BorderWare and Cisco Team to Offer Mail Security Solutions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2003 BorderWare Technologies Inc., a leading provider of network security solutions, announces that it has joined the Cisco AVVID AVVID Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (Cisco) AVVID Architecture for Voice Video and Integrated Data (Architecture for Voice and Video Integrated Data) ecosystem program as a Technology Affiliate member. Customers can now deploy MXtreme(tm) Mail Firewall appliances to protect internal email systems and to ensure secure access for remote Internet users. The Cisco AVVID partner program sets criteria for interoperability testing by independent third parties and is a co-marketing program enabling leading product and services firms to deploy innovative new e-business solutions. The program provides customers with solutions that have been independently tested and verified to interoperate with specific versions of Cisco networking technology within the SAFE (Secure Architecture for E-business) blueprint. The BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall installs at the network edge to provide comprehensive perimeter security for email systems. SPAM, viruses, worms, directory harvesting, relay attacks and eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. are just some of the threat areas addressed. MXtreme also allows secure access to corporate mail from any Internet-connected computer by enhancing the security of existing web mail features. "The stringent AVVID partner program interoperability tests have been achieved and this now opens substantial opportunities for BorderWare with e-business customers," says 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. , President and 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. of BorderWare Technologies Inc. "MXtreme also provides innovative anti-SPAM enforcement which complements Cisco's SAFE Security Blueprint philosophy that has led Cisco to such success. We are very excited about the synergies created by this partnership." About BorderWare Technologies Inc. BorderWare Technologies Inc., the first firewall vendor to obtain 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 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+ Certification, is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London; Frankfurt; Stockholm, Washington DC and San Jose. BorderWare develops and supplies easy-to-use, highly secure Internet Gateway products and services based on its unique, field-proven S-CORE technology. BorderWare's range of solutions includes the Firewall Server, 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. client-server solutions, the Document Gateway(TM) and the MXtreme (TM) Mail Firewall. |
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