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Forum Systems Joins Microsoft, Industry Leaders in SecureIT Alliance; First XML Web Services Security Company to Join Community of Industry Leaders to Improve Integration of Enterprise Security Solutions

Posted on: Friday, 14 October 2005, 18:00 CDT

Forum Systems, the leader in Web services security for threat protection and trust management, announced today it has become a charter member of the SecureIT Alliance. The SecureIT Alliance is an effort led by Microsoft Corp. to bring greater integration to enterprise security products, and to increase collaboration between its members for customer-driven and innovative security solutions.

The Alliance was made public last week at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/oct05/ 10-06SecureITAlliance.mspx. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) Forum Systems is the first XML Web services security solutions vendor chosen to support this important initiative and brings to the alliance expertise in Service Oriented Architecture's (SOA) security that covers vulnerability management, testing systems, firewall, gateways, identity and policy management.

"Microsoft is looking forward to working closely with Forum Systems in advancing the SecureIT Alliance and efficiently integrating XML Web services security into the Microsoft platform to offer customers comprehensive security solutions," said Bruce Burns, senior director at Microsoft Corporation. "Forum Systems' unique life cycle approach to protecting next generation service oriented architectures and data-level networks will add value to this initiative."

Forum XWall(TM) is the first and only Web Services Firewall that extends the Microsoft ISA Server 2004 to protect enterprises against Web services attacks and XML-related threats. This product integration improves security and interoperability for other protocols within application-layer inspection.

"By joining the SecureIT Alliance, Forum Systems strengthens its existing partnership with Microsoft and other leading industry security vendors with the goal of effectively addressing ever changing enterprise security demands," said Wes Swenson, CEO and president of Forum Systems.

Online Community

The SecureIT Alliance is developing a community site which will launch later this year (the URL will be http://www.secureitalliance.org) and provide Alliance members with greater visibility into the various Microsoft developer programs, such as betas, software development kits, early adopter programs and development labs. The site will afford Alliance members both a portal and a community of peers for sharing the information and best practices needed to build security solutions. The site will also have a public-facing side to help customers address their security needs by accessing security-related information, including case studies, videos, presentations, white papers, best practices and product information provided by Alliance members.

SecureIT Alliance Founding Members

At the time of the announcement of the SecureIT Alliance, founding members include: Altiris Inc., Aventail Corp., BindView Corp., Centrify Corp., Citrix Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., Configuresoft Inc., e-Security Inc., F5 Networks Inc., Forum Systems Inc., F-Secure Corp., FullArmor Corp., LANDesk Software Ltd., McAfee, Inc., Microsoft Corp., Net Report, NetIQ Corp., Network Intelligence Corp., Panda Software, Ping Identity Corp., Quest Software Inc., RSA Security Inc., Symantec Corp., Trend Micro Inc., Utimaco Safeware AG, VeriSign Inc., Voltage Security Inc., Vormetric Inc., Webroot Software Inc. and Websense Inc.

About Forum Systems

Trustworthy, ubiquitous and robust Web services can only be achieved by combining security controls that are proactive, always on and systematic. Forum Seamless Security Solutions Architecture (Forum S3A(TM)) is an adaptive approach to building security minded service-oriented applications and data-level networks using life-cycle solutions including vulnerability management, testing systems, firewalls and gateways. Forum products are available as software, PCI-card and appliance options and comply with government requirements including CheckPoint OPSEC Certification, FIPS Certification, Common Criteria EAL 4+ (in process) and JITC DoD PKI Certification. Forum Systems is an active a member of OASIS and WS-I helping mature standards such as WS-I Basic Profiles, SAML and WS-Security. Customers can benefit from Forum technology that is bundled with market-leading products: Microsoft ISA Server 2004, NetContinuum NC-1000 WSE, Crossbeam Systems, Breach Security and Network Engines NS6300X. For more information on adaptive solutions for Web services security visit http://www.forumsys.com.

Forum Systems, Inc. is the Leader in Web Services and SOA Security(TM) with a comprehensive suite of trust management, threat protection and information assurance solutions for the automated Web. Forum Systems' flexible hardware, software and embedded products make vibrant business communications possible by actively protecting XML data and Web services across networks and business boundaries. Forum's products have been chosen by over 150 Fortune 1000 industry leaders and are winners of Network Computing Magazine's Well-Connected 2004 Award and Product of the Year 2004 Award, Network Computing Magazine's Editor's Choice 2003 Award, Network Magazine's Product of the Year 2003 Award and DEMO 2004 Invitation. Forum XWall Web Services Firewall is the industry's only XML Firewall selected by InfoWorld LEADERBOARD 2004. Visit Forum at http://www.forumsys.com/.

Source: Business Wire

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