Prestigious award confirms BorderWare's leadership position in the Middle East and provides an additional layer of assurance for customers in the region

Dubai - December 16th 2006 - BorderWare Technologies, a global vendor of messaging security, privacy and compliance solutions announced today that MXtreme Mail Firewall MX-800 enterprise-class version won the 2006 Best Buy Award for Email Filtering from SC Magazine. Chosen by its editors, Best Buy is SC Magazine's top product review award and is attributed to those products rated as outstanding across a range of criteria.

This award is a strong endorsement of MXtreme as an industry-leading email security, privacy and compliance solution that enables large organizations to prevent inbound threats, control outbound content and centrally manage the email infrastructure. As highlighted by SC Magazine, MXtreme is "true enterprise-class filtering with impressive power and good integration with corporate systems."

SC Magazine offers a complete view of the information security industry providing its readers with the relevant information they need to safeguard their enterprises and meet business goals at the same time. SC Magazine provides IT security professionals a forum from which they can learn from their peers' experiences, analysts' findings, vendors' knowledge and gain from others' expertise.

"Security should be something our customers think about, not something they worry about," said Tim Leisman, CEO of BorderWare. "With the increasing nuisance and cost of spam and related data breaches, organizations require powerful, reliable email security like MXtreme."

"We're extremely pleased with SC Magazine's acknowledgement of MXtreme as a first class product. This award confirms BorderWare's leadership position in the Middle East and provides an additional layer of assurance for our customers in the region," said Dean Bell, Regional Director, Middle East and Asia Pacific, BorderWare Technologies. "We work hard to maintain this position with our customers by continually innovating. Recent innovations include our patent-pending image spam technology, Intercept Image Analysis, which shipped in November as well as the BorderWare Infinity Platform, the industry's first multi-protocol content security platform, available early 2007."

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About MXtreme
MXtreme Mail Firewall is a comprehensive email security, privacy and compliance solution that enables organizations to prevent inbound threats, control outbound content and centrally manage their email infrastructure. Built on BorderWare's hardened S-Core operating system, MXtreme is the only highly available email security system with message-level redundancy and on-demand clustering capability. To read more about this product, please visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/email/MX100.html

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 visit http://www.borderware.com or call +44 20 8759 1999 (International HQ and UK office).

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