Reputation Service assesses online threats.February 1, 2007 -
Featuring domain and user reputation technology, BorderWare Security Network (BSN) provides micro-assessment of content to guard against threats such as spam, phishing, and flooding. Real-time reputation and behavior analysis for email, web, IM, and VoIP detects potentially compromised or infected traffic. Individual domain or user behaviors are flagged, graded, and rejected, ensuring legitimate traffic can be sent and received without delay.
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BorderWare Technologies Inc.
90 Burnhamthorpe Rd., W., Suite 1402
Mississauga, ON, L5B3C3
USA
BorderWare Raises the Bar on Reputation Services with New Patent-Pending Technology
Technology Provides More Accurate Assessment of Online Threats
TORONTO, Jan. 29 - BorderWare Technologies today launched domain and user reputation, a new technology and approach to combat increasingly sophisticated online threats. The new patent-pending technology further enhances the company's BorderWare Security Network (BSN), a real-time reputation and behavior analysis service for email, web, IM and VoIP, by examining and tracking the content of traffic across domains and users to determine potential risks. The new approach is an evolution of today's reputation services, elevating threat detection from macro-level IP-only trend analysis to a real-time micro-assessment of content from multiple users and domains - an industry first in reputation services and a critical next step in the fight against threats such as spam, phishing and flooding.
Traditional reputation systems, focused primarily on email, simply base their reputation score on the traffic monitored from an IP address. However, many businesses and individuals today utilize service provider or hosted mail systems that share an IP address with many domains. This leads to an incorrect categorization of their reputation and a higher percentage of legitimate emails being blocked. According to traffic monitored by BSN, over 10 percent of the billions of email messages traversing the Internet each day are incorrectly categorized in this manner, resulting in millions of legitimate emails being blocked through this simple reputation.
BSN works by conducting ongoing, real-time reputation analysis of the content sent from IPs, domains and users across multiple applications - email, web, IM and VoIP. As BSN detects potentially compromised or infected traffic - based on more than 30 metrics established by BorderWare - individual domain or user behaviors are flagged, graded and rejected, ensuring that legitimate traffic can be sent and received without delay while compromised traffic is rejected.
"When traditional reputation services blacklist an entire IP address based on traffic patterns alone, multiple domains and thousands of users that send legitimate email from that IP will be affected," said Tim Leisman, CEO of BorderWare. "Our new BSN technology breaks through this dilemma by providing a behavior score at the sender level, thereby accurately separating the good apples from the bad. Companies can trust that their Internet communications will be uninterrupted and free from attack and threats."
"Across email alone, BorderWare has more than 2,000 business clients processing more than 180 million messages from more than 1,700,000 unique IP addresses daily with a rejection rate of up to 90% of all spam," said Tim Leisman. "This confirms that the volume and sophistication of spam continues to climb. With our new technology developments, such as Intercept(TM) Image Analysis and BSN, we're committed to staying one step ahead in today's dynamic threat landscape."
About BorderWare Security Network - http://bsn.borderware.com/
With the convergence of threats, analyzing email-sending habits and volume is no longer sufficient to provide the proactive, real-time defense customers need to protect against all types of attacks. BorderWare Security Network protects customers from more than email attacks. It is the first and only service to analyze the reputation and behavior of IP addresses, domains and senders across email, web, IM and VoIP - immediately at the perimeter with a zero false-positive rate, providing unprecedented protection for today's converged networks.
About BorderWare
BorderWare Technologies makes Internet communications safe. The company's messaging security, privacy and compliance 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. Thousands of customers around the world 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/ or call 1-877-814-7900.
(c) 2007 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare, MXtreme, Infinity and S-Core are trademarks of BorderWare Technologies Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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