BorderWare Technologies Inc.: MXtreme Now Industry's First Mail Firewall To Deliver Zero Downtime, Zero Latency, Zero Message Loss.News Editors/Business Editors DALLAS & TORONTO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2004 BorderWare Introduces MXtreme HALO(TM), FailSafe Clustering Architecture for High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Although enterprises have deployed perimeter point solutions to deal with the incessant onslaught of spam and virus attacks, these systems are inadequate in assuring timely message delivery or protection against the possible of loss of email due to overloading or outright system failure. BorderWare Technologies Inc., The Security Appliances Company(TM), today announced HALO(TM) (High Availability Load Optimization), a failsafe clustering architecture for high availability for the MXtreme 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. . MXtreme's HALO takes a significant step forward by applying data center operational disciplines to email, making it the first email security product capable of delivering zero downtime, zero latency (1) Having no delay between the time a request is initiated and the response is given. See latency. (2) (Zero Latency) Coined by the GartnerGroup, it is the immediate exchange of information across geographical, technical and organizational boundaries so that all and zero message loss. "As enterprises continue to increase their dependence on email as the most mission-critical communications platform, IT groups must ensure that their messaging infrastructure remains secure, reliable and always available," said Matt Cain Matthew Thomas Cain (born October 1 1984 in Dothan, Alabama) is a starting pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. He is ft in ( m) tall and weighs lb ( kg). , Sr. Vice President, META Group. "In nearly all cases, perimeter email gateways are single systems that offer minimal fault-tolerance." Say "HALO" to a New Level of Email Reliability MXtreme HALO is a carrier-grade failsafe clustering architecture for high availability that enables two or more MXtreme systems to act as a single logical unit for processing email messages. It supports high availability through its unique security, cluster management, load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and optimization, and patent-pending "stateful failover" capabilities, ensuring that mail messages are never lost due to security vulnerabilities or individual system failures. Systems can also be added or removed from clusters without interruption to the overall service. - Security - MXtreme is the most secure email firewall available, and is currently being certified under the 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 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 (Evaluation Assurance Level The Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL1 through EAL7) of an IT product or system is a numerical grade assigned following the completion of a Common Criteria security evaluation, an international standard in effect since 1999. ), a level of security usually only attained by network firewalls. This high level of security ensures that the system's reliability cannot be compromised by malicious attack, such as denial of service attacks An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. , buffer-overflows, malware or other attacks. - Cluster Management - MXtreme's centralized management allows administrators to manage MXtreme clusters and to synchronize configuration settings across all systems in the cluster. Combined reports and email database searches may be derived from clustered systems. Specific features include: - Cloning - This function allows systems to be added to clusters and to assume the configuration of a defined "master" system. - Cluster Synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. - Systems within a cluster can be tied to the defined "master" system. Any changes to the configuration of the master are reflected in the configuration of all systems in the cluster. - Centralized Management - Where tight clustering is not desirable, MXtreme's centralized management scheme can be employed. This allows the administrator to propagate settings from a defined master to cluster members. - Cluster Reporting - MXtreme has the most comprehensive reporting of any email firewall system, providing statistics on all aspects of email handling, spam, viruses and system health. MXtreme also maintains a detailed database of all email that has passed through the system. MXtreme reports can be generated for a single system or for all systems in a cluster. The email database can be searched by system or by cluster. The history and status of any message can be instantly retrieved regardless of which system processed the message. - Load Balancing and Optimization - A basic requirement of high availability is to have an automated or semi-automated mechanism for switching the mail stream between available systems in the cluster, depending on their individual availability or health. BorderWare has been working with network traffic management vendors, such as F5 Networks, to enable high availability and intelligent load balancing. For example, customers that deploy F5's BIG-IP with MXtreme will realize benefits as the two products intelligently "communicate". BIG-IP can check for system health, traffic flow and current loads on any MXtreme system before forwarding SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. traffic to it. - "Stateful Failover" - Regardless of whether round robin or load balancers are used, high availability cannot be achieved unless the data itself can be protected against loss. If a system in a cluster should fail after it has received a message but before it has delivered it, that message will be lost forever. This is a function of queuing, and all SMTP store-and-forward relays are subject to the same vulnerability. As mail volumes have increased, this vulnerability has grown, and the number of messages that may be in this state - received but not yet delivered - can easily climb into the thousands. MXtreme delivers a unique solution to this problem with "stateful failover", a patent-pending process that replicates queues and intelligently synchronizes messages to a defined mirror system within a cluster. A "heartbeat" connection between multiple MXtreme systems within the cluster ensures that if any system should fail, the mirror system will deliver its messages. About BorderWare BorderWare Technologies Inc. is The Security Appliances Company. The company's MXtreme Mail Firewall appliance installs at the network edge to deliver the most comprehensive perimeter security for an organization's email infrastructure. MXtreme protects against Denial-of-Service attacks like MyDoom, buffer overflows, directory harvesting, spam, viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze par·a·lyze v. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. email communications. More than 1500 systems are deployed in 34 countries at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations. BorderWare has affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure and security including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. , Research In Motion (RIM), 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, Dubai, Dallas, San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , 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, MXtreme, The Benchmark for Email Security and HALO 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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