Cyberoam, the leading provider of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today announced that its UTM range of appliances has achieved the ICSA Labs Firewall Certification. Meeting the tough certification demands required by ICSA Labs, an independent division of Cybertrust, demonstrates that Cyberoam’s firewall capabilities can effectively protect customers’ networks from external malicious Internet threats.

For more than a decade, ICSA Labs has been the security industry's central authority for research, intelligence and certification testing of products. ICSA Labs sets standards for information security products and certifies the majority of the installed base of antivirus, firewall, IPSec VPN, cryptography, SSL VPN, network IPS, anti-spyware and PC firewall products commonly deployed in the world today.

“ICSA Labs' testing is extremely demanding and is geared toward certifying robust firewall products,” says Brian Monkman, firewall program manager, ICSA Labs. “Due to the stringent and comprehensive nature of the tests, only those products that can protect networks from threats effectively—present and future—result in attaining certification. Cyberoam has met ICSA Labs’ demanding criteria and attained the certification.”

In addition to its strong firewall capabilities, Cyberoam is the only UTM provider that embeds user identity in the firewall rule-matching criteria, eliminating IP addresses as intermediate components to identify and control the user. This offers instant visibility and provides proactive insight and control over multiple aspects of the network. User identity binds the security features to create a single, consolidated Cyberoam security unit, enabling the administrator to dynamically change easy-to-configure security policies while accounting for user movement, including joiner, leaver, rise in hierarchy and more.

“The ICSA Firewall Certification provides the highest level of validation that our firewall capabilities are among the strongest available on the market,” says Abhilash Sonwane, vice president, product management, Cyberoam. “Cyberoam is committed to providing our customers and partners with robust identity-based UTM solutions that protect networks against emerging and existing external and internal threats. And we’re backing that commitment by continuously improving upon our solutions and placing them under the rigorous testing offered by ICSA Labs.”

Cyberoam’s robust UTM solutions feature identity-based firewall, VPN, antivirus, anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering, bandwidth management and multiple link load balancing over one platform, enabling enterprises across a broad spectrum of vertical markets to implement a strong, efficient integrated Internet security strategy. Cyberoam offers security against the complete range of Internet threats, including spyware, phishing, pharming, viruses, worms, Trojans and more. Cyberoam’s intelligent reporting and analysis also allows organizations to effectively manage Internet usage, increasing the level of security, productivity and mobility while reducing the strain on internal resources.

About Cyberoam
About Cyberoam Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore, is a leading innovator of identity-based Unified Threat Management appliances offering a complete range of security features, including identity-based firewall, VPN, gateway antivirus, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, content filtering, as well as bandwidth management and multiple link management – all over a single platform. Cyberoam offers complete Internet security to corporations, educational institutions and government organizations worldwide. Cyberoam has offices in Newburyport, MA and India. For more information, please visit www.cyberoam.com

About Elitecore Technologies
Elitecore Technologies is a leading provider of convergent billing, provisioning and customer acquisition solutions, and Unified Threat Management Solutions. Elitecore’s divisions include Crestel, meeting the voice, data, video billing and customer care requirements of tier-one service providers; and Cyberoam, the leading innovator of identity-based UTM solutions that offers integrated Internet security with fine granularity through unique user identity-based policies. Elitecore was established in 1999 by Eclipse Micro Computer Inc., and possesses a strong R&D base and support center based in India, allowing the Company to sustain a healthy growth rate of more than 75 percent since inception. For more information, please visit www.elitecore.com.

About ICSA Labs
ICSA Labs, an independent division of Cybertrust, Inc., offers vendor-neutral testing and certification of security products. The end-users of security technologies rely on ICSA Labs to authoritatively set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and reliability. The organization tests products in key technology categories such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, IPSec VPN, cryptography, network intrusion prevention, PC firewall, SSL-VPN, application firewall, anti-spam and Wireless LAN. For more information, please visit www.icsalabs.com.

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