG in May 2005 and several TCG members now support these specifications in their products. A significant number of TCG's nearly 140 members have joined the work group to support and implement the TNC architecture. Recently, the organization unveiled a new protocol, IF-MAP (Interface for Metadata Access Point), a powerful protocol that enables a wide range of systems to share data in real time about network devices, policies, status and behavior. Reliable security standards developed through industry groups like TCG can drive innovation, reduce cost of implementation, and enhance security.

"By joining the TCG to establish an industry-standard approach, we're helping create a roadmap on how to share critical network infrastructure information among the different platforms of other leading network and security solution providers," said Michael Markulec, chief operating officer, Lumeta. "While having access to updated network data is critical, it is also important that network and security personnel are able to leverage it in a number of different ways to establish and enhance security standards."

The TNC architecture has been designed to assist network administrators in protecting networks by allowing them to audit endpoint configurations and impose enterprise security policies before network connectivity is established. This can help prevent inappropriate and unauthorized access that can result in viruses and email worms, Trojan horses, denial of service attacks, and other malicious activities.

"No one solution can secure the network; instead, what is required is a variety of solutions and components to continually monitor the network," noted Stuart Bailey, founder and CTO of Infoblox and Trusted Network Connect work group specification editor. "By enabling real-time exchange of data among products from multiple vendors, TNC, and specifically the new IF-MAP spec - the open standard for sharing real-time network metadata - is helping to enable systems that provide continual, coordinated defense-in-depth at a reasonable cost while enabling vendor choice."

About the Trusted Computing Group

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is a not-for-profit organization formed to develop, define, and promote open standards for hardware-enabled trusted computing and security technologies, including hardware building blocks and software interfaces, across multiple platforms, peripherals, and devices. TCG specifications will enable more secure computing environments without compromising functional integrity, privacy, or individual rights. The primary goal is to help users protect their information assets (data, passwords, keys, etc.) from compromise due to external software attack and physical theft. More information and the organization's specifications are available at the Trusted Computing Group's website, http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/.

About Lumeta Corporation

Lumeta provides large enterprises and government agencies with the global visibility needed to quantify network risk and measure the impact of network change. Our network assurance solutions enable IT organizations to deploy new business services, maintain existing service levels and minimize network security risk to ensure compliant operations.

Lumeta's flagship product, IPsonar, is the industry's only solution that allows organizations to measure risk from a global network perspective. IPsonar maps every asset on a network-including assets not currently under management-visualizes the connectivity between assets and networks to uncover risk patterns and policy weaknesses, and enables network and security teams to bring unknown assets under management while deploying security technology more effectively to mitigate risk.

For more information, visit the Lumeta Web site at http://www.lumeta.com/.

Lumeta, the Lumeta logo, IPsonar and the IPsonar logo are trademarks and service marks of the Lumeta Corporation. Other product and company names appearing in this document may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Media Contacts: Jim McManus Davies Murphy Group (781) 418-2402 lumeta@daviesmurphy.com

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CONTACT: Jim McManus of Davies Murphy Group, +1-781-418-2402,lumeta@daviesmurphy.com

Web site: http://www.lumeta.com/http://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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