Alcatel-Lucent’s new operating system to quickly and easily secure corporate information in enterprise networks

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Paris, April 15, 2009– Alcatel-Lucent (Paris: Euronext and NYSE:ALU) today announced a new operating system including an advanced set offeatures that enable IT departments to quickly and easily secure their networkand unify access control for users and devices across an entire networkaccording to established security policies. With this new system, available onthe

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of LAN switches, IT administrators can also deliver

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to employees and guests while still securing corporateassets.

“IT departments want and need security solutions that are effective and easyto deploy. Alcatel-Lucent provides a set of global capabilities that enable anycompany or IT manager to secure their network quickly and easily and recognizea broader business value in policy-enabled security,” said Michel Emelianoff,Alcatel-Lucent vice president enterprise security solutions. “Our closerintegration with

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and this advanced feature set will enableorganizations to protect sensitive corporate information while still supportingevolving technology needs – such as VoIP and mobility – in the enterprise.”

Alcatel-Lucent customer, HanseatiCContor, providing outsourcing of sales andmarketing resources to clients, has deployed InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper HostIntegrity Check (HIC). The company needed a proven, enterprise-class networkaccess control solution to ensure the laptops used by its partners andconsultants have the latest software patches and anti-virus protection. Inaddition, InfoExpress CyberGatekeeper checks each endpoint to ensure it is notrunning any peer-to-peer applications in accordance with corporate securitypolicies. Endpoints that are out of compliance are immediately quarantined andremediated.

“Integration with CyberGatekeeper has allowed us to establish appropriatesecurity policies quickly and easily, enabling a much more secure environmentby keeping insecure devices off our network,” said Jens Kowalinski CEO ofHanseatiCContor. “CyberGatekeeper’s Host Integrity Check ensures that thedevices touching our network are up to date in all aspects of our securityrequirements, as well as ensures peer-peer applications are never running.”

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Alcatel-Lucent Operating System 6.3.4 release

This new release expands the OmniSwitches security features set enabling:

The network to evaluate and enforce endpoint device health: With theCyberGatekeeper Host Integrity Check agent now integrated into the OmniSwitch,it will restrict end-user access to remediation servers only.

The creation of easily defined “user profiles” mapped to network andsecurity policies: This allows an IT manager to set user profiles based onan individual’s role in the organization that define access for network,application, priority, bandwidth and compliance needs.

The delivery of captive portal as an explicit, web-based userauthentication option: Captive portal captures packets for anon-authenticated user and redirects to a predefined web page that asks theuser to provide his credentials to be authenticated before being allowed to thenetwork. This is in addition to already available authentication methodsthrough Alcatel-Lucent Access Guardian and safely allows controlled networkaccess for guests with uncontrolled endpoint devices.

In addition, this AOS release brings an entire set of new features improvingnetwork availability, performance and uptime, with in particular Ethernet RingProtection (ERP), compliant with ITU-T G.8032 standard, maintaining a loop-freetopology, data path redundancy and fast recovery times of less than 50milliseconds for Ethernet ring topologies.

About Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is the trusted partner of serviceproviders, enterprises and governments worldwide, providing solutions todeliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. A leader infixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applicationsand services, Alcatel-Lucent leverages the unrivalled technical and scientificexpertise of Bell Labs, one of the largest innovation powerhouses in thecommunications industry. With operations in more than 130 countries and themost experienced global services organization in the industry, Alcatel-Lucentis a local partner with a global reach. Alcatel-Lucent achieved revenues ofEuro 16.98 billion in 2008 and is incorporated in France, with executiveoffices located in Paris. For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on theInternet:http://www.alcatel-lucent.com

 

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