CyberGuard's New SL3200 Firewall/VPN Appliance Wins ``Best in Test'' Award from Business Communications Review Magazine.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2003 CyberGuard Corporation (Nasdaq:CGFW), the technology leader in network security, announced today that its powerful new SL3200 firewall/VPN appliance has earned the "Best in Test" award in the just-published August issue of Business Communications Review magazine. The article, titled "Security Gateways Debut," compares products that incorporate two or more security features into their solution. Miercom, an independent testing laboratory and networking validation center, conducted the testing for the magazine at their labs in Princeton Junction, New Jersey Princeton Junction is also a New Jersey Transit and Amtrak station on the Northeast Corridor line. Princeton Junction is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within West Windsor Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey. . The security gateways, which included devices from CyberGuard, Fortinet, ServGate, Symantec and Nokia, were evaluated and ranked on installation and ease of use, configuration, management and administration, features and performance. 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. the article, "CyberGuard's SL3200 emerged a clear winner, beating its competition in three of the five categories tested - Configuration, Management and Administration, and Features." This is the second time the magazine has named a CyberGuard appliance "Best in Test." In June 2001, the KS 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. earned the top designation in a comparative review of enterprise firewalls. Mike Wittig, vice president of development and chief technology officer for CyberGuard Corporation, commented, "This kind of acknowledgement in a highly respected industry journal is extremely gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. . The independent evaluation facility puts products through rigorous testing that offers consumers a means to gauge how products will measure up in a real-world environment." The complete review is available online at http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2003/08/p20.asp. About CyberGuard Corporation CyberGuard Corporation, the technology leader in network security, provides enterprise and electronic commerce security solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and governments worldwide. CyberGuard's award winning firewall/VPN products and services protect the integrity of data and applications from unauthorized access. CyberGuard's appliances, which include SL, KS, FS and LX, hold 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 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. 4+ (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, the most prestigious and rigorous IT security evaluation available. The company has world headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and branch offices worldwide. More information on CyberGuard Corporation can be found at http://www.cyberguard.com. Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve certain risks, uncertainties and factors, including without limitation, those described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that may cause the Company's future actual results to materially differ from the Company's current expectations. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. |
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