BorderWare and ComGuard to Showcase Infinity at GITEX Dubai 2006

DUBAI: 15 November, 2006 - ComGuard, the Dubai Internet City-based IT security solutions provider has partnered with BorderWare Technologies Inc., the leading global provider of content and application security, for the regional launch of the BorderWare Infinity Platform, the first truly integrated content security platform.

The new platform helps enterprises to counter the range of security threats encompassing all communications protocols including email, instant messaging, web, and VoIP content.

Infinity responds to the need for customers to go beyond conventional point products and reactive threat prevention services to secure their converging networks and ensure they meet corporate and regulatory compliance and personal data privacy requirements.

Designed to provide a single policy to protect both inbound and outbound traffic for all communications protocols, the BorderWare Infinity Platform provides on-demand scalability and unmatched resilience to address the needs of the most demanding networks.

"Threats are changing and business communications are using multiple network protocols. Enterprises need a next-generation security solution to effectively protect all communication channels, securing investments in their network and meet the various privacy and compliance requirements," said Dean J Bell, Regional Director, Middle East and Asia Pacific, BorderWare Technologies.

"The enhancement of ComGuard's existing product line with the addition of the BorderWare Infinity Platform allows us to offer the utmost in securing converged networks for our customers," said Herbert Kamensky, Managing Director of ComGuard. "The new platform will support customers' requirements for combating multi-protocol threats at a time when the demand for advanced security solutions for converged networks is enjoying an extraordinary growth rate in our region," he added.

The BorderWare Infinity Platform will be showcased at ComGuard's stand in the Dubai Internet City Community Zone at Gitex 2006. The stand is located at Booth 2, Concourse 2, situated between Exhibiton Halls 7 and 8 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. 

Infinity at a glance
Single Policy, Single Platform, Multiple Protocols
Customers now face a converging threat landscape involving multiple attacks across a variety of protocols, including SMTP, HTTP and now instant messaging and VoIP. With BorderWare Infinity Platform, customers no longer need to add a new class of devices to protect against every new threat, nor do they need to implement and manage separate policies for each traffic type.

Specifically, BorderWare Infinity Platform provides centralized policy enforcement, monitoring, reporting and auditing for all communications through a common interface on a scalable, reliable hardware platform. A single, integrated policy provides administrators with the ability to control traffic across multiple communications protocols.  This is critical to meet global compliance and privacy requirements to protect confidential information

Linear Scalability through On-Demand Clustering
Today's content security appliances are not infrastructure efficient. BorderWare Infinity Platform introduces a ground-breaking innovation called On-Demand Clustering for linear scalability to make better use of enterprise hardware resources and provide more unrivaled scalability.

Unmatched Resilience
With IP communications a critical part of any business today, organizations must ensure that data is protected in the event of a hardware failure. BorderWare Infinity Platform provides an innovative way to handle the problem. By implementing advanced clustering and BorderWare's patent-pending Queue Replication service, the BorderWare Infinity Platform ensures that data is never lost as long as one device in the cluster remains operational. No lost messages, no retransmissions, no dropped sessions.

Integration with Network Equipment
As opposed to requiring another device to sit on the edge of the network just to reduce the amount of traffic hitting the appliance, the BorderWare Infinity Platform uniquely and natively integrates with network equipment from F5 and Cisco. Customers can use their existing network gear to block badly behaving IP addresses in real-time.

Infinity Preview
Announcing the BorderWare Infinity Platform demonstrates BorderWare's continued development to release leading-edge solutions to meet the needs of the converging threat landscape. BorderWare announces enhancements to the existing MXtreme platform allowing businesses to prevent threats across multiple protocols including email, instant messaging and web with the ability to set single policies to set outbound compliance rules across these communications channels. The pricing model for the BorderWare Infinity Platform will allow companies to choose the required modules that apply to them matching their actual business requirements. Current MXtreme customers will acquire the benefits of the BorderWare Infinity Platform by simply licensing this new multi-protocol functionality.

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About BorderWare
BorderWare Technologies makes Internet communications safe. The company's content and application security solutions enable customers to mitigate the risks and threats associated with Internet communications. Founded in 1994, BorderWare has developed partnerships and affiliations with some of the industry's most prominent companies including Cisco Systems, F5 Networks, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, PostX, Research in Motion (RIM), RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, Symantec and Ubiquity. More than 8,000 customers in 65 countries have selected BorderWare's solutions for their superior security, scalability, business continuity and lower total cost of ownership. For more information please visit http://www.borderware.com.

For more information, please contact:
Wafa Mahdi
ComGuard FZ - LLC
IT security solutions
T: +971 4 391 6400
F: +971 4 391 6867
Email: office@comguard.net

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Baiju Francis
Account Manager
JIWIN, The Public Relations Arm of Dubai Press Club
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F:+9714 368 8 001
M:+97150 7971996 
Baiju.francis@jiwin.ae

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