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BorderWare MXtreme: The Only Email Firewall Appliance Recognized Among SC Magazine's Best of 2003.


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DALLAS & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 18, 2003

BorderWare Technologies Inc., The Security Appliances Company(TM), today announced that the MXtreme(TM) Mail FireWall appliance A device that provides firewall protection for a network. It includes all the necessary hardware and software in a self-contained package that plugs in between the two networks being isolated. Most firewall appliances are solid state and include a stripped down operating system.  was recognized by the editors of SC Magazine as being among the Best of 2003, and that it was the only product in its class to garner the acknowledgment.

Each year, SC Magazine reviews hundreds of computer security hardware and software products. MXtreme is cited in the December issue of SC Magazine's feature story "The Best of 2003", which is a summary compilation of products that have received the highest marks in review over the past year.

"If your main concern is email, this is the product you should consider," wrote Craig Hinton For the English footballer, see .

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 in his five-star review of MXtreme version 2.0.2 in the May issue. The product has since evolved to version 3.0, which integrates the market-leading Brightmail(R) anti-spam engine for maintenance-free enterprise-grade spam protection, and the award-winning Kaspersky(R) anti-virus technology, included as an unlimited license.

The full review is available at http://www.borderware.com/pdfs/sc_may2003.pdf

About MXtreme

MXtreme Mail Firewall is an "application-specific" security appliance that delivers the most comprehensive solution for protecting email systems from all threats. MXtreme prevents any number of threats to email systems from spam, viruses, Trojans and worms, to malformed mal·formed
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 messages and denial-of-service attacks, while enabling overall email server See mail server.  functionality with sophisticated routing and delivery. MXtreme also provides secure remote access for Web Mail, and secure authenticated session proxies for Outlook Web Access (OWA OWA Outlook Web Access
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At the heart of MXtreme is S-Core(TM), a hardened operating system integral to the Common Criteria EAL EAL English as an Additional Language
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4+ (with EAL5 vulnerability analysis) certification achieved by the BorderWare Firewall Server. The Common Criteria is an international security standard for products recognized by 16 countries. CC EAL4+ is the highest rating achieved by commercial products, a rating recommended by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. MXtreme comes in three models, for businesses with small, medium and heavy email traffic.

About SC Magazine

SC Magazine deals with all the critical issues relating to information security and is widely recognized as the global leader in delivering timely and accurate information on the threats to information security and the solutions available to remedy them across a complete media platform - Print, Online, and Events.

About BorderWare

BorderWare Technologies Inc. is The Security Appliances Company. The company's comprehensive network firewall+VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks.  and "application-specific" appliances for email, DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the , and document collaboration, protect mission-critical network resources in sensitive environments and are deployed at various military, intelligence, defense and national security agencies, and corporations worldwide. BorderWare has affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure and security including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, RSA Security, Brightmail, Kaspersky Labs, St. Bernard Software St. Bernard Software is an American content filtering company. It produces several hardware appliances for this purpose including the ePrism, and iPrism line. In addition also makes Liveprism, a SaS filtering solution. External Links
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, BlueCat Networks, Network Engines and SSH Communications Security SSH Communications Security is a Finnish company that is based in Helsinki and was founded by Tatu Ylönen in 1995. It is known as the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol and it currently has about 80 employees. .

Founded in 1994, BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dallas, San Jose, and Washington DC. For more information visit www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900.

(C) 2003 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare, The Security Appliances Company, MXtreme and S-Core are trademarks of BorderWare Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.
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