Secure Computing intros Geo-Location

GURGAON, INDIA: Secure Computing Corp unveiled Secure Firewall (formerly known as Sidewinder) Geo-Location, a new service that allows organizations to create policies that block connections by an IP address (for any network protocol/application), based on country code information.

Secure Computing's Secure Firewall is the first and only firewall to provide organizations with the ability to reduce their exposure to attack by essentially shrinking the size of the Internet.

Geo-Location does this by blocking or allowing the organization to apply additional in-depth application filtering on all traffic from countries that they do not do business with, or that are known originators of malicious hacking. 

Secure Computing's Secure Firewall is setting a new standard for proactive threat detection by integrating the industry's leading reputation system, TrustedSource and the new Geo-Location technology into every firewall.

The combination of TrustedSoure reputation-based policy and Geo-Location country policy can be used with existing firewall policies such as anti-virus, IPS signatures, and application layer filtering to further reduce the company's exposure and prevent attacks. 

“The Secure Firewall's ability to filter connections based on the country code of an IP address enables our clients to significantly reduce virus and malware threats from high risk areas they would normally not be doing business with," said Preston Hogue, chief security officer, Network Computing Architects, Inc.

Secure Firewall Geo-Location is available now and is a bundled feature with the company’s full range of appliance models starting at $1,900.