Webwasher employs best-of-breed technology to provide superior detection in a rapidly evolving threat environment
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ:SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security company, today announced that in an independent test published in PC Magazine, Secure Computing's Webwasher Anti-Malware engine ranked in first place out of 29 vendors as the top product for detecting malware in an aggressive evaluation. The research, conducted by independent AV-Test.org Labs (http://www.av-/ test.org), mirrored the true magnitude of malware threats and illustrated the varying degrees of effectiveness of anti-malware products in detecting these threats.
The test bombarded each solution with over 606,000 different malicious files and evaluated malware detection capabilities. With a combination of Trojans, backdoors, bots (zombies) and over 82 thousand worms to detect, Secure Computing's Webwasher technology emerged as the clear winner, detecting 99.83 percent of the malicious files. Of the 29 products tested, half of the products received scores of under 90 percent. Indicative of the wide range of product efficacy in the industry, 20 percent of the solutions tested scored less than 85 percent in detection abilities.
"AV-Test Labs is one of the most credible and highly-regarded test labs in the security community. Receiving a top score from AV-Test Labs validates our pioneering, reputation-based approach," said Atri Chatterjee, senior vice president of Marketing, Secure Computing. "As demonstrated, we provide the most advanced, innovative and effective solutions to our customers." Webwasher is the industry's first and only reputation-based Web gateway security solution that protects enterprises from spyware, phishing, malware, data leakage, and Internet misuse, while ensuring policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, and a productive application environment. Webwasher incorporates global intelligence from the company's industry-leading reputation system, TrustedSource(TM), which provides source-based reputation scores for web page content, messages, attachments and images. These scores convey up-to-the minute host behavior analysis which can be used to determine whether a connection to the enterprise network should be allowed to occur. Webwasher employs the most sophisticated behavioral and signature-based techniques for stopping malware, as well as patented content analysis software for stopping data leakage.
The original article can be found at: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2135092,00.asp About Secure Computing Secure Computing (NASDAQ:SCUR), a leading provider of enterprise gateway security, delivers a comprehensive set of solutions that help customers protect their critical Web, email and network assets. Over half the Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 are part of our more than 20,000 global customers in 106 countries, supported by a worldwide network of more than 2,300 partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information, see http://www.securecomputing.com/.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the PC Magazine article and the expected benefits of such an article, and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays in product development, undetected software errors or bugs, competitive pressures, technical difficulties, changes in customer requirements, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Secure Computing's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Ally Zwahlen Paula Dunne
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