7.27.10
CRN
Why bother optimising firewall rules?
“Effectively prioritising firewall rules enables compliance and IT efficiency.”
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7.21.10
Channel Insider
Secure Passage Integrates with SIEM
“Security information and event management systems have been on a collision course with log management for some time. Now, with an announcement by Secure Passage, those two technologies will begin colliding with configuration tools.”
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6.21.10
ChannelWeb
Secure Passage Makes the CRN 2010 Emerging Security Vendors List
“Security Up And Comers: Secure Passage one of 25 security vendors that made the CRN 2010 Emerging Vendors report. ”
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3.16.10
Network World
Firewall Configurations Can Be Hard To Manage, Sounds Like A Job For Open Source
“For many people network security starts and stops with firewalls. The foundational technology of perimeter based security, firewalls have grown more complex and sophisticated over the years. Today keeping your firewall rule set tuned and managing complex firewall configurations is a job often best left to experts.”
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3.4.10
IT Analysis
Secure Passage launches new firewall & network device policy solution - FireMon 5.1
“Secure Passage, the leading provider of firewall policy, risk and compliance management solutions, today announced the release of FireMon 5.1. This latest version in the FireMon eVolution line extends the already in-depth analysis and compliance capability of the FireMon platform, helping customers increase operational efficiency. ”
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3.3.10
IT Backbones
Secure Passage and F5 Team Up to deliver FireMon Support for F5 BIG-IP Devices
“Secure Passage, a provider of innovative security management solutions, today announced FireMon support for F5 BIG-IP solutions through the F5 Networks' Technology Alliance Program (TAP). By partnering with F5, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, Secure Passage gains access to F5 technology solutions and resources, maximising the value of deploying the companies' products together. ”
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3.3.10
Infosecurity Europe
Secure Passage and F5 Team Up to Deliver FireMon Support for F5 BIG-IP Devices
“Secure Passage, a provider of innovative security management solutions, today announced FireMon support for F5 BIG-IP solutions through the F5 Networks' Technology Alliance Program (TAP). By partnering with F5, the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, Secure Passage gains access to F5 technology solutions and resources, maximising the value of deploying the companies' products together. ”
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2.24.10
IT Analysis
Secure Passage Launches FireMon Nexus Online Community
“Secure Passage today announced the launch of FireMon Nexus, available at https://nexus.securepassage.com/. FireMon Nexus is the industry's first online community bringing together the brightest network engineers to collaborate, create and share security and compliance extensions (downloadable plug-ins) for FireMon, the leading firewall and network device management and analysis solution.”
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2.23.10
Dark Reading
Firewalls And DIY Plug-Ins
“Firewall management vendor Secure Passage is now hosting a collaborative online community for its customers to write extensions for its FireMon product. While the so-called Nexus community is basically a continuation of an existing program for which Secure Passage's customers are able to use a Firemon framework to write their own extensions internally, this opens the door for its customers to collaborate and share these plug-ins with one another. ”
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2.9.10
IT Backbones
Secure Passage Reports 80% Revenue and 50% Customer-base Growth in the Firewall Management Market in 2009
“Secure Passage, the leading provider of firewall and network device policy management solutions, today announced a record-breaking year with strong growth in both Europe and the Americas. ”
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12.23.09
TMCnet
Demand Spikes for Firewall Management Applications
“Data security is top of mind of most IT administrators in a never-ending battle against cybercriminals. A report released earlier this year, “Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information” by Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security and sponsored byMcAfee, revealed that cybercrime may have cost businesses on average $4.6 million from data and intellectual property exposure in 2008. ”
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10.30.09
Kansas City Business Journal
Secure Passage Has a Chance at a Big Revenue Jump
“The first half of 2009 came with frosty economic air, but Secure Passage LLC’s newest FireMon software has helped bring a thaw.”
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10.1.09
SC Magazine
Secure Passage FireMon v5.0
“Read this review to find out why SC Magazine said "we are very impressed." ”
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8.18.09
ChannelWeb
Secure Passage Takes Charge of Firewall Management
“Why You Should Care: Few customers are prepared to manage a barrage of complicated security policies required by compliance mandates. That's where Secure Passage comes in. The Lowdown: There are firewall and network vendors. And then there are vendors that manage firewall and network policies. Secure Passage does the latter. ”
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8.17.09
SC Magazine
PCI: Prevention is the focus
“Secure Passage President/CTO Jody Brazil discusses what credit card companies do to “prevent” fraud? ”
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7.14.09
internetnews.com
Enterprise Software Looks to Ease IT Management
“Firewalls Even technologies that aren't new may not be simple to deploy. Enterprise IT managers have known since at least the year 2000 that personal firewalls need to be buttressed by enterprise firewalls.

Enterprise firewalls aren't easy to manage, however. ”
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7.14.09
Network World
Secure Passage boosts firewall monitoring
“Secure Passage is adding life-cycle management of firewall rules to its firewall analysis software, creating a way to avoid bloated and redundant rules that can slow performance. FireMon 5.0, called eVolution, keeps track of the workflow needed to request, create, verify and correct rules. It can remind firewall administrators of rules that are due to expire and perhaps need to be deleted. ”
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5.27.09
Dark Reading
Secure Passage Offers Free Firewall Auditing Tool For PCI
“Secure Passage, the leading supplier of firewall policy, risk and compliance management solutions, today announced Secure Passage Firewall Auditor, an application that enables IT administrators to quickly and easily evaluate firewall configurations, policies and rules for security and compliance.”
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5.1.09
Preach Security
Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere
“As you may have noticed - people have stopped talking about firewalls. Of course, it could be because they've effectively become a commodity item and there aren't many differences in them anymore... at least none that make you go "Wow, that's cool!" -that is until one day you look and you have several hundred of them because they've multiplied like rabbits.”
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4.21.09
Kansas City Business Journal
Secure Passage sees revenue jump 161 percent
“Secure Passage LLC’s revenue spiked 161 percent in the first quarter from the same period last year, a sign that the company’s aggressive growth plans for 2009 may be materializing.”
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4.9.09
TMCnet
FireMon Conquers 'Out of Control' Firewall Policies: Secure Passage CTO
“Secure Passage provides security analysis and compliance solutions. They recently announced FireMon, an automated security analysis and compliance solution for firewalls, routers and switches. Its fully automated functionality delivers substantial ROI by reducing the number of resources needed to perform analysis and audit processes.”
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4.7.09
Elevator Pitch
Secure Passage, FireMon Brief Overview
“A short video of Secure Passage's President and CTO giving a brief overview of the company, and their flagship product FireMon.”
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4.7.09
Kansas City Business Journal
Secure Passage names Brazil as president, chief technology officer
“The Overland Park-based company said in a Tuesday release that Brazil would lead policy-setting and strategic direction as Secure Passage ramps up growth, maneuvers through a changing security solutions market and handles rising global demand for its flagship FireMon software package, which manages companies’ network security policies.”
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3.12.09
Government Security News
Firewall policy management: the ins and outs
“In December 2008, a presenter at the SC World Congress in New York made a case for effective firewall policy management in relationship to Homeland Security. The speaker stated that a successful cyber-attack on the Department of Defense would be akin to someone strolling through the Pentagon’s front doors and wheeling out filing cabinets full of top-secret files.”
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2.27.09
eChannelLine
Most firewall policies out of control, too complex
“A survey of 253 IT network, firewall and security executives from Fortune 1000 companies found that poor firewall management practices are creating security gaps, compliance violations, substandard firewall performance and premature device purchases.”
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2.25.09
eWeek
Network Firewall Management Tools from Third-Party Vendors Gain Ground Among Enterprises
“Secure Passage and other third-party firewall management vendors are playing in a small but growing market. Some analysts say third-party firewall auditing and management tools will have a place in the market until Cisco, Juniper Networks and other firewall vendors build out their capabilities.”
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2.25.09
eWeek
Lowering the Cost of Security
“In this eWeek podcast hosted by Mike Vizard, Secure Passage CTO Jody Brazil talks about the need for a more intelligent approach to managing diverse sets of firewall technologies.”
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2.24.09
CIO Germany
Secure Passage intros new version of firewall-analysis tool
“Secure Passage is rolling out a new version of its firewall analysis and compliance-verification software that identifies unintentionally allowed risky behavior on business networks.”
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2.24.09
msnbc
Secure Passage Automated Security Analysis and Compliance Solution Conquers Out of Control Firewall Policies
“FireMon for Firewalls, Routers and Switches Provides Over 200 Customers With Absolute Confidence in Security and Compliance for Over 25,000 Distributed Network Devices From Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, and McAfee”
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2.24.09
Dark Reading
Secure Passage Upgrades FireMon Security Analysis Solution
“Solution manages firewall, router, and switch rule bases, provides automated reports, ensures regulatory compliance, and more”
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2.24.09
Network World
Secure Passage releases a new version of its firewall-analysis tool
“FireMon detects potentially dangerous policy rules”
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2.24.09
OneStopClick
Managed firewall understanding 'poor'
“Poor use of managed firewalls is leading to gaps in company security policy, compliance violations and substandard firewall performance, according to a study.”
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2.23.09
Channel Insider
Innovating a Secure Passage
“Gary Fish isn’t interested in creating the next greatest security vendor with his creation, Secure Passage. But the company that he spun off five years ago from his integration business, FishNet Security, may provide a lesson for other solution providers seeking to differentiate themselves from the rest of the marketplace.”
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12.26.08
Kansas City Business Journal
FishNet spinoff hopes to secure its passage to growth
“Since spinning off from FishNet Security Inc. in 2004, Secure Passage LLC has been growing at a steady clip of 10 percent to 20 percent a year.”
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11.25.08
Kansas City Star
Noteworthy: Secure Passage to move from KC to Overland Park
“The new headquarters will accommodate future growth, said chief operating officer Rob Bykowski.”
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11.19.08
Kansas City Business Journal
Secure Passage will move HQ to Overland Park from KC
“Plans to ramp up growth in 2009 prompted network security company Secure Passage LLC to move from Kansas City to a larger Overland Park headquarters.”
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