BorderWare and Brightmail Partnership Committed to Delivering Powerful Email Security Appliances
Anti-Spam Leader Will Continue to Provide Award-Winning Technology to MXtreme
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2004--ETC (Email Technology Conference), The Palace Hotel, Booth 4 - Network security solutions provider, BorderWare Technologies Inc., and Brightmail, the global leader in anti-spam technology, today affirmed their global partnership to offer customers the Brightmail enterprise anti-spam technology with BorderWare's new MXtreme Mail Firewall version 4.0. BorderWare has included Brightmail as an option for customers in previous versions of MXtreme since July 2003.
The MXtreme Mail Firewall, which recently became the world's first Common Criteria EAL4+ certified email security appliance, extends email security beyond anti-spam and anti-virus controls, providing customers with an in-depth defense against a complete range of threats to email. MXtreme 4.0 adds new features and functionality in five essential areas - security, policy enforcement, manageability, audit reporting, and high availability - to deliver the industry's most robust solution for securing an enterprise's entire email infrastructure.
"Customers recognize the need to integrate a series of best-of-breed email defenses within a single, secure, failsafe solution that delivers high availability to ensure zero downtime, zero latency and zero message loss. Incorporating the Brightmail solution within MXtreme helps Borderware set the benchmark in email security, and automatically delivers the most effective spam-fighting technology that requires no on-going IT administration," said John Alsop, President and CEO, BorderWare Technologies.
Brightmail filters more than 100 billion messages per month for its customers and currently protects 300 million mailboxes, an estimated 25% of all mailboxes globally. Through an unparalleled architecture of layered protection that combines source filters, signatures, heuristics, content filters and call-to-action rules to deliver an unmatched range of spam protection for email environments, Brightmail Anti-Spam delivers the highest level of effectiveness in blocking spam while accurately ensuring that legitimate messages are delivered, with the industry's best false positive rate of less than 1 in a million.
"Our partnership with BorderWare continues to flourish," said Enrique Salem, President and CEO of Brightmail. "Organizations today recognize the need to secure their email systems from the harmful effects of spam, viruses and other threats like denial of service attacks and directory harvesting. Our combined offering has successfully protected enterprises of all sizes and government users around the world from these threats."
About Brightmail
Brightmail, the global anti-spam market leader delivers technology that makes messaging environments secure and manageable. PC Magazine's EDITORS CHOICE for best enterprise anti-spam software, Brightmail Anti-Spam protects the email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, blocking unsolicited bulk email, or "spam", while assuring that legitimate mail is reliably delivered. Brightmail protects over 1,800 enterprises globally, including Avaya, eBay, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, Cypress Semiconductors, Deutsche Bank, Eastman, Lucent Technologies, Macromedia, Microsoft, Motorola, SAS and Terra Lycos. Brightmail also provides spam protection for the leading Internet service providers, including AT&T WorldNet, Cox Communications, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Xtra and Verizon Online. Brightmail now protects approximately 300 million mailboxes worldwide. For more information, visit www.brightmail.com.
About BorderWare
Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of network security solutions for enterprises and government. BorderWare has more than 5000 customers worldwide, with systems deployed at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure and security including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, F5 Networks, RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Brightmail, Kaspersky Labs, and Network Engines. BorderWare is privately held and headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900.
(C) 2004 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare and The Benchmark for Email Security are trademarks and MXtreme is a registered trademark of BorderWare Technologies Inc. Brightmail is a U.S. registered trademark. Brightmail Anti-Spam is a trademark of Brightmail Incorporated. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.
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