BorderWare Technologies today launched domain and user reputation, a new technology and approach to combat increasingly sophisticated online threats. Dean Bell, the company’s Regional Director, Middle East and Asia Pacific stated that the product will be immediately available in the Middle East market.
The new patent-pending technology further enhances the company’s BorderWare Security Network (BSN), a real-time reputation and behaviour 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 utilise service provider or hosted mail systems that share an IP address with many domains. This leads to an incorrect categorisation 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 categorised 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 behaviours 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 behaviour 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.”
"As the anti-spam market in the Middle East matures, so does the complexity of spam. Of the more than 180 million messages received daily by BorderWare customers alone, up to 90% of spam emails are detected, with an increasing number being image-based spam, which is particularly hard to detect,” said Dean Bell, Regional Director MEA & APAC of BorderWare. “With the Internet not being confined to the Middle East, companies are exposed to world-wide threats, including spam. Many of the solutions available today show poor spam detection rates and a high rate of false positives. However, with the enhancements of the BSN technology across multiple protocols and user-specific IP reputation analysis, BorderWare has the industry's first solution to a common problem, delivering a high rate of spam detection with close to zero false positives.”
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 defence 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 behaviour 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 +44 20 8759 1999.
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