BorderWare Technologies Inc.: MXtreme Mail Firewall Delivers Easy, Comprehensive Security for IBM Lotus Domino Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Lotusphere 2004 ORLANDO, Fla. & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 For email and messaging administrators attending Lotusphere 2004 in search of a solution that secures Lotus Domino from the rising tide Noun 1. rising tide - the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare flood tide, flood of spam, viruses and other threats, BorderWare Technologies Inc., The Security Appliances Company(TM), has an answer. Look at the MXtreme(TM) Mail Firewall, which has proven itself an easy, comprehensive solution for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Lotus(R) Domino(TM). "The first thing that grabbed my attention about MXtreme was its ease of installation. It only took a few minutes to configure it via a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and we were off and running," says Scott L. Thomas, President, Thomas Consulting Inc. (www.thomas-consulting.com), and DominoWire Security Tips Technical Editor for e-promag.com. Thomas was recently involved in installing MXtreme for a company with 32,000 Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. clients. Thomas worked with the company to do extensive research and testing of all of the leading email security appliances over several months before the final decision was made to select MXtreme. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Thomas, "MXtreme's comprehensive anti-spam and anti-virus protection, security certifications, straightforward Web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. administration and detailed reports that can be customized and automated, were key contributing factors in the decision process. The product easily handled the email load of the company, which is in excess of one million messages per week." With respect to BorderWare's support Thomas adds: "Technical support was good and prompt when we used them." MXtreme for Domino Users In a Domino environment, MXtreme Mail Firewall installs at the network edge, between the Internet and Domino messaging servers, delivering the most comprehensive perimeter security for the email system. MXtreme prevents any number of threats to Domino from spam, viruses, Trojans and worms, to malformed mal·formed adj. Abnormally or faultily formed. messages and denial-of-service attacks, while enabling sophisticated routing and message delivery. MXtreme ensures that email remains secure, reliable and highly available. MXtreme also provides remote users with a secure authenticated proxy sessions for Lotus iNotes(TM), so users can safely access their email from any Web browser. MXtreme Mail Firewall appliances come in three models, for businesses with small, medium and heavy email traffic, and are also available through an international channel of 500 resellers. 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, 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, 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) 2004 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare, The Security Appliances Company, and MXtreme 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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