ICL and Trusted Computer Solutions to Provide Military-Grade Security Solutions to NATO
ICL to distribute security solutions from TCS hosted on Sun's Trusted Solaris to 19 European Countries including NATO
WASHINGTON, DC June 15, 1999 - AFCEA GovTechNet Symposium - International Computers, Ltd. (ICL), a global supplier of IT systems and services, and Trusted Computer Solutions, Inc. (TCS), a leader in the delivery of expert security solutions for the U.S. Government, today announced that ICL will distribute the TCSecure™ family of commercial Internet security solutions.
TCSecure™ is a new family of network security solutions from TCS that are designed to solve security issues associated with conducting business over the Internet using military-grade security. TCSecure™ is the only suite of ITSEC certified Trusted Solaris security solutions available on the market today and supports enterprise scalability using the Sun Microsystems' (NASDAQ:SUNW) UltraSPARC™ family (Ultra™ Workstations through the Ultra Enterprise™ 6500 Servers).
"TCS is delighted to have ICL as a Trusted Systems Provider delivering high quality security solutions to Government and commercial customers. We look forward to working with ICL in the future to jointly deliver innovative security solutions in Europe," said Michael K. Burgoon President of TCS. "ICL will serve a wide range of European customers including NATO, defense agencies and commercial organizations" said Mr. Burgoon.
Torben Michaels, of ICL Denmark operations, explains: "TCS recognizes ICL's ability to deliver consistent, quality security solutions to Government and commercial customers, ensuring complete protection of mission critical systems. ICL is committed to a successful partnership with TCS to offer next generation security solutions hosted on Sun Microsystems' Trusted Solaris™." Sun's Trusted Solaris™ is ITSEC certified at the E3/FB-1 and E3/FC-2 (Labeled Security Protection) level of assurance. This certification ensures that ICL customers have access to the most advanced secure solutions on the market.
Sun's Trusted Solaris™ operating system is revolutionizing the Internet security marketplace by providing military-grade protection that is rare among UNIX vendors. Trusted Solaris™ provides high-assurance security that is robust, flexible and completely interoperable with existing customer environments.
ICL will offer European Governments, defense agencies and commercial organizations specialized security solutions from TCS. Available TCSecure™ configurations include:
TCSecure:eGate™ - Secure Internet Gateway
TCSecure:eServer™ - Secure Web Application Server
TCSecure:eProxy™ - Secure Internet Proxy Gateway
TCSecure:eMilProxy™ - Secure US Military Proxy Gateway
TCSecure:eVPN™ - Secure Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
TCSecure:eFilter™ - Embedded IP Packet Filtering
TCSecure:AdminSuite™ - Secure System Configuration & Administration for Trusted Solaris
About ICL
Headquartered in the UK, ICL is a leading supplier of IT systems and services. Operating in over 70 countries and employing over 19,000 people, the Group's revenues for 1997 were £2,477.1 million generating a pre-tax profit of £30.0 million. The company implements IT systems for major projects and provides innovative services to a range of industries covering amongst others, retail, finance, travel, telecoms and utilities together with education, local and central government sectors. Its services include outsourcing, helpdesks, network services, inter/intranets, electronic commerce, interactive kiosks, smart card systems, digital cities and web sites. ICL plans to relist on the stock market in 2000. ICL's website: http://www.icl.co.uk.
About Trusted Computer Solutions
TCS, headquartered in Herndon, VA, holds technical professional services contracts with numerous civilian and defense agencies. The company’s core capabilities include: system and network security assessments, system security engineering, design and development of secure systems solutions, secure communications, and INFOSEC applications.
Providing enterprise-level information security products and services since 1994, TCS’s flagship products are SecureOffice and TCSecure, which feature next generation security technology. Many DOD, sensitive Government agencies, and commercial organizations use the company’s products for its integrated authentication, encryption and high assurance protection of critical infrastructure information. TCSecure, targeted to the commercial world, is ideal for establishing secure Intranets to deploy secure business-to-business capabilities to make meaningful electronic commerce between partners a reality.
TCS personnel have worked on high profile security solutions that meet today’s requirements for high assurance security and TCS personnel helped develop the National Security Agency's security analysis methodology for assessing system security and risk. TCS is the only commercial entity to successfully develop a commercial product based upon multilevel secure (MLS) technology, have it sponsored and fielded by numerous major Defense organizations, accredited by the Defense Intelligence Agency, and successfully profiled by the National Security Agency.
Product and security information, white papers and the company’s latest news releases may be accessed via TCS’s World Wide Web site at http://www.tcs-sec.com.
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TCS, TCSecure and/or other Trusted Computer Solutions products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks Trusted Computer Solutions in the U.S. and/or other countries. Sun, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Trusted Solaris and/or other Sun products are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein might be the trademarks of their respective owners. Certain TCS products include software developed by the Apache Group for use in the Apache HTTP server project (http://www.apache.org/).
