Tripwire Becomes Juniper Partner

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tripwire®, Inc., the world leader in integrity assurance, today announced their acceptance into Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: JNPR - News) OSS Alliance Partner Program. With this agreement, Tripwire provides a rich solution for network visibility and control enabling Juniper Networks customers to close the loop on change and configuration management processes, keeping systems running securely, reliably and efficiently. Tripwire complements Juniper Networks highly available, high performance routing platforms and J-Protect Security Toolkit to keep businesses operating at optimal performance. Tripwire joins Juniper Networks Operations Support Systems (OSS) Alliance Program which identifies best-in-class partners to deliver integrated solutions to help customers rapidly and profitably implement new network solutions. OSS Alliance partners develop applications that extend the functionality of Juniper Networks products to deliver robust and flexible network management solutions. These interoperable solutions are ideally suited for rapid service deployment and for increasing operational efficiencies that lower the cost of overall IT operations. Juniper Networks partners offer best-in-class functionality and selects partners based on their business and technical leadership as well as their customer and market traction.

"The single greatest risk to the security and stability of IT operations is undetected change to servers and network devices. Eighty percent of downtime can be attributed to misconfigurations from administrators who have access to the devices, not malicious attacks," said Dwayne Melancon, vice president of marketing, support and service at Tripwire. "We're pleased to partner with Juniper Networks to provide customers with a way to effectively control change and proactively instill process accountability for security and system availability."

Tripwire for Network Devices monitors switch or router configurations and provides instant notification of internal and external changes, automated rollback, and complete audit trails of all changes to devices. The solution ensures streamlined operational efficiencies providing rapid change discovery, device recovery and detailed change audit reports allowing enterprises to more optimally use their critical resources.

"Integrity management is a key part of ensuring a network is operating efficiently and securely," said Tony Scarfo, director of new market development, Juniper Networks. "Tripwire for Network Devices provides our customers with detailed visibility into network device changes and provides key information for ensuring the stability of overall business processes."

"Manageability is the cornerstone of gaining control over the enterprise network," said Zeus Kerravala, vice president of Enterprise Infrastructure at The Yankee Group. "Since enterprise networks are made up of a variety of vendors and products, best-of-breed vendors must work together to improve manageability and security in the enterprise network by offering unified solutions."

Tripwire for Network Devices is a heterogeneous integrity management solution for assuring the availability and security of routers, switches and firewalls. The centrally managed software detects and reports changes to configuration files, enabling immediate restoration to a desired state, with a choice of manual or automatic rollback capability. A history of changes is securely logged for accountability, audit preparedness and to demonstrate regulation compliance. Uncontrolled change, whether accidental or intentional, causes staff inefficiencies and results in downtime for critical systems. Tripwire ensures uptime and reduces business risk by automating the daily tasks of network administrators providing lockdown functionality.

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