CyberGuard Premium Appliance Firewalls Continue Winning Streak; STARLord, CyberGuard's Most Powerful Firewall Appliance, Earns Five Star Overall Rating From SC Magazine.Business Editors/Technology 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)--April 3, 2001 Leading Security Industry Magazine Declares Product, "Outstanding!" CyberGuard Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). :CYBG), the technology leader in network security, today announced that the company's STARLord premium appliance firewall has earned a five-star rating - the highest rating possible - from SC Magazine in its April issue. The latest review, from one of the leading information security magazines, follows two favorable firewall comparative evaluations in March in broader computer industry publications and a strong technical review by an independent European testing authority also released in March. The SC Magazine review described CyberGuard STARLord as a high performance appliance, with "everything in one box. Extremely simple installation and initial configuration. Clear, easy-to-use management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. - can be configured at the firewall console, remotely, or 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. ." The article concluded "STARLord offers almost a plug-and-play experience for the inexperienced user, yet provides extremely high levels of flexibility and performance that belie be·lie tr.v. be·lied, be·ly·ing, be·lies 1. To picture falsely; misrepresent: "He spoke roughly in order to belie his air of gentility" James Joyce. its simplicity. This makes it an ideal choice for large organizations, ISPs and ASPs, where ease of deployment and the highest levels of performance and resilience are paramount. Outstanding!" Beyond the overall grade, SC Magazine singled out other aspects of STARLord for additional praise. -- "Impressive" hardware with a less-than-30-minute rapid recovery mechanism; -- The underlying operating system; -- Central and remote management features; -- "Totally painless" installation; -- "Ideal for large-scale remote deployment"; and -- "Automatic System Update feature." Michael Wittig Michael Wittig is best known as "Kalel," the bass player for the Christian hard rock band Pillar (who have won many Dove Awards). In 1992 he formed a Christian band in his garage. , chief technology officer for CyberGuard Corporation, commented, "STARLord's outstanding rating is even further validation of the strategy we've pursued. The results show clearly that you do not have to give up performance or ease-of-use when you use a hardened operating system. A firewall strategy that doesn't incorporate that depth of protection could be compared to a homeowner who locks the front door but leaves the back doors and windows Doors and Windows is a multimedia disk by the Irish band The Cranberries. Track listing
Within a two-week time period, each of CyberGuard's premium appliance firewalls has earned praise in independent evaluations -- Network World and InternetWeek magazines as well as a technical review from The NSS (Novell Storage Services) A 64-bit file system introduced with NetWare 5 that can support terabyte-sized files. NSS files and standard NetWare files can be used in the same server. See NetWare 5. 1. (networking) NSS - Nodal Switching System. Group. In December 2000, CyberGuard became the first company in the world to earn the prestigious Common Criteria 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. (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 for a firewall appliance. The company earned the certification, which is recognized by 15 nations around the world, for its line of premium appliance firewalls -- STARLord, KnightSTAR and FireSTAR -- and the underlying firewall technology built into the appliances. Links to the complete SC Magazine review of CyberGuard STARLord as well as all of the recent reviews are available online at www.cyberguard.com. 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, industrial-strength firewall products and services protect the integrity of data and applications from unauthorized access. CyberGuard's appliances are the world's first to receive Common Criteria EAL4 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. |
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