Cerberian And SnapGear Sign Distribution Agreement

March 12, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cerberian (cerberian.com), a provider of employee Internet management services, and Snapgear (snapgear.com), a supplier of consumer VPN router appliances and OEM solutions, announced on Tuesday that they have signed a software licensing and distribution agreement.

According to the agreement, SnapGear will private label and distribute Cerberian’s Internet Manager filtering and reporting service through its SnapGear Internet security appliances. The company’s plug-and-play hardware is designed for a range of applications, from home use to small- to medium-sized businesses and large companies with branch offices. The devices feature firewall protection, broadband access sharing, virtual private network and free software updates and bug fixes.

Cerberian’s Internet Manager is designed to allow organizations to manage, monitor and report on employee Internet usage, regardless of location, through a Web-based filtering service. The product is designed to help improve employee productivity and reduce drain on network bandwidth.

"Cerberian has developed proven technology that fits perfectly into our Internet security appliances," says Peter Cronk, president of SnapGear Inc. "Both companies are committed to providing affordable, easy-to-use products and services that feature cutting-edge technology and require very little maintenance and support. Our customers will appreciate Cerberian's integrated software."

According to SnapGear, Cerberian’s technology features one of the largest databases of pre-viewed and categorized URLs, a patent-pending rapid data capture service, which captures and monitors a computer’s Internet activity, and the company’s patented Dynamic Real-Time Rating technology, based on Neural Net and proprietary vectoring technology that instantly reads, rates and categorizes Web content on the fly.