Secure Computing Corporation has announced the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation of the Cryptographic Module for SecureOS, the cryptographic engine on the company's Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance and the Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager.

The FIPS 140-2 standard, applicable to all Federal Agencies, specifies the security requirements that must be satisfied by cryptographic modules deployed to protecting sensitive or valuable information. Secure Computing's Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance offers a high level of gateway security and is widely deployed to protect networks, including many in the US Government. This certificate of validation was awarded by the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) - a program established and operated jointly by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE). The CMVP validates compliance of cryptographic modules to FIPS 140-2 and other cryptography-based standards.

The Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance is a comprehensive unified threat management (UTM) gateway security appliance. It is comprised of a wide variety of Internet security functions, including an Application Defenses firewall with embedded anti-virus, anti-spam, traffic anomaly detection, IDS/IPS, and a host of other critical protective features. The Cryptographic Module for SecureOS provides cryptographic services for applications on various versions of Sidewinder G2 Security Appliance and Sidewinder G2 Enterprise Manager. Sidewinder G2 is certified at the highest level of EAL4 Common Criteria certification possible as an application firewall and has never been compromised.

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csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/1401/1401val2006.htm
www.securecomputing.com

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