CyberGuard Scores Again, Wins 'Best in Test' Award From Business Communications Review 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)--June 19, 2001 KnightSTAR Premium Appliance A stand-alone hardware device or software environment dedicated to a specific task. See hardware appliance and software appliance. Firewall Outscores NetScreen, Cisco, Symantec and Lucent in Stiff Competition 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 KnightSTAR(TM) premium appliance firewall has earned the "Best in Test" award from Business Communications Review magazine. The designation was awarded in the June issue of the magazine, which published a comparative review of firewalls titled "Firewalls Make The Grade." CyberGuard's overall score was the highest in the group of enterprise firewalls tested. Miercom, an independent testing laboratory and consultancy, conducted the testing 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 firewalls were evaluated and ranked on installation and ease of use, configuration, management and administration, features and performance. Miercom is an independent networking validation See validate. validation - The stage in the software life-cycle at the end of the development process where software is evaluated to ensure that it complies with the requirements. center that tests networking products so consumers can assess whether an evaluated product meets certain established standards. Miercom is the Business Communications Review preferred lab called upon for Best-in-Test reviews, and is a member of the Network World Test Alliance. CyberGuard's KnightSTAR scored an overall 88. The second-ranking firewall scored 82. Five enterprise firewalls were evaluated: CyberGuard, NetScreen, Lucent, Cisco and Symantec. A sixth, Check Point's Firewall-1, was tested but not included in the evaluation. Rob Smithers Smithers is a surname, and may refer to: People People with the surname Smithers
Mike Wittig, vice president of development and chief technology officer for CyberGuard Corporation, commented, "We are pleased to receive the 'Best in Test' designation from Business Communication Review. The evaluation was comprehensive--measuring features, function and performance of firewalls in our category designed for the enterprise market. The kind of rigorous testing that the evaluation team at Miercom puts products through is a means for consumers to gauge how those products will measure up in a real-world environment." The complete review is available online at http://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 (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, 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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