Infoblox Boosts Security for Critical Government Network Systems with Support for Common Access Card (CAC) Smart Cards

Infoblox Inc. (NYSE:BLOX) today announced that the Infoblox Trinzic™ family of automated network control systems now supports Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards, ensuring that only approved IT professionals are authorized to access and perform changes on Infoblox systems. The two-factor authentication enabled by support for these cards is a compliance requirement for access to critical U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and other Federal government agencies’ computer systems.

Infoblox pioneered development of automated network control solutions that deliver essential network services, including domain name resolution and IP address assignment, which are foundational to every IP-based computer network and required to connect users and devices to a network, applications and the Internet. If these services are down or compromised, the connections can grind to a halt.

Infoblox’s solutions are currently installed at many U.S. Federal government agencies. To comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), many Federal agencies are under mounting pressure to install added security mechanisms for their computer networks. Infoblox now offers these agencies and other customers with strict security postures, such as finance and healthcare organizations, an added level of security with built-in support for CAC and PIV smart cards that facilitate the use of PKI authentication tools and establish an authoritative process for the use of identity credentials.

Without embedded support for CAC or other smart cards, administrators of networks that require two-factor authentication must create custom scripts, resulting in costs for software development and ongoing maintenance.

“Infoblox is pleased to be the only provider of essential DNS, DHCP and IPAM platforms to support CAC and PIV cards ‘out of the box’; this underscores the Company’s commitment to meet its customer’s requirements, help maintain network integrity and 24x7 availability, and reduce complexity and costs,” says Kevin Dickson, Vice President of Product Management at Infoblox.

The Infoblox Trinzic™ solution with built-in support for CAC and PIV smart cards offers:

• Enhanced Login: Automatically populates user name field from the smart card certificate.
• Easy, Scalable Configuration: Allows administrators to easily add any number of responses and integrates easily with most smart card product offerings.
• Ability to Test Configurations: Allows assessment of responder communications for easier, more reliable configurations.
• Full Logging of Successful and Unsuccessful Authentication: Streamlines the audit process and helps IT teams identify errors and issues on the network.
• Access Control: Supports the security of two-factor authentication the entire time a user is logged into the Infoblox interface.

For more information about Infoblox Smart Card Support and Federal solutions, visit: http://www.infoblox.com/en/solutions/government/federal-government.html.

Availability

The new PIV and CAC smart card support is now available with Infoblox NIOS™ version 6.4. Infoblox customers with a valid support contract can access the software using their assigned support login.

About Infoblox

Infoblox (NYSE:BLOX) delivers Automated Network Control solutions, the fundamental technology that connects end users, devices and networks. These solutions enable more than 5,400 enterprises and service providers to transform and scale complex networks. Infoblox helps take the burden of complex network control out of human hands, reduce costs, and increase accuracy and uptime. Infoblox is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has additional operations in 30 countries.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the U.S. Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to the benefits to be realized by our government and other large customers from the use of our support of CAC and PIV. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, the following: rapid technological change that can harm the demand for our solutions by government agencies and large enterprises, design flaws in the CAC and PIV support, shifts in customer demand, shifts in strategic relationships especially by our competitors, delays in our ability to deliver or decisions to discontinue its products and services, or announcements by competitors. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Infoblox’s periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. Infoblox is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Information contained in our website is not incorporated by reference in, or made part of this press release.