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Channelnomics   -   2.2.12
Beyond Vendor Growth Reports

“FireMon, the firewall management vendor spun-off from security integrator FishNet Security, reported 50 percent year-over-year sales growth in 2011 that propelled it to profitability. It also reported a “dramatic” growth in new customers.”
CRN   -   1.5.12
FireMon puts first feet on UK street

“Firewall management vendor FireMon is launching a European channel assault after hiring its first heads in the region. ”
Channelnomics   -   11.30.11
FireMon Redefines Risk to Lock Out Hackers

“Risk Analyzer’s approach is different from many conventional vulnerability scanners and risk management platforms that assess exposure based on the number of vulnerabilities and unpatched systems. It differs from conventional penetration testing tools, which are designed to find holes regardless of their likelihood of being exploited.”
Yahoo! Finance   -   11.30.11
FireMon’s Risk Analyzer Enables True Risk Analysis and Better Risk Management

“Debut of risk analysis solution introduces a new approach to risk-based network security ”
CRN   -   11.30.11
FireMon Unveils Network Security Analyzer

“Risk Analyzer crawls through a corporate network building a chart of the network systems that malware would travel through -- firewalls, switches, routers, proxies and intrusion detection and prevention systems. With the model, the tool presents a risk score that a company can use to determine whether subsequent actions taken actually decrease risk. ”
Reuters   -   11.30.11
FireMon`s Risk Analyzer Enables True Risk Analysis and Better Risk Management

“Using a patent-pending, risk scenario modeling methodology, Risk Analyzer analyzes network topology and host vulnerabilities to help enterprise security managers make risk-related decisions based on a realistic model of their actual risk. ”
CRN   -   4.25.11
FireMon Buys Risk Analysis Firm, Plans To Add Government VARs

“The acquisition will give FireMon a leg up over its competition with access to Saperix's risk analysis software, designed to quantify risk for enterprise organizations by generating accessible graphs that clearly identify the most critical threats attacking the company's network and subsequently the most effective security measures to combat them. ”
Channelnomics   -   4.22.11
FireMon Shows Benefit of Differentiation

“Perhaps 10 years from now the security world will mention FireMon in the same breath as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro. The spinoff of mega-integrator FishNet Security, already in growth mode, is spreading its wings further with the acquisition of privately held Saperix Technologies. ”
Dark Reading   -   4.20.11
Marketwire   -   4.19.11
Kansas City Business Journal   -   4.19.11
FireMon buys Saperix Technologies

“Software developer FireMon LLC has acquired a small technology company, Saperix Technologies, to help beef up its existing computer security products.”
Yahoo! Finance   -   4.19.11
FireMon Acquires Saperix Technologies, Expands Risk Analysis Offering

“FireMon Expands Security Operations Solution With Patented Risk Analysis Technology Developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory”
SC Magazine   -   12.8.10
2010 Industry Innovator: Secure Passage wins esteemed Industry Innovator Award in Policy Management

“... the basis for the company's products is the premise that firewall management is more than administration. It is, in fact, an entire process on top of administration that tests configurations against policy and manages firewall rule sets. ”
Computer Weekly   -   10.21.10
White Paper: Firewall Cleanup

“Firewalls are designed to provide access control. Although there is risk associated with any access, by limiting what access is permitted the risk is limited and understood and can be evaluated against business need to effectively justify the risk. ”
Computer Weekly   -   9.21.10
White Paper: Firewall Economics

“"There are three main processes that drive the firewall administrator’s responsibilities – the periodic changes made when adding, modifying, or removing rules from the rulebase, the ruleset audits and reviews in concert with security and compliance efforts, and log monitoring and review associated with forensics work."”
SC Magazine   -   9.7.10
Case study: A financial services company found help to monitor its configurations against internal and regulatory requirements...

“Todd Ferguson recently found himself up against the wall, a firewall that is. While his company faced several security challenges, ensuring that firewall policies met internal standards rose to the top of his priority list. ... While the team engaged with several vendors to develop support for its firewall operation, FireMon from Secure Passage rose to the top...”
CRN   -   7.27.10
Why bother optimising firewall rules?

“Effectively prioritising firewall rules enables compliance and IT efficiency.”
ChannelWeb   -   6.21.10
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. ”
Network World   -   3.16.10
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.”
IT Analysis   -   3.4.10
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. ”
IT Backbones   -   3.3.10
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. ”
IT Analysis   -   2.24.10
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.”
IT Backbones   -   2.9.10
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. ”
TMCnet   -   12.23.09
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. ”
Kansas City Business Journal   -   10.30.09
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.”
SC Magazine   -   10.1.09
Secure Passage FireMon v5.0

“We were very impressed with the out-of-the-box compliance reports, including PCI analysis and risk reporting, such as risky rule analysis. The out-of-the-box capabilities are also complemented by the users' ability to add custom policy reports based on specific policy requirements or unique compliance or analysis requirements.”
ChannelWeb   -   8.18.09
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. ”
SC Magazine   -   8.17.09
PCI: Prevention is the focus

“Secure Passage President/CTO Jody Brazil discusses what credit card companies do to “prevent” fraud? ”
internetnews.com   -   7.14.09
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. ”
Network World   -   7.14.09
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. ”
Dark Reading   -   5.27.09
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.”
Preach Security   -   5.1.09
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.”
Kansas City Business Journal   -   4.21.09
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.”
TMCnet   -   4.9.09
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.”
Kansas City Business Journal   -   4.7.09
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.”
eChannelLine   -   2.27.09
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.”
eWeek   -   2.25.09
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.”
eWeek   -   2.25.09
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.”
Dark Reading   -   2.24.09
Secure Passage Upgrades FireMon Security Analysis Solution

“Solution manages firewall, router, and switch rule bases, provides automated reports, ensures regulatory compliance, and more”
CIO Germany   -   2.24.09
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.”
Network World   -   2.24.09
Secure Passage releases a new version of its firewall-analysis tool

“FireMon detects potentially dangerous policy rules”
Channel Insider   -   2.23.09
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.”
Kansas City Business Journal   -   12.26.08
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.”
Kansas City Business Journal   -   11.19.08
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.”