Sydney, Australia – May 25, 2010 – M86 Security, the global expert in real-time Web and email threat protection, has received a Highly Commended award for the SC Magazine Product of the Year category at AusCERT 2010 for its Secure Web Gateway product.

“We are delighted to achieve Highly Commended for SC Magazine Product of the Year at AusCERT. It is a great achievement and speaks to the effectiveness of the product to be recognised so soon after its release into the market,” said Jeremy Hulse, Vice President [...]]]> The company’s Secure Web Gateway solution achieves a Highly Commended award at AusCERT 2010

Sydney, Australia – May 25, 2010 – M86 Security, the global expert in real-time Web and email threat protection, has received a Highly Commended award for the SC Magazine Product of the Year category at AusCERT 2010 for its Secure Web Gateway product.

“We are delighted to achieve Highly Commended for SC Magazine Product of the Year at AusCERT. It is a great achievement and speaks to the effectiveness of the product to be recognised so soon after its release into the market,” said Jeremy Hulse, Vice President APAC, M86 Security.

“Employees are now more dependent on the Web for research, information or collaboration with suppliers and customers. M86 Security Labs discovered that legitimate Web sites now comprise the majority of infected sites. Our Secure Web Gateway solution offers peace of mind, protecting organisations against malware and crimeware in real time without hindering staff access to the internet. This enables the workforce the freedom to do what they need to as part of their job,” Mr. Hulse continued.

The M86 Secure Web Gateway is a proactive, appliance-based solution that provides real-time Web security, increases productivity, ensures compliance and controls bandwidth. Using patented real-time malware detection technology, URL filtering and anti-virus scanning, the solution protects organisations from the threats associated with Web 2.0 applications.

The key differentiator of the M86 Secure Web Gateway product is its patented real-time code analysis engine which scans each and every piece of incoming and outgoing Web content, including HTTP/HTTPS information. The intent of the code is analyzed for criminal or dubious action in real time regardless of its originating URL and without signature matching. This enables it to detect and block crimeware, targeted attacks and other malicious web content even when the malware is hidden in SSL traffic.

In addition, the Dynamic Web Repair feature enables users safe and unhindered access to the internet. Malicious scripts on an HTML page are seamlessly removed and the safe Web content are repaired and delivered to users without having to block the entire Web page; ensuring continued worker productivity.

M86’s Secure Web Gateway has already received a number of international industry accolades and 5-star ratings. The company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Visionaries quadrant of the research firm’s report on Secure Web Gateway (SWG). ⁱ

ⁱ Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway” by Peter Firstbrook, Lawrence Orans, January 8, 2010.

About M86 Security
M86 Security is the global expert in real-time threat protection and the industry’s leading Secure Web Gateway provider. The company’s appliance, software, and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for Web and email security protect more than 24,000 customers and over 17 million users worldwide. M86 products use patented real-time code analysis and behaviour-based malware detection technologies as well as threat intelligence from M86 Security Labs to protect networks against new and advanced threats, secure confidential information, and ensure regulatory compliance. The company is based in Orange, California with international headquarters in London and development centers in California, Israel, and New Zealand.

The award was announced at this week’s annual AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast and recognises the vendor which has increased customer satisfaction, improved profitability or IT security, been a leader in innovation and is seen as an influencer of industry best practice.

“The overall high and uniform levels of satisfaction among its Australian users and channel partners influenced the panel’s decision [...]]]> Sydney – May 20, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that it has been named Vendor of The Year at the 2010 Secure Computing (Australia) Awards for outstanding achievement in information technology (IT) security.

The award was announced at this week’s annual AusCERT conference on the Gold Coast and recognises the vendor which has increased customer satisfaction, improved profitability or IT security, been a leader in innovation and is seen as an influencer of industry best practice.

“The overall high and uniform levels of satisfaction among its Australian users and channel partners influenced the panel’s decision to hand WatchGuard the gong for the SC Awards Vendor of the Year. In the past year, the vendor has refitted its local channel programme to strengthen its partners against the headwinds caused by the global economic slowdown while working to integrate its Borderware acquisition into the fabric of its lineup and refining its offerings,” said Nate Cochrane, Editor-in-Chief, SC Magazine Australia. “The SC Awards panel was impressed with the depth of WatchGuard’s Australian presence in a broad range of industries and the public sector.”

The award was adjudicated by an expert panel of consultants, chief technology officers, lab directors and former law enforcement officers. These judges are hand-picked by SC Magazine’s editorial team for their breadth of knowledge and experience in the information security industry. They include Keith Price, National Director of the Australian Information Security Association; Joel Hatton, Senior Computer Security Analyst with AusCERT; Ajoy Ghosh, Chief Information Security Officer at Logica; Tim Ebringer, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft; and security industry consultants, including Phil Kernick who holds CISSP and Cisco CCSP security certifications, and Nigel Phair, Senior Fellow within the Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention.

Scott Robertson, Regional Director ANZ, WatchGuard Technologies, said, “We are both honoured and thrilled to win Vendor of the Year. This award is testament to the success of both our Australian channel partners and our employees in their combined ability to drive success for customers with our offering of high-performance security solutions that protect mission critical networks, application and data. The award validates what thousands of customers already benefit from in choosing WatchGuard – the best value, performance, capability and functionality for IT security needs.”

As the industry’s preeminent awards program, the annual SC Awards has recognised security’s key contributors and outstanding products for the past two years. The SC Awards honour the professionals, companies and products that help fend off the myriad of security threats confronted in today’s corporate world. Individuals, brands and solutions recognised in the program address not only the security challenges prominent today, but also the emerging threat landscape of tomorrow.

SC Awards entries are judged by a panel of leading security officers from large, medium and small enterprises from all major vertical markets – representing the wide distribution of SC Magazine readers.

 
About SC Magazine
SC Magazine provides IT security professional with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought-leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.
WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

  With the progressively prevalent risks to network security compounded by remote working and social media, businesses are seeking ways to effectively secure digital [...]]]>

27 April 2010, Bristol, UK: Authentication authority CRYPTOCard has unveiled a series of
innovative developments within its unique cloud-based authentication service CRYPTOMAS.
The company is making java based mobile phone tokens available with its global
managed authentication service as well as an SMS gateway feature, increasing the
overall functionality of the product in response to customer demand for mobile and
tokenless authentication solutions.

 
With the progressively prevalent risks to network security compounded by remote working
and social media, businesses are seeking ways to effectively secure digital identities but
at lower costs. While current tokenless solutions go someway to meeting this requirement
they can be a costly option. This new java-based offering on CRYPTO-MAS appropriately
secures network access while helping companies to reduce the overall cost of
authentication. It can be seamlessly added to any users’ Java based mobile phone. The
new release also includes a feature that delivers up to five One-Time Passwords (OTP) per
SMS message – ensuring that even in areas of poor mobile phone coverage an OTP is
always available to protect access.

 
A report by Goode Intelligence forecast that mobile phone-based authentication
products and services will generate $153 million in 2010 and that the market will grow to
almost $760 million in revenue by 2014. “Phone-based authentication is the fastest
growing segment of the market and this release extends CRYPTOCard’s leadership in
each of the three key areas – we have the widest SMS functionality; the only phone
based token on a SaaS authentication service and the widest back-end functionality for
service providers which allows us to be the lowest priced option on the market,”
commented Neil Hollister, CEO, CRYPTOCard. “CRYPTOCard is committed to leading the
tokenless revolution in strong authentication and these features demonstrate that
leadership”

 
The addition of an SMS gateway selection feature enhances the current SMS capability of
CRYPTO-MAS by allowing service providers and large enterprise customers to leverage
their own SMS message centres while still benefitting from reduced costs and increased
manageability and of course the distinct advantages of securing their network using
CRYPTO-MAS. The feature allows CRYPTO-MAS to be easily integrated into a service
provide infrastructure – further distancing it from other products available.

 
CRYPTO-MAS is the first Password-as-a-Service offering on the market and brings the
benefits of cloud-based services to the authentication space CRYPTO-MAS delivers a low
cost, ultra reliable platform that benefits from the widest and most innovative range of
tokens available on any cloud based authentication service. The benefits of CRYPTO-MAS
includes no upfront cost, no ongoing IT & resource overheads and an enterprise 99.999%
service level, all delivered in a utility-based pricing model.

 
CRYPTOCard was named Managed Service Provider of the Year by Network Computing
in both 2010 and 2009 for CRYPTO-MAS. The solution was also named the Most Innovative
Product 2009 in the Techworld Awards.

 
About CRYPTOCard
CRYPTOCard, the authentication authority, helps organizations mitigate the risk of identity
theft by using appropriate authentication to secure digital identities. Headquartered in
Canada and the UK, CRYPTOCard’s products are used by thousands of companies in
more than 70 countries globally.

CRYPTOCard’s award-winning authentication platform benefits its users by delivering an
exceptionally low cost of ownership. The platform, available as a cloud based service or
server based application, offers unrivalled automated provisioning to reduce
management time by up to 90%, and an innovative and wide ranging mix of hardware,
software, SMS, phone or grid based tokens to ensure that any business’s authentication
framework strategy is fully covered.

 
Established in 1989 and with a proud heritage of technology and product leadership,
CRYPTOCard’s flagship product, CRYPTO- MAS, is the world’s first enterprise cloud-based
authentication platform, offering users the greatest management functionality and the
widest and most innovative range of tokens available on any cloud based authentication
service.

SEATTLE – April 26, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced the launch of a new competitive trade-in program, “Red Instead” – a first of its kind program that offers free WatchGuard XTM multifunction firewalls and WatchGuard XCS messaging security appliances to businesses that trade in competitive unified threat management (UTM) firewalls or spam/content security appliances.

“Malware, viruses and hackers are constantly changing and becoming more sophisticated, stealthy and destructive,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at [...]]]> WatchGuard Builds on Record Momentum; Launches “Red Instead” Competitive Trade-in Promotion for XTM Firewalls and XCS Messaging Security Appliances

SEATTLE – April 26, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced the launch of a new competitive trade-in program, “Red Instead” – a first of its kind program that offers free WatchGuard XTM multifunction firewalls and WatchGuard XCS messaging security appliances to businesses that trade in competitive unified threat management (UTM) firewalls or spam/content security appliances.

“Malware, viruses and hackers are constantly changing and becoming more sophisticated, stealthy and destructive,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “However, at risk are many businesses that rely on old technology to thwart these next generation attacks. The WatchGuard ‘Red Instead’ program ameliorates this problem by giving businesses an opportunity to get the best network, application and data protection for free.”

For a limited time only, customers who trade in a competitive security appliance and sign a three-year WatchGuard XTM or XCS software bundle suite will be able to get a WatchGuard XTM 2, 5 or 8 Series next generation firewall, or WatchGuard XCS 170, 370, 570, 970 or 1170 Series messaging security appliance for free.

World renowned for their bright-red appearance, WatchGuard XTM Series represents the latest in multi-layered, “defense-in-depth” next generation firewall capabilities. Ideal for small businesses up to enterprise organizations, WatchGuard XTM solutions provide unparalleled network, application and data protection, superior management features and capabilities, and unlike competitive UTM appliances, the industry’s best price/performance value.

Recently released, the WatchGuard XTM 2 Series delivers best in class security performance to small businesses and remote sites that need strong protection without hefty price tags. Enterprise-grade security includes full HTTPS content inspection and VoIP support and flexible management tools allow administrators to work from an intuitive console, scriptable CLI, and web UI.

Likewise, the WatchGuard XTM 5 Series combines firewall/ VPN with unmatched throughput and a suite of flexible management tools to give mid-size businesses a sure-fire way to keep their networks safe. These newest additions to the XTM family sport the industry’s highest full UTM performance. Furthermore seven Ethernet interfaces – six GigE and one FE – provide high-speed LAN backbone infrastructure and gigabit WAN connectivity. IT administrators can manage security from a centralized console, scriptable CLI, and web UI. Real-time monitoring and rich reporting are included at no extra cost.

Ideal for main offices/headquarters with up to 5,000 users, the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series includes full HTTPS inspection, optional URL filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus and intrusion prevention. Flexible, centralized management tools provide administration access from one intuitive console or a scriptable CLI, and include real-time monitoring and rich reporting. High availability (active/active), multi-WAN, server load balancing, and VLAN can be configured to ensure maximum uptime.

WatchGuard XCS appliances deliver the industry’s most effective spam and malware security coupled with data loss prevention. Easy-to-use, WatchGuard XCS solutions offer unmatched protection against e-mail and web-based threats, including spam, viruses, malware, blended threats, spyware and more. Additionally, WatchGuard XCS appliance provide advanced data loss prevention (DLP), encryption and management features that make it ideal for small businesses up to the most demanding enterprise network environments.

More information about “Red Instead” competitive trade-in program is available at www.WatchGuard.com.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

SEATTLE – April 14, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced the launch of WatchGuard Quarantine Management Server (QMS). This bolsters the WatchGuard family of extensible content security (XCS) offerings to give businesses additional protection against spam, phishing and malware-laden messages.

Ideal for MSSPs, mid-size and enterprise organizations, WatchGuard QMS is an automated, intelligent and easy-to-use e-mail quarantine solution that allows businesses to direct unwanted e-mail or exceptionally large messages to a local quarantine server for further processing. By providing a highly secure holding area for e-mail, [...]]]> New Product Enhances E-mail and Content Security Platform from WatchGuard

SEATTLE – April 14, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced the launch of WatchGuard Quarantine Management Server (QMS). This bolsters the WatchGuard family of extensible content security (XCS) offerings to give businesses additional protection against spam, phishing and malware-laden messages.

Ideal for MSSPs, mid-size and enterprise organizations, WatchGuard QMS is an automated, intelligent and easy-to-use e-mail quarantine solution that allows businesses to direct unwanted e-mail or exceptionally large messages to a local quarantine server for further processing. By providing a highly secure holding area for e-mail, the WatchGuard QMS gives administrators flexible control and unmatched threat protection.

“Because e-mail is a critical business operation, it also tends to be the first entry point for viruses, hackers and malware,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “Because of this, WatchGuard is now offering a quarantine management server to complement our award-winning XCS messaging and content security appliances. Having both WatchGuard QMS and XCS solutions in place, businesses gain unparalleled control over their messages and unbeatable protection against malicious e-mails.”

With WatchGuard QMS, organizations can reduce the load and storage requirements placed on existing e-mail security gateways, which results in higher throughput for e-mail processing, reduced administration costs and streamlined reporting. WatchGuard QMS can store and manage spam messages for up to 180,000 users, as well as store quarantined messages for 30 days or more. This helps to ensure legitimate individual messages are never lost while keeping storage, processing and bandwidth requirements on e-mail security gateways, internal mail systems and networks to a minimum.

Pricing and Availability
WatchGuard QMS is available in two models, the WatchGuard QMS 500 and WatchGuard QMS 1000. The WatchGuard QMS 500 supports up to 90,000 users; the QMS 1000 supports up to 180,000 users. Both are available now from WatchGuard resellers.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. 

WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

SEATTLE – April 06, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced winning Everything Channel’s 2010 Partner Program Guide and Five-Star rating in the midsize category. The 16th annual Partner Program guide recognizes North America’s top information technology (IT) vendors for their partner programs for reseller partners, which includes IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants. The Five-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give Solution Providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

“WatchGuard is dedicated to delivering excellent products, services [...]]]> WatchGuard Channel Program Recognized as Exceptional by Leading Channel Authority

SEATTLE – April 06, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced winning Everything Channel’s 2010 Partner Program Guide and Five-Star rating in the midsize category. The 16th annual Partner Program guide recognizes North America’s top information technology (IT) vendors for their partner programs for reseller partners, which includes IT integrators, technology solution providers and consultants. The Five-Star rating recognizes an elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give Solution Providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

“WatchGuard is dedicated to delivering excellent products, services and support. The 5-Star Partner Rating from Everything Channel validates our commitment to partners by delivering the best in class channel programs,” said Mark Romano, Director of Global Channel and Field Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “We look forward to maintaining our relationships in the channel while continuing to focus upon delivering exceptional products and support in 2010.”

Research for the 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and the Five-Star Partner Program rating was conducted by Everything Channel’s research department. Everything Channel analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors’ responses to in-depth questions about their partner programs in the five elements of sales support, partner profitability, partner ecosystem development/management, partner communication/marketing, and demand generation.

To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size (Enterprise, Midsize, Small and Emerging). Questions from each section were scored individually and weighted appropriately. The 5-Star Partner Program rating recognizes the elite subset of Partner Program Guide vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs. The 5-Star rating is bestowed on programs whose overall rating is among the elite based on company size.

“We are pleased to deliver to the Channel an exclusive list of the leading vendor channel programs with details about key technologies, program opportunities, and information on the hottest new program offerings,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “The quality of a technology vendor’s partner program determines how profitable its partners will be. For their commitment to their business partners and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate this year’s Partner Program Guide and five-star rating winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel.”

The PPG list and those companies recognized as five-star appeared in the March 29th issue of CRN magazine and online at www.Channelweb.com.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com):
Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its “Complete Technology Channel Solution,” Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

SEATTLE – March 22, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that the WatchGuard XCS 770 received top honors from SC Magazine, the leading authority on IT security. The WatchGuard XCS 770 received 5-stars in all the review categories: Features, Performance, Ease of use, Documentation, Support, Value for Money, and Overall Rating. Additionally, SC Magazine gave the WatchGuard XCS 770 their prized SC Magazine “Recommended” award in this group test of e-mail security solutions.

“As a leader of multifunction firewalls and VPN solutions, WatchGuard is pleased to [...]]]> WatchGuard XCS 770 Gets 5-Star Review and Coveted “Recommended” Award

SEATTLE – March 22, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that the WatchGuard XCS 770 received top honors from SC Magazine, the leading authority on IT security. The WatchGuard XCS 770 received 5-stars in all the review categories: Features, Performance, Ease of use, Documentation, Support, Value for Money, and Overall Rating. Additionally, SC Magazine gave the WatchGuard XCS 770 their prized SC Magazine “Recommended” award in this group test of e-mail security solutions.

“As a leader of multifunction firewalls and VPN solutions, WatchGuard is pleased to receive SC Magazine’s Recommendation for our new extensible content security gateway, the XCS 770,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “As evidence of this award, the XCS 770 is the superior choice for mid-market and enterprise organizations who want the best in e-mail and content security protection.”

The verdict on the WatchGuard XCS 770 from SC Magazine is, “A solid set of features for enterprise environments looking to converge security and content management into one solution. We grant this product our Recommended designation.”

WatchGuard XCS 770 – Failsafe Enterprise Messaging Security
Designed and optimized for networks with 4,000 users, the WatchGuard XCS 770 offers unparalleled performance, efficacy and reliability. Leveraging an advanced anti-spam engine that examines sender information and content, including images, attachments and embedded URLs, the XCS 770 conducts contextual analysis of message traffic for a categorized and weighted score, which results in highly intelligent and accurate protection.

For additional control, administrators will appreciate the built in quarantine for spam and suspect e-mails, which directs unwanted messages to a local quarantine server, allowing end users to manage their quarantined messages, safe lists and block lists from an easy to use web-based interface.

Addressing the ever-growing threat of blended threats and malware, the WatchGuard XCS 770 provides zero-hour threat outbreak response as well as advanced content filtering and malware protection, which scans inbound as well as outbound e-mails for malicious content.

Given that mid-tier and enterprise organizations face a litany of regulatory and compliance requirements, the WatchGuard XCS 770 includes sophisticated data loss prevention features, such as transparent remediation to automatically block, quarantine, re-route, blind copy, encrypt or allow messages based on configurable policies, as well as pre-defined compliance dictionaries for GLB, HIPAA, PCI DSS and others to make administration as easy as possible.

Seamless e-mail encryption secures confidential messages to any recipient without requiring a dedicated server, thus avoiding the costs associated with most encryption solutions. Furthermore, e-profiling and data discovery and classification allows administrators to classify types of sensitive data, and with centralized data loss policy management, administrators can apply single policies across multiple protocols to protect data-in-motion from loss and policy violations.

For additional redundancy, scalability and maximum uptime, the WatchGuard XCS 770 comes with dynamic on-demand clustering and queue replication, which provides easy replication of configuration settings and messaging queues across multiple systems in minutes, as well as message-level redundancy, which ensures no communications is ever lost and that e-mail security is always up and running.

Like all other WatchGuard XCS appliances, the XCS 770 can take advantage of WatchGuard’s innovative in-the-cloud security technology, ReputationAuthority. WatchGuard ReputationAuthority eliminates up to 98.3 percent of spam e-mail before it ever gets to the network by using DNS blacklists, IP volume, behavior analysis and content inspection. Given that spam e-mail is a major carrier of viruses, phishing and blended threats, having ReputationAuthority pre-screen and eliminate this unwanted traffic makes networks, applications and data better protected as part of WatchGuard’s defense-in-depth architecture.

Enterprises can leverage the WatchGuard XCS 770 to also provide defense-in-depth web content protection. To reduce exposure to web-based threats, administrators can invoke acceptable use and application controls to centrally manage and restrict Internet and application usage with granular policies for users and groups. URL filtering and categorization dynamically analyzes and blocks access to websites based on content policies. With dynamic inspection, real-time content examination and analysis occurs on every web page that enters the network, and with web traffic enhancements, organizations can reduce bandwidth consumption, server loads and web traffic latency.

The SC Magazine Review of the WatchGuard XCS 770 is available at: http://www.scmagazineus.com/watchguard-technologies-xcs-770/review/3115/

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

WatchGuard is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are property of their respective owners.

Evaluation of EMC’s Security Division and the RSA® Identity Protection and Verification Suite Based on “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute”

Bedford, MA —  RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced that it is positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a “Leader” in its newest “Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection” report1 by Avivah Litan. According to Gartner, this positioning is based upon completeness of vision and ability to execute. RSA addresses the web fraud detection market with the RSA® Identity Protection and Verification Suite.

“We believe that our placement in the Web Fraud Detection Leaders Quadrant [...]]]> Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Evaluation of EMC’s Security Division and the RSA® Identity Protection and Verification Suite Based on “Completeness of Vision” and “Ability to Execute”

Bedford, MA —  RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced that it is positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a “Leader” in its newest “Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection” report1 by Avivah Litan. According to Gartner, this positioning is based upon completeness of vision and ability to execute. RSA addresses the web fraud detection market with the RSA® Identity Protection and Verification Suite.

“We believe that our placement in the Web Fraud Detection Leaders Quadrant is a reflection of RSA’s continued success in defending against advancements in online fraud and identity impersonation, as well as our ability to deliver tangible value to customers by reducing their fraud-related losses,” said Christopher Young, Senior Vice President, Technology at RSA. “RSA’s anti-fraud experts are delivering innovative, layered solutions worldwide that currently secure more than 250 million people’s identities, credentials, and assets.”

About the RSA Identity Protection and Verification Suite
The RSA® Identity Protection and Verification Suite is one of the most complete and innovative Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolios of strong authentication and anti-fraud technologies. Engineered to protect organizations and their online users against the latest external threats, it includes:

RSA® Adaptive Authentication, a risk-based authentication and fraud detection platform is used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide and authenticates more than 250 million users through risk indicators powered by the RSA® Risk Engine, such as device identification, geo-location, behavioral profiling, and fraud data from the RSA eFraudNetwork^SM community.

RSA FraudAction^SM, a 24×7 service that helps protect more than 320 organizations against phishing, Trojan, and other online attacks. Powered by the RSA Anti-Fraud Command Center (AFCC), its team of fraud analysts has shut down more than 280,000 illegal websites in 140 countries to date.

RSA® Identity Verification, a knowledge-based authentication system that is engineered to assure and confirm user identities in real-time by presenting a series of top-of-mind questions utilizing relevant facts obtained from dozens of public and commercial record databases.
 

RSA® Transaction Monitoring, an online fraud detection and management system that is designed to detect, flag, and investigate high-risk activities. The RSA Risk Engine evaluates each online activity in real-time and generates a unique risk score that reduces fraud.
 

RSA® Adaptive Authentication for eCommerce, a secure framework for cardholder protection and fraud management that authenticated hundreds of millions of transactions last year via a range of authentication and card security products, including Verified by Visa®, MasterCard SecureCode™ and JCB J/Secure™.

The RSA eFraudNetwork service, a cross-institution, cross-platform, online fraud network community, dedicated to sharing and disseminating information on fraudulent activity.
 

About the Gartner Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant
The Gartner Web Fraud Detection Magic Quadrant is copyrighted January 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
1Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Web Fraud Detection” by Avivah Litan, January 26, 2010

About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world’s leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA’s information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated.

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CellWise alleviates cell backhaul congestion and increases user experience by applying policy control on a per cell basis

Boston, MA – March 16, 2010 – Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leader in IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Dynamic Actionable Recognition Technology (DART), announced today the launch of Allot CellWise, an innovative network service that is designed to enable mobile broadband operators to manage traffic down to the individual cell and alleviate backhaul congestion in real time by providing intelligence about their network at the cell level.  CellWise is intended to manage costs and reduce customer churn [...]]]> 16.03.2010

CellWise alleviates cell backhaul congestion and increases user experience by applying policy control on a per cell basis

Boston, MA – March 16, 2010 – Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a leader in IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Dynamic Actionable Recognition Technology (DART), announced today the launch of Allot CellWise, an innovative network service that is designed to enable mobile broadband operators to manage traffic down to the individual cell and alleviate backhaul congestion in real time by providing intelligence about their network at the cell level.  CellWise is intended to manage costs and reduce customer churn by providing the operator with precise network knowledge and control, and contribute to the overall user experience by ensuring fair use per cell.  CellWise is offered as an integrated service with Allot’s intelligent policy control and charging solution included in the Allot Service Gateway platform.

“Cell congestion has traditionally been solved through heavy operator investment in the backhaul,” explains Andrei Elefant, Allot Communication’s Vice President of Product Management and Marketing.  “Intelligent cell traffic management from a centralized location is both a cost effective and time efficient solution that enables operators to truly alleviate congestion on a point by point basis.”

CellWise, which works in conjunction with Allot’s Subscriber and Application awareness is part of Allot’s multi-layered approach to intelligent policy control and traffic management which together enable the operator to decide exactly how the network’s resources will be allocated.  CellWise continuously maps subscribers to cells in real time.  Using dynamic policy enforcement rules, the operator can define rules that will be enforced when congestion occurs on a particular cell. 

Allot Service Gateway Sigma (SG-Sigma) has 60Gbps of throughput and is the only DPI-based Service Gateway platform designed to meet current and future service provider requirements.  It facilitates the fast and easy introduction of new value-added network and subscriber services, including TierManager, Quota Manager, NetPolicy Provisioner MediaSwift, WebSafe and ServiceProtector – services designed to reduce network TCO, increase ARPU and enhance the user experience.

Allot CellWise is currently commercially available.

About Allot Communications
Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT) is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization solutions for fixed and mobile broadband operators and large enterprises. Allot’s rich portfolio of solutions leverages dynamic actionable recognition technology (DART) to transform broadband pipes into smart networks that can rapidly and efficiently deploy value added Internet services. Allot’s scalable, carrier-grade solutions provide the visibility, topology awareness, security, application control and subscriber management that are vital to managing Internet service delivery, enhancing user experience, containing operating costs, and maximizing revenue in broadband networks.

SEATTLE – March 10, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that the WatchGuard SSL 100 won “Hardware Product of the Year” from Network Computing, a leading IT trade publication in the UK.

“WatchGuard provides businesses with a comprehensive array of security solutions, including multifunction firewall appliances, messaging and content filtering solutions, and state of the art SSL VPN offerings that protect networks, applications and data,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “The WatchGuard SSL 100 provides unmatched security, performance and flexibility for mobile [...]]]> WatchGuard SSL 100 Delivers Enterprise Security at SMB Prices

SEATTLE – March 10, 2010. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that the WatchGuard SSL 100 won “Hardware Product of the Year” from Network Computing, a leading IT trade publication in the UK.

“WatchGuard provides businesses with a comprehensive array of security solutions, including multifunction firewall appliances, messaging and content filtering solutions, and state of the art SSL VPN offerings that protect networks, applications and data,” said Eric Aarrestad, Vice President of Marketing at WatchGuard Technologies. “The WatchGuard SSL 100 provides unmatched security, performance and flexibility for mobile workers, remote office employees and others who need rock-solid reliability and highly secure VPN connectivity.”

Ideal for small to medium sized businesses, the WatchGuard SSL 100 supports up to 100 simultaneous authenticated users, each with multiple connections. Unlike other SSL VPN offerings that require additional add-ons or expensive service contracts, the WatchGuard SSL 100 provides a complete and comprehensive array of features that are designed to provide maximum ease of use, flexibility and high security for less than $2,000.

WatchGuard – Making Remote Access Easy
Nimble by design, the WatchGuard SSL 100 comes ready to go out of the box as one, easy to install appliance. Because of its comprehensive authentication technology, the WatchGuard SSL 100 eliminates the burden of integrating the appliance with other third-party authentication systems, such as LDAP, Active Directory, or RADIUS.

With comprehensive logging and reporting capabilities, the WatchGuard SSL 100 provides a rich history of remote user information that gives businesses insight to better manage and adjust remote resources, applications and infrastructure needs.

WatchGuard – Extending Business Flexibility
For organizations that want to deliver applications or tools to remote users, the WatchGuard SSL 100 offers delivery of non-native desktop and server applications such as SSH (Secure Shell) and RDP (Remote Desktop). This allows remote workers to securely access and work with applications as if they were in the office from any location worldwide.

To help road warriors, WatchGuard provides Desktop Sharing and Remote Assist. This feature allows administrators or business channel partners to initiate connections to remote devices, such as laptops, from their helpdesk. They can then take control of and diagnose remote user issues quickly and easily, thus saving time and helping to keep road warriors productive in the field.

WatchGuard – Providing Security for Mobile Workers
Leveraging WatchGuard’s security heritage and technology portfolio, the WatchGuard SSL 100 provides unmatched security features for remote workers. With its new deep device examination, end-point integrity checking functionality, businesses can easily create and enforce security policies to ensure connecting devices have firewall protection and up to date anti-virus definitions so that only healthy and policy compliant devices are on the network.

Furthermore, the WatchGuard SSL 100 provides an auto-loading access client. This is a web-based access client that automatically loads after successful authentication. This eliminates the need to pre-install a client application on remote users’ systems, while simplifying secure access to network resources.

Additional security can be utilized with onboard two-factor authentication. The WatchGuard SSL 100 can generate SMS-based tokens and one-time password (OTP) to a user’s mobile device, such as a corporate cell phone, smart phone or wireless PDA. This provides fast and secure two-factor authentication without having to use other third-party authentication solutions. However, for businesses that currently use external authentication methods, the SSL 100 supports over a dozen different authentication types right out of the box.

The WatchGuard SSL 100 also provides enhanced access client support. With current client support for Microsoft Windows 32-bit and 64-bit clients, the SSL 100 supports Microsoft Vista and Windows 7 clients.

About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.