BorderWare Introduces the Latest Advancement for Real-Time, Perimeter and Web Reputation Security – the ReputationAuthority

BorderWare Technologies Inc., the leading global provider of messaging and Web security, privacy and compliance solutions, today introduced the BorderWare ReputationAuthority, the world’s most effective and accurate reputation system for proactively protecting networks in real-time against spam, malware and network attacks. The ReputationAuthority system is the next-generation advancement in reputation database technology that protects networks across multiple protocols and threat vectors.

The newly introduced and branded BorderWare ReputationAuthority is the second generation of the previous system, the BorderWare Security Network. The BorderWare Security Network — like all competitive reputation database networks available today — merely monitored email traffic with limited Web traffic threat prevention. With the ReputationAuthority, BorderWare customers are now protected at the perimeter with a real-time, multi-protocol threat prevention and unwanted traffic blocking system that is included in the BorderWare Security Platform, the flagship product of the company.

“With ReputationAuthority as the next-generation, first-line defense against email and Web threats, BorderWare is the only provider capable of identifying and preventing network security threats at the volume, diversity and speed they are evolving,” said Tim Leisman, CEO and President of BorderWare Technologies. “BorderWare ReputationAuthority combines ongoing primary threat intelligence with third-party security research to assess and address even the newest threats at the connection level, for a real-time platform approach that minimizes the impact on users, data, daily operations and business relationships.”

BorderWare Protects 98.3%, Others 80%

“Other reputation networks use first-generation technology and techniques to protecting networks by only monitoring the traffic, without contributing discovered data back to the network, which results in a prevention rate of only 80 percent,” said Leisman. “Also, other reputation networks are totally reliant on third-party DNS black list providers for their data, resulting in ‘credit bureau’ or ‘credit report’ types of protection — these are based on historical, dated information, not the current, real-time behavioral information required to handle today’s threat ecosystem.”

In contrast, the BorderWare ReputationAuthority is the first and only real-time, behavioral analysis threat and spam prevention system purposely created for business, delivering 98.3-percent accuracy for rejecting spam and preventing threats, malware and attacks across email and the Web. “Quite simply, this service dramatically improves network bandwidth, savings and security by blocking unwanted traffic at the perimeter before it enters the network,” said Leisman. “By providing a minimum 18-percent block rate versus competitors, ReputationAuthority gives our Channel Partners a significant competitive advantage in a market seemingly flooded with lookalike ‘solutions.’”

“Our customers’ IT organizations are constantly challenged to keep pace with the sheer magnitude of spam, virus, malware, spyware and network attacks like directory harvesting that enter their network in email and Web traffic,” said Daniel Peters, vice president of sales at Peters and Peters; customer and partner of BorderWare Technologies Inc. “With the BorderWare ReputationAuthority policing all messaging and Web activity for our network and our customer’s network at the perimeter, unwanted traffic is blocked at the connection level, resulting in instant savings and a greater level of security.”

Unique Features & Capabilities

The BorderWare ReputationAuthority examines multiple threats across multiple protocols for a comprehensive, zero-management first layer of network defense with a robust set of capabilities:

Examines, learns and correlates threats from mass volume of messages, Web pages and data

Accesses and updates wide and accurate database(s) of reputation data and blacklists based on deep content analysis and volumetric information

Performs multiple layers of analysis and examination across all aspects of an e-mail, including headers, content and files/images/attachments

Delivers accuracy with zero to near-zero false positives

Instantaneously reports threats detected across the global network

Automatically updates global network protection instantaneously

Rejects up to 98.3% of connection-level threats and spam from entering the network

Availability

As a core component of the flagship BorderWare Security Platform, the ReputationAuthority was released as an update to the current network of email, web and firewall BorderWare customers and partners. The BorderWare ReputationAuthority is provided free today for all customers and partners as a critical component of the BorderWare Security Platform product and its industry-leading secure content and threat prevention solutions.

Details regarding the Reputation Authority service and its capabilities are available at http://www.borderware.com or by contacting BorderWare at info@borderware.com.

About BorderWare Security Platform

The BorderWare Security Platform is a set-and-forget, all-inclusive email and Web appliance that is specifically designed for enterprise’s to centrally control, protect and manage both inbound and outbound messaging. By providing the most comprehensive and affordable solution for both inbound threats of virus, spam and network attack protection with outbound privacy with encryption, prevention of data loss, and correlated policy management with email and Web traffic, the BorderWare Security Platform provides consolidated reporting, management and security for email and Web security.

About BorderWare

BorderWare Technologies is the leading email and Web secure content and threat management platform provider for enterprises, government and service providers. The BorderWare Security Platform powers the correlation of threat prevention across multiple protocols while consolidating reporting, administration and content security for total visibility and control of email, IM and Web security in an easy-to-use, high-performance and innovative appliance. The BorderWare ReputationAuthority is provided with the BorderWare Security Platform appliance to block 98.3% of spam and malware threats from entering the network. More information about the BorderWare Security Platform flagship product is available online at http://www.borderware.com.