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Secure Computing’s TrustedSource adds an essential layer of protection to guard against today’s most advanced threats, including insidious Web-borne malware, morphing viruses, targeted phishing attacks and more, while eliminating as much as 90 percent of incoming spam before it enters the network gateway, saving significant bandwidth. It is the most precise and comprehensive Internet host reputation system in the world. It works by accumulating data from over 7000 sensors in 82 countries, creating a real-time profile of all suspicious activity and content, and then watching for deviations based upon expected behavior. The system turns this information into "reputation scores" that enable it to quickly and proactively identify and accurately reject or quarantine unwanted traffic from illegitimate or “suspect” sources.

The TrustedSource Alliance is a partnership among best-of-breed original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), software and service providers. They are making the Internet safer by leveraging the TrustedSource global intelligence system to provide proactive real-time protection for networks.

“Secure Computing was quick to realize the need for reputation services as a way to enhance and differentiate its technology,” said Charlotte Dunlap, senior analyst, Enterprise Security at Current Analysis. “The continual increase in spam attacks has prompted infrastructure providers to include reputation services as part of their solutions. We believe enterprise customers should consider reputation services an important buying criteria for these solutions.”

As partners join the TrustedSource Alliance, the reputation system continually expands its knowledge base about the various types of Internet traffic. As partners continue to deploy solutions that integrate or interoperate with TrustedSource, the global sensor network increases allowing TrustedSource to both gather and disseminate additional knowledge and insight about the latest threats. The additional knowledge provided by TrustedSource enables appliances and services to block attacks quicker and offer a higher level of proactive protection for electronic communications and transactions between people, companies and countries.

“The need for reputation-based systems is clearly on the rise in order to filter spam and other message security threats—before it enters the corporate network,” said Jim Ritchings, vice president of Business Development for F5. “We recognized the immediate and measurable value that TrustedSource could bring to F5 customers and delivered the BIG-IP Message Security Module in partnership with Secure Computing. Making TrustedSource available through Secure Computing’s Alliance Program will certainly benefit the general market.”

Join The TrustedSource Alliance

Companies interested in capitalizing on the TrustedSource reputation technology should visit the TrustedSource Alliance Website. For more information: www.securecomputing.com/TrustedSourceAlliance

TrustedSource Alliance Partners:

Cymtec Systems, Inc.

Cymtec Systems develops network security and performance management products and services that deliver simplicity of use and low cost of ownership. These qualities are fueling rapid growth in markets that have been burdened by overly complex and expensive security and performance solutions that were designed for organizations with very different functional needs.

The partnership with Cymtec Systems has led to the integration of Cymtec Sentry® 2.0 Dynamic Threat Protection (DTP) engine with TrustedSource through the Secure Computing Secure Web (formerly known as SmartFilter®) solution. The two security vendors have joined forces to improve network security and performance management for remote and branch office environments. Cymtec Sentry, combined with Secure Computing’s Secure Web, adds another level of security to solutions such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and anti-virus software. This new class of unified remote and branch office protection provides a simple, cost-effective method for stopping the uncontrolled spread of threats that evade traditional perimeter and host defenses.

Foundry Networks

Foundry Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance enterprise and service provider switching, routing, security and Web traffic management solutions. Foundry’s customers include the world’s premier ISPs, metro service providers, and enterprises, including e-commerce sites, universities, entertainment, health and wellness, government, financial and manufacturing companies.

The partnership between Foundry and Secure Computing has led to the interoperability of SecureIron with TrustedSource through the Secure Computing Secure Web (formerly known as Webwasher®) solution, and delivers customers advanced application-layer intelligence and network perimeter security, coupled with powerful Web filtering and Web 2.0 threat protection. Secure Web’s URL filtering allows SecureIron to permit or deny access to a Web site, based on each company’s individual access policies. Customers will also receive top-performance throughput, and a single point of control for all major perimeter security functions.

F5 Networks

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, providing solutions that make applications secure, fast and available. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload functions (such as anti-spam scanning), F5 optimizes applications like email and enables on-demand, secure performance while reducing resource consumption. Over 16,000 organizations trust F5 to keep their applications running, and more secure.

The partnership between F5 and Secure Computing provides F5 customers with a groundbreaking new solution: the BIG-IP™ Messaging Security Module™ (MSM). This add-on module for BIG-IP enables customers to stop unwanted email at the edge of the network by leveraging Secure Computing TrustedSource. BIG-IP checks every incoming email connection against TrustedSource’s reputation score. The accuracy of TrustedSource scores enable confident decision-making without inspecting the email message. This solution from F5 provides an affordable way for companies to deal with the rapid growth of spam, without box proliferation on the network or taking up valuable rack space and power.

Riverbed Technology

Riverbed offers a complete wide-area data services (WDS) solution that accelerates applications and data for remote offices, data centers, and mobile workers across wide area networks (WANs), accelerating access to applications and data up to 100 times faster. The speed, simplicity and scale delivered by Riverbed WDS solutions allow organizations to be more nimble, flexible, and competitive by enabling IT consolidation without sacrificing user performance, allowing higher productivity for remote offices, eliminating end user frustration caused by slow applications, dramatically shortening backup and replication times, reducing traffic on WANs up to 95%, and even enabling mobile workers to be significantly more productive.

The partnership between Riverbed and Secure Computing provides best-of-breed security and application acceleration solutions to enterprise customers for managing their distributed workforces. The partnership takes advantage of complementary capabilities of the companies' two product lines – Riverbed Steelhead and Secure Computing’s Secure Web – and the ability to cross-sell to their broad global customer bases. By taking part in the TrustedSource Alliance, Riverbed is able to provide existing and new customers the most complete and comprehensive solution available in the industry.

Webroot

Webroot provides industry-leading security solutions to consumers, enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses worldwide. The Boulder, Colorado based company’s newest security software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings deliver manageability, value and protection. Webroot also delivers award-winning endpoint products for comprehensive, centrally-managed solutions that aggressively block, detect and eradicate malware on desktops across the network. The partnership with Webroot will lead to the integration of Webroot’s latest security SaaS solutions with TrustedSource through the Secure Computing Secure Web solution. The two security vendors have joined forces to improve network security and deliver the best security in an unsecured world.

About Secure Computing
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ:SCUR), a leading provider of enterprise gateway security, delivers a comprehensive set of solutions that help customers protect their critical Web, email and network assets. Over half the Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 are part of our more than 22,000 global customers, supported by a worldwide network of more than 2,000 partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information, see http://www.securecomputing.com.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to Secure Computing’s TrustedSource Alliance and the expected benefits of such technology, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays in product development, undetected software errors or bugs, competitive pressures, technical difficulties, changes in customer requirements, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Secure Computing’s periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Media Contact:

Paula Dunne

Contos Dunne Communications

408-776-1400; 408-893-8750 cell

paula@contosdunne.com

SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 8, 2008 –Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security provider, today unveiled TrustedSource^™ Alliance, a new partner program that makes the world’s leading reputation-based security system, TrustedSource, available to partners for integration into, or interoperability with their products and solutions. The alliance benefits end-user customers of all participating companies by adding an important advanced layer of protection based upon the reputation system’s ability to track, in real-time, the trustworthiness of global IP addresses, domains, Web sites, message content and images. TrustedSource Alliance members include Brightfilter, Cymtec Systems, F5, Foundry Networks, InternetSafety.com, MarkMonitor, Riverbed Technology and Webroot.

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