Released on: June 30, 2008, 11:40 am

Press Release Author: Engate Technology

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Advanced Anti-botnet Security Solution Preemptively Detects
Threats and Maintains Superior Effectiveness in the Face of New, Sophisticated
Spamming Techniques

Press Release Body: San Jose, CA - June 30, 2008 - Engate Technology Corporation, a
leading anti-spam provider and pioneer of next generation network profiling
anti-botnet solutions, today announced the latest release of its flagship product,
Engate MailSentinelT 3.6. The new release introduces significant enhancements to its
proprietary GlobalRulesT database, enabling organizations to instantly detect
botnets and preemptively stop the delivery of email-borne attacks such as spam,
viruses and worms at the protocol level with customer-proven 99% accuracy. Engate
MailSentinel is available to service providers and enterprises and can be licensed
to anti-spam software, security appliance, router, firewall, and unified threat
management vendors.

Botnets are one of the most dangerous online security threats today where it is
estimated that 40% of the 800 million computers on the Internet unsuspectingly
distribute spam, steal private data, launch crippling denial-of-service attacks, and
spread new infections. Botnets are difficult to detect and even more challenging to
stop as their dynamic and adaptive capabilities empower them to self-propagate
through their own established peer-to-peer networks and evade conventional detection
techniques by covertly relocating the command server and spam load to another,
as-yet-undiscovered, bot.

Conventional Security Approaches are Obsolete
By design, botnets are very effective in defeating conventional anti-spam
technologies because the emails are covertly sent from trusted sources, rendering
today's anti-spam technologies such as reputation systems and blacklists obsolete.
Likewise, traditional content filtering solutions are failing as botnets continue to
use innovative forms of image spam, pdf spam and audio files, etc. to bypass
filters. As these innovative forms of spam are typically five to ten times larger
than a text-based message, the problem intensifies as email servers and network
bandwidth becomes overloaded with the growing size and volume of spam, disrupting
the efficient delivery of legitimate email.

Network Profiling Technology Eliminates Botnet Threats at the Connection Level
Utilizing global network intelligence, Engate's advanced network profiling
technology delivers unprecedented real-time visibility into malicious sources from
around the world. Engate's anti-botnet solution employs patented network profiling,
source verification, and anti-forgery techniques to identify and block email-borne
botnet attacks in real-time and at the protocol layer, while allowing legitimate
email to pass to the recipient.

Engate uniquely profiles every IP address within the network, segregates legitimate
mail servers from all other network hosts, and establishes proprietary 'smart rules'
that have the unique ability to immediately identify compromised computers, detect
protocol fraud, and intelligently reject illicit connections at the network level.
Engate's global intelligence is instantly aware of new computers that become members
of botnets and stops the distribution of email-borne threats at the protocol level,
before it reaches the enterprise gateway and has a chance to compromise IT
resources, slow down network performance, crash servers and invade privacy.

Engate's proactive anti-botnet protection delivers customer-proven 99% accuracy at
wire speed, helping to ensure business continuity and deliver substantial benefits
to a myriad of organizations:

> Enterprises safeguard their data, reduce bandwidth and storage costs, conserve IT
resources and improve user productivity by reducing the time dealing with spam on
the desktop, laptop and PDAs.
> ISPs identify infected computers, shut down spam relays, prevent identity theft,
and restore the bandwidth subscribers have paid for.
> Hardware and software OEMs differentiate their products with a deeper layer of
security that stops botnet-driven attacks at the network level with the highest
accuracy in the market.

Protocol-independent Anti-botnet Security Cannot be Compromised
Unlike traditional content filter and reputation security technologies, Engate
cannot be compromised because it proactively works with the source of networks at
the protocol layer rather than reactively filtering and storing spam messages inside
the network. Engate's protocol-independent technology is ideal for SMTP, instant
messaging, mobile applications, and protocols such as VoIP as they become an
increasingly popular mechanism to distribute malicious files and executables.

"Engate continues to deliver on the promise of proactive email security with a
unique network profiling technology that delivers an unparalleled real-time view of
offending networks. Engate preemptively detects rogue PCs before the first spam is
transmitted, which permanently blocks all variations of spam at the protocol level,"
said Richard White, Chief Technology Officer, Engate Technology. "No botnet,
regardless of its sophistication, can penetrate Engate's proprietary technology.
Engate acts as a silent and undetected observer where we are invisibly profiling
offending networks and monitoring malicious activity. By using envelope source
information along with a multitude of proprietary techniques, we cannot be
compromised by a botnet's present or future tactics. Engate offers a permanent
solution to protecting organizations from new and ever-evolving threats that current
content filters and reputations systems cannot stop."

Hardware and Software OEMs Differentiate with Real-time, Anti-botnet Protection
With a leading vision of the email security market, Engate delivers incremental
value to security software, appliance, router, firewall, and UTM vendors by
augmenting their multi-layer security strategies with future proof anti-botnet
security. Engate's unique network profiling technology empowers OEM vendors to
achieve industry-leading 99% accuracy with the lowest rate of false positives -
improving customer renewals and competitive conversions.

With Engate, OEM vendors differentiate their products by helping enterprise
customers to radically reduce the large volume of unwanted traffic from reaching
their email gateway -- improving throughput as much as ten fold and delivering
unmatched performance with no mail delivery delays. Proactively detecting botnets
and blocking spam at the network level enables organizations to lower capital and
operating costs as a result of reduced bandwidth, storage and processing power. In
addition, user and IT productivity is significantly improved by radically reducing
the large volume of unwanted traffic prior to reaching the desktop, laptop and
mobile PDA devices.

Fast, Easy and Risk-free Evaluation
Companies can sign up today for a free trial of Engate's network layer anti-spam
security. Registrants have the option to sign up for an on-premise or a hosted
trial evaluation. This no-cost, fully-functional trial version is a fast, easy and
risk-free way for organizations to evaluate Engate's preemptive anti-spam
functionality. Within minutes of installing, users will experience comprehensive
protection from spam, image spam, pdf spam, phish, and email-borne attacks, etc.
Register by visiting: www.engate.com/trial/.

About Engate Technology
Engate Technology Corporation is a leading anti-spam provider and pioneer of next
generation network profiling email security solutions for service providers and
enterprises, and can be licensed to security software, appliance, router, firewall,
and unified threat management vendors. The company's award-winning flagship product,
Engate MailSentinelT, is instantly aware of new computers that become members of
botnets and stops the distribution of email-borne threats at the protocol level,
before it reaches the enterprise gateway and has a chance to compromise IT
resources, slow down network performance, crash servers and invade privacy. For
more information, contact Engate at 775.745.7151, info@engate.com, or visit the
company's website at www.engate.com.




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