BorderWare's MXtreme gains significant accolades

Secure Data, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the exclusive southern African distributor for BorderWare security software, today announced that the latter's MXtreme Mail Firewall appliance has been specially recognised by both the Aberdeen Group and SC Magazine.

"AII interviewed customers said that they have led blissfully charmed lives during the past five years. None suffered business disruptions or system intrusions from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, etc, [although] viruses and worms were knocking out IT services for many other organisations."

The quotation is cited in a new research report from Aberdeen Group titled 'New Directions in Risk Management, Electronic Safeguards, and Protection Systems' that includes a vendor Spotlight piece on BorderWare Technologies Inc.

The Spotlight piece is part of Aberdeen's 178-page report and provides a snapshot and analysis of BorderWare, its products and feedback from customers who were directly interviewed by Aberdeen Group analysts.

The 'New Directions' report provides insight into the frameworks and mainstream substitution technologies that will decrease risk levels, assist with transformational business processes, and establish a way of thinking about the relationship between business risk and electronic safeguards that is 'outside the boxes'.

According to the Aberdeen Group report, BorderWare's award-winning MXtreme Mail Firewall "is the equivalent of a Swiss Army knife for network gateway security. Containing an abundance of features at a low price..."

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In respect to some of the reasons why customers have chosen BorderWare the report finds: "Usability, scalability, convenience, deployment, maintenance and reliability of the BorderWare appliances are rated very highly by customers. In addition, customers state that the appliances are very cost-effective and backed by excellent customer service."

"Combining anti-virus with firewall, filtering, secure Web mail for Outlook Web Access (OWA) or iNotes, and spam might have seemed overkill as recently as two years ago. However, as the enterprise's needs expand beyond fighting viruses to include spam, inappropriate usage of e-mail, networks that are overloaded by huge file attachments and new threats such as spyware, the options are clear: huge costs for sourcing and deploying multiple independent security products or the use of modularised multifunction security gateways. BorderWare's products are good examples of the new class of multifunction security gateways that aggregate common filtering functions from one network location.

Additionally, BorderWare's MXtreme has been recognised by the editors of SC Magazine as being among the Best of 2003, and it was the only product in its class to garner the acknowledgment.

Each year, SC Magazine reviews hundreds of computer security hardware and software products. MXtreme is cited in the December 2003 issue of SC Magazine's feature story 'The Best of 2003', which is a summary compilation of products that have received the highest marks in review over the past year.

"If your main concern is e-mail, this is the product you should consider," wrote Craig Hinton in his five-star review of MXtreme version 2.0.2 in the May issue. The product has since evolved to version 3.0, which integrates the market-leading Brightmail anti-spam engine for maintenance-free enterprise-grade spam protection, and the award-winning Kaspersky anti-virus technology, included as an unlimited licence.

"The above are accolades indeed and we are proud to be the exclusive distributor for BorderWare in southern Africa," added Dean Brazier, MD of SecureData.