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BorderWare's MXtreme'TM' Mail Firewall Named a 'Finalist' for Annual Award from SC Magazine.


DALLAS & TORONTO -- Latest Accolade Caps Year of Outstanding Recognition for MXtreme and BorderWare

BorderWare Technologies, the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions, today announced that the MXtreme Mail Firewall has been selected as a Reader Trust Award "Finalist" in the category of Best Email Security Solution by SC Magazine for the SC Global Awards 2005. The winners will be announced at the SC Global Awards dinner and presentation during the RSA Conference The RSA Conference is a Cryptography-related conference held annually in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The RSA Conference started in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security.
 on February 16, 2005 at the Moscone Center The Moscone Center is San Francisco, California's largest convention and exhibition complex. The complex consists of two main underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, Moscone North and Moscone South, as well the three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street.  in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden .

The "Finalist" status from SC Magazine caps off a year of extraordinary accolades and positive reviews of BorderWare's MXtreme. In 2004:

- MXtreme emerged as the "clear favorite" among anti-spam appliances Anti-spam appliances are hardware devices integrated with on-board software that implement anti-spam techniques (e-mail) and/or anti-spam for instant messaging (also called "spim") and are deployed at the gateway or in front of the mail server.  in a Network World "Clear Choice Test" of 36 offerings.

- BorderWare achieved leadership in the META Group's "E-Mail Hygiene Vendor Comparison", where MXtreme finished with the highest total score for its overall "Product Functionality", "Platform Specifics" and "Geographic Reach". The study, which is the most comprehensive research of the e-mail hygiene market to date, looked at BorderWare and eleven other vendors.

- MXtreme was also honored with a Network Computing Storing and/or running applications in servers in a network. See cloud computing and network computer.  2004 Well-Connected Finalist Award in spam prevention in a Real-World review of 35 products, of which only 10 met the criteria for coverage.

- MXtreme was also rated the most secure, best price-performer in a Federal Computer Week review, bettering its closest competitors because of the product's Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian  EAL EAL English as an Additional Language
EAL Evaluation Assurance Level
EAL Eastern Airlines
EAL Emergency Action Level
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EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 
4+ security certification A certification issued by competent authority to indicate that a person has been investigated and is eligible for access to classified matter to the extent stated in the certification. , sophisticated anti-spam engines and advanced management and failover capabilities.

- Information Security praised MXtreme for its robust feature set, rich reporting capabilities, and ease-of-use, stating the product is "an effective remedy" that "boasts a feature set that's as comprehensive as it is diverse."

- An eWEEK review lauded MXtreme as "a flexible e-mail infrastructure appliance that combines solid security features with easy manageability."

"Without doubt, this has been one of the most phenomenal years in BorderWare's history," said John Alsop John Alsop (1724 – November 22, 1794) was an American merchant and politician from New York City during the American Revolution. He was a delegate for New York to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , BorderWare. "Industry analysts, media and customers continue to recognize MXtreme as the market-leading appliance for email security. The best is yet to come in 2005 as we expand our products and vision to deliver comprehensive messaging security that encompasses email and SIP."

About BorderWare

Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions for enterprises and government. The company's flagship MXtreme Mail Firewall is the market-leading appliance for securing an organization's e-mail infrastructure. Similarly, BorderWare's SIPassure(TM) SIP Firewall delivers the benefits of Internet telephony by managing and protecting the flow of VoIP-specific SIP communications for enterprises and carriers. BorderWare has more than 6000 customers with systems deployed at numerous government agencies, corporations, and carriers worldwide. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including Cisco Systems, F5 Networks, Sun Microsystems, RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900.

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