WatchGuard Introduces New Security Services Solidifying Its Leadership in Unified Threat Management

"New software enables centralized management of appliances and security services that defend against spyware, spam, viruses and other intrusions. spamBlocker is based on innovative technology thatanalyzes Internet message patterns, not the message data, resulting inreal-time spam detection in a fraction of a second before spam evenenters the network. This is done in partnership with Commtouch(Nasdaq:CTCH), which developed Recurrent Pattern Detection(TM) (RPD)technology predicated on the fact that the fundamental characteristicof spam is mass distribution. Rather than evaluating message content,the RPD technology analyzes large volumes of Internet traffic inreal-time to identify outbreaks as soon as they emerge. The RPDapproach results in the best service in the industry at distinguishinglegitimate communication from new spam outbreaks, blocking more than97% of unwanted emails, with very low false positives. Since manyphishing attacks, online scams, viruses and spyware are initiatedthrough spam, the spamBlocker solution is the first line of defenseagainst those threats. With processing done off the appliance, thereis minimal impact on network performance. WatchGuard's Firebox X Coreand Peak are the only UTM appliances to offer this real-time anti-spamprevention." Source: finanzen.net