BorderWare Announces SteelGate Firewall + VPN

November 7, 2003: Executing on its vision as a market leader in network perimeter defense solutions, BorderWare Technologies Inc. (BorderWare), The Security Appliances Company™, today announced the third addition to its security appliance product line in the past 45 days. SteelGate™ Firewall + VPN Appliance is a high-performance firewall and VPN product that delivers unrivalled security and services as a tightly integrated solution.

SteelGate is a hardware appliance that incorporates the BorderWare Firewall Server software, which has evolved through seven major releases and has been protecting key installations worldwide since 1994. The BorderWare Firewall Server was the first product of its kind to earn a Common Criteria EAL4+ with EAL5 Vulnerability Analysis security certification. In addition to the award-winning BorderWare Firewall Server 7.0, SteelGate integrates IPSec VPN functionality with powerful systems management and reporting capabilities.

"SteelGate builds on the long tradition, expertise and recognition of the BorderWare firewall technology, which was one of the pioneering solutions in the market, and the first to gain and maintain the highest standards in security certification," said John Alsop, President and CEO, BorderWare. "SteelGate also represents the next step in our aggressive campaign to deliver a series of comprehensive and 'application-specific' appliances."

SteelGate is the third product from BorderWare in a growing series of comprehensive and "application-specific" firewall appliances. In the past 45 days, BorderWare has released MXtreme Mail Firewall 3.0, NameVault DNS Server 3.0 and now SteelGate Firewall + VPN.