BorderWare Firewall Server Takes the Lead by Gaining the First Common Criteria EAL4 Certification.Business &Technology Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2000 BorderWare Technologies Inc. (BTI BTI Beverage Testing Institute BTI Boyce Thompson Institute BTI British American Tobacco (stock symbol) BTI Boston Theological Institute Bti Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis BTI BioTechnology Institute BTI Binding Tariff Information ), a leading network security vendor, today announced that its BorderWare Firewall Server was awarded 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 Certification at EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4 level by the United Kingdom certification body (CESG CESG Canada Education Savings Grant CESG Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics CESG Communications Electronic Security Group (UK) CESG Canadian Econometric Study Group CESG communications equipment support group ). This award makes the BorderWare Firewall Server the first firewall security product, world-wide, to reach this high level of formal certification. The award of EAL4 certification adds formal recognition to the BorderWare Firewall Server's reputation as an industry-leading product combining ease of use with the highest level of security. &uot;BorderWare Technologies has always believed that firewalls should be easy to use, while also providing maximum security,&uot; said Peter Cox, European Vice President, BorderWare Technologies Inc. &uot;The award of the first Common Criteria EAL4 Certification to the BorderWare Firewall Server endorses our design approach and positions the BorderWare Firewall Server as a leader in the rapidly expanding Internet firewall A firewall that is used to shield users from the Internet. See firewall. industry.&uot; The Common Criteria Certification is a set of internationally recognized criteria for evaluating the security of IT products. Participating countries include Canada, the United States, Australia, France, Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Levels (EAL) run from level one (lowest) to level seven (highest). EAL4 provides a high level of assurance requiring an in-depth analysis of product design and development methodology backed up by extensive testing. Common Criteria Certification testing is targeted specifically at ensuring that all security related features of a product are correctly implemented and are appropriate to the product's functional specification. Testing is backed by a vulnerability analysis and, in the case of the BorderWare Firewall Server, extensive penetration testing. This adds up to an assurance that the evaluated product is correctly designed and implemented and has been thoroughly tested. At the heart of the BorderWare Firewall Server is, BTI's S-CORE, an embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. designed to provide a secure foundation for the Company's range of Internet security products. The Firewall Server also includes a complete set of application servers simplifying the deployment of a secure Internet connection and lowering the cost of ownership. The Firewall Server is managed from a remote Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to . All of these components plus the rich set of pre-defined application proxies (provided to ensure secure and transparent connections from a protected network to the Internet) were included in the evaluation and subsequent certification of the BorderWare Firewall Server. This contrasts with the lower-level certifications achieved by other Firewall products which have not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. such a comprehensive set of features. The Certification of the BorderWare Firewall Server was completed on time thanks to the structured and collaborative approach of the evaluator (Syntegra) and to the integrated design of the Firewall. Syntegra's CLEF Technical Controller Julian Straw commented that BorderWare's integrated operating system aided the evaluation by removing many of the operating system vulnerabilities that would be found in Firewall products that rely on standard operating systems. The award of the Common Criteria EAL4 certification positions the BorderWare Firewall Server ahead of much of the competition. Other Firewall products have achieved Common Criteria certifications, but at a lower level. Common Criteria certified products include Check Point's (Nasdaq: CHKP CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) Firewall-1 which is certified at EAL2 and Cisco's (Nasdaq: CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ) PIX also certified at EAL2. The BorderWare Firewall Server runs on standard Intel (Nasdaq: INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ) hardware. Further information on Common Criteria can be found at the following Web sites: -- http://csrc.nist.gov/cc/ -- http://www.radium radium (rā`dēəm) [Lat. radius=ray], radioactive metallic chemical element; symbol Ra; at. no. 88; at. wt. 226.0254; m.p. 700°C;; b.p. 1,140°C;; sp. gr. about 6.0; valence +2. Radium is a lustrous white radioactive metal. .ncsc.mil/tpep/library/ccitse/index.html *T About BorderWare Technologies Inc. BorderWare Technologies Inc. is a private company, founded in 1998. BorderWare's mission is to develop and market easy-to-use and highly secure Internet software products based on its field proven S-CORE technology. The company's flagship product is the BorderWare Firewall Server(TM), an integrated firewall and Internet services gateway. For more information, access www.borderware.com. |
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