Cyberoam, a leading vendor of Identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions received the ‘Positive’ rating by Gartner in its June 2008 “Market Scope for Multifunction Firewalls for Small and Midsize Businesses (SMB).” Cyberoam believes it stands out in the crowded UTM market through its unique identity-based network access.

Referring to the evaluation criteria for the innovation category, the Gartner report, authored by Gartner analysts Greg Young and Adam Hils includes, “Innovation, including R&D, and quality differentiators, such as performance, meeting customer requirements in a timely manner, integration with other security products, management interface and clarity of reporting. The more a product mirrors the workflow of the enterprise operation scenario, the better the vision. Products that are not intuitive in deployment or operations are difficult to configure, or have limited reporting scores. Solving customer problems is a key element of this category. Reducing the rules base, interproduct support and leading competitors on features are important.”

“We believe the Positive Rating reflects Cyberoam’s indepth understanding of the SMB security needs,” says Hemal Patel, CEO of Elitecore Technologies, the vendor of Cyberoam. “This translates into ease of deployment and configuration as a result of Cyberoam’s unique access controls based on user identity. We feel the rating is a validation to existing and prospective partners and customers regarding Cyberoam’s capability in delivering added value over other solutions in this industry.”

Cyberoam’s identity-based network access and control gives visibility into ‘Who is Doing What?’ in the network and controls the individual user activity. In doing so, it offers great granularity in controls based on each user’s business requirements, supporting the workflow of the organization, high levels of business flexibility as well as proactive security against evolving attack patterns. Further, its multi-core technology offers high performance and scalability for rapidly growing SMBs. It also offers ease in deployment and operation, meeting the requirements of SMBs who lack dedicated IT resources to manage security.

The Gartner report adds, “Overall, the worldwide SMB multifunction firewall market was approximately $1.2 billion in 2007, with a forecast 35% to 40% compound annual growth rate through 2011. The SMB multifunction firewall market is a highly competitive, fragmented market, with more than 20 active vendors.”

Cyberoam has moved into 55 countries within a span of 2 years, including USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Australia and more, displaying speed in execution.

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About Cyberoam
Cyberoam Identity-based UTM appliances offer comprehensive protection against existing and emerging Internet threats, including viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware, phishing, pharming and more. Cyberoam delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform. Cyberoam is certified by the West Coast Labs with CheckMark UTM Level 5 Certification, ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon Business, and is a member of the Virtual Private Network Consortium. Cyberoam has also received SC Magazine’s 5 Star Rating twice in a row, the 2007 Global Excellence Awards for Integrated Security Appliance, Security Solution for Education and Unified Security, and the 2007 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award for Unified Security. Cyberoam has offices in the Newburyport, MA and India. For more information, please visit www.cyberoam.com

About Elitecore Technologies
Elitecore Technologies is the global provider of Cyberoam UTM appliances. Elitecore’s other divisions include Crestel Convergent Billing Solution that meets the voice, data, video billing and customer care requirements of Tier-1 service providers and 24online Billing and Bandwidth Management Solution for hotels, hotspots and Internet service providers. Elitecore has a strong R&D base and support center in India; it has sustained a healthy growth rate of over 75 % since inception. For more information, please visit www.elitecore.com

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