NOTTINGHAM, England, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Finjan Vital Security Web Appliance Prevents Malicious Content
From Entering University's Network

The University of Nottingham has deployed real-time Web
security with enhanced browsing confidence to secure its infrastructure and
operations across its various campus locations from external threats. As well
as protecting a campus network containing 12,000 University-owned computers
used for teaching, research and administration, Nottingham also has a
separate network for undergraduates in University accommodation connecting a
further 8,000 student-owned PCs to campus resources and the Internet. The
University needed to secure these computers and protect the privacy of
students' personal information.

The Internet has become a critical resource for a wide range
of teaching and research activity for both staff and students but remains
liable to Web-borne attacks. Additionally, as a global academic enterprise
with an income of over GBP380 million, the University needed to secure its
critical business systems and protect the online activities of its
administrative staff. Protection against malicious code, spyware and
increasingly crimeware was a top priority.

The University has multiple gigabit connections to the East
Midlands Metropolitan Area network (EMMAN), which in turn connects it to the
UK Joint Academic Network (JANET). Following Information Services' extensive
investigation, including a number of other leading gateway products and an
on-campus evaluation, it opted for an integrated gateway solution based
around Finjan's large enterprise NG8000 appliance to provide a single point
of management for real-time Web content scanning and anti-virus through
multiple scanning blades. The Finjan solution has been integrated with the
University's existing Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) load balancer to
provide members with resilient Internet access via the multiple scanning
blades within the Finjan Blade centre.

"Increases in web-borne attacks mean that traditional
signature-based anti-virus software alone is not enough and can't give us the
protection we need against new and evolving malware threats. Students are
often heavy users of social networking and other collaborative Web 2.0
enabled sites which require more proactive threat detection and prevention
techniques," said Paul Kennedy, Security & Compliance Group Leader,
Information Services for The University of Nottingham. "During the initial
deployment we were able to identify a number of threats to the network that
had previously been difficult to detect. Active content scanning gives us an
additional tool in our armoury for detecting and preventing crimeware attacks
against University data and members' personal information."

Finjan's real-time content inspection technology is uniquely
capable of analysing Web content in real-time regardless of its source,
breaking down the code and understanding its true intent without executing it
on the end user's machine. Finjan delivers the highest rate of malicious code
detection and prevention, allowing universities to safeguard their most
valuable asset - their data.

"We are pleased with our deployment at the University of
Nottingham," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan. "The combination of
Finjan's patented real-time content inspection technology with Anti-Virus
capabilities will provide the University's researchers, teachers,
administrators and students with an excellent, layered web security
solution," he concluded.

The University's Information Services security staff can
manage activity via co-hosted policy server blades. These "all-in-one"
appliances feature Finjan's real-time content inspection, Vulnerability
Anti.dote(TM) and Anti-Spyware engines, as well as McAfee's fully integrated
Anti-Virus engine. It is deployed to provide coverage for the University's
five main campuses in Nottingham and nine satellite sites across the East
Midlands. It secures campus data centres, staff desktops, student laptops,
shared access computer rooms as well as a wide array of specialist laboratory
equipment and one of the most powerful high performance compute grids in the
UK.

By integrating several security engines in a single appliance,
Finjan's comprehensive and integrated Web security solution facilitates rapid
deployment, simplifies management, and reduces total cost of ownership. In
addition, the appliance's granular policy management lets the University of
Nottingham enforce a flexible Web browsing environment by defining specific
security policies for different parts of the network.

About The University of Nottingham

With origins dating back to 1881 and a Royal Charter granted in
1948, The University of Nottingham is a leading research university located
in the East Midlands region of England. It has more than 36,000 registered
students including over 7,500 international students from more than 145
countries. The university ranks in the Top 10 of the best universities in the
UK, the Top 25 in Europe, and the Top 70 worldwide according to independent
league tables.

In 1999, it opened an overseas campus in Malaysia and recently
launched The University of Nottingham Ningbo in China. Alumni include the
author DH Lawrence as well as Professor Sir Clive Granger, winner of the
Nobel Prize for Economic Science in 2003. The university also has its own
Nobel Prize winner - Professor Sir Peter Mansfield who won the Nobel Prize
for Medicine for his work in the application of magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI).

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk

About Finjan

Finjan is a global provider of web security solutions for the enterprise
market. Our real-time, appliance-based web security solutions deliver the
most effective shield against web-borne threats, freeing enterprises to
harness the web for maximum commercial results. Finjan's real-time web
security solutions utilize patented behavior-based technology to repel all
types of threats arriving via the web, such as spyware, phishing, Trojans and
obfuscated malicious code, securing businesses against unknown and emerging
threats, as well as known malware. Finjan's security solutions have received
industry awards and recognition from leading analyst houses and publications,
including IDC, Butler Group, SC Magazine, CRN, ITPro, PCPro, ITWeek, Network
Computing, and Information Security. With Finjan's award-winning and widely
used solutions, businesses can focus on implementing web strategies to
realize their full organizational and commercial potential. For more
information about Finjan, please visit: http://www.finjan.com.

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