Now those aren’t backplane speeds or pie in the sky, UDP 1500 byte packet throughput numbers with protection turned off either. Vendors marketing teams love to quote us numbers that are meaningless in the real world. The performance numbers Cisco is quoting are real world performance numbers based on a mix of various rich media traffic samples with recommended firewall protection features turned on.

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Until recently, teachers accessed report cards through an application running on an internal server. With a finite number of school-based PCs, 5,500 teachers and nearly 400 school administrators accessing the system, the school board determined it needed to build a high-performance Web-based report card application that would provide teachers with secure remote access and the freedom to fill out report cards for more than 90,000 students at their convenience.

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The SC Awards Europe salute solutions that meet the challenges in today’s business environment. It is widely considered the most prestigious awards program in the information security industry and stand out as a benchmark of achievement. In their 13th year, the awards have a long-standing tradition of promoting excellence.

The 2008 Awards presentation will be held on 22 April at the Hurlingham Club in London. For more information on the SC Awards Europe visit www.scmagazine.com/uk/awards.

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“We wanted to make sure we were not just releasing check box type functionality but took time to understand what the real needs were for messaging security and provide a solution,” said Paul Kaspian, project manager with Check Point.

Check Point’s messaging security platform in UTM-1 includes e-mail intrusion prevention technologies combined with multi-layered defense against spam and viruses. Anti-spam technologies include advanced pattern detection to detect image-based and foreign language spam, and IP-based reputation scoring to catch newly emerging attacks like PDF spam and MP3 spam. Kaspian said that the new platform blocks 97 per cent of all spam and there less than one in a million false positives. Additionally, Check Point messaging security also offers multi-layered anti-virus with both signature-based protection against known threats as well as zero-day protection to block attacks as they occur and before a signature is available.

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Propalms VPN will provide secure remote access for small to large enterprises without any restrictions on the amount of users logging in remotely. Since applications are managed centrally by Propalms VPN, operational costs are reduced and network security is improved. Typically, development of this software product would take two years and cost over $2 million; however, Propalms intends to acquire the finished product and the intellectual property from a software development company in India. This will allow Propalms to release the product to market in the first half of 2008.

“This new opportunity has the potential to generate substantial revenue for the Company and we are extremely excited about the prospects that it holds for our customers and our shareholders. This product will allow any number of users to remotely access their applications, which will enable companies to run more efficiently and cut down on their operational costs,” stated Owen Dukes, CEO of Propalms, Inc.

Propalms recently announced that the Company will be entering the desktop virtualization market in 2008 with the launch of its Virtual Desktop Manager technology within its new TSE product.

About Propalms, Inc.:

Propalms TSE, the complete Server-Based Management solution that extends Microsoft Terminal Services 2000/2003, offers features such as Application Publishing, Seamless Windows, Resource-based Load balancing, and Web-based management consoles.

NCP is thereby the first manufacturer worldwide to offer an IPSec VPN client
for Windows XP in its 64 bit version. Additional important features are the
2-factor authentication solution OTP Mobile; besides that the client supports
certificates with 4096 bit key lengths.

The NCP VPN Client thereby supports all current Microsoft operating
systems: Windows Vista and Windows XP for 32/64 Bit, Windows 2000 as well as
Windows Mobile and CE. Consequently, integrated configurations and security
measures can be built in that are independent of the operating system. With
the NCP Secure Client, it’s all about a universal security and communications
software for implementation in any desired remote access VPN environment. The
software is compatible with VPN gateways from all well known vendors. They
are implemented anyplace where gateway manufacturers offer no corresponding
client for certain operating systems and customers need easy to use,
universally applicable VPN clients.

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Transforming the existing ISDN network, Global Crossing’s high quality IP VPN is designed to improve customer service, reduce waiting times for in-store transactions and cut operating costs.

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Virus Bulletin staff tested FortiClient 3.0 along with 26 other antivirus products for detection rates, lack of false positives and speed of scanning. This latest VB100 award adds to Fortinet’s portfolio of technology certifications and accolades — including eight VB100 awards, NSS Labs UTM certification and six ICSA Labs certifications (firewall, antivirus, IPSec, SSL VPN, Network IPS and antispyware).

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A key feature of the new firewall is its ability to offer users two alternative, optimally secure connections to the network. These are Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and IP security (IPsec) virtual private network (VPN) tunnels. 
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