phion Information Technologies and OPSWAT Announce Partnership to Enhance Endpoint Security for Remote Access Users

Innsbruck, Austria and San Francisco, CA (PRWeb) February 26, 2007 -- phion Information Technologies (www.phion.com), a leading European provider of security and communication infrastructures, and OPSWAT, Inc. (www.opswat.com), a leading provider of endpoint security application integration technologies, today announced a partnership wherein phion will incorporate OESIS Local and OESIS Monitor from OPSWAT into phion netfence.

The partnership will enhance capabilities of the phion netfence to enforce antivirus, antispyware, antiphising, Windows OS patch-level and firewall security policy as part of phion's upcoming endpoint security product line and network access control framework .

It will consist of a managed endpoint client and corresponding policy management servers. Information such as antivirus and anti-spyware application status can be reported and may be used in a policy match.

"With companies expanding their remote access capabilities to a variety of locations, entities and access equipment, the security policy enforcement for endpoints has become a necessity" said Dr. Klaus Gheri, CTO and co-founder at phion. "Partnering with OPSWAT allows us to provide advanced security enforcement services to our customers in order to protect them from unsafe or compromised endpoints."

OESIS Local is an open platform used by technology vendors to detect and control most endpoint security applications in the market. Technology vendors embed OESIS Local into their products, empowering their products to manage third-party security applications installed on client machines.

OESIS Monitor is a data service that monitors signature and product updates within minutes of release from antivirus and antispyware vendors. OESIS Monitor empowers technology vendor products to check the currency of antivirus and antispyware applications detected on client machines using OESIS Local.

"Being able to manage remote access securely is increasingly important," said Benny Czarny, OPSWAT's founder and CEO. "The combination of OPSWAT OESIS and phion netfence gives IT administrators superior control over securing the health of any remote machine accessing the network."

About phion Information Technologies:
phion Information Technologies is one of the leading providers in Europe of enterprise security solutions. With its netfence product portfolio, phion offers solutions that meet the highest standards of availability, security and management. phion netfence provides a comprehensive answer to all security-related issues, ranging from guarding the perimeter, networking branch offices via reliable and highly available connections, to protecting against malicious content and securing internal networks. All phion products feature centralized management and a very favorable TCO.

phion Information Technologies was founded in 2000 and is based in Innsbruck, Austria. phion's customers include well-known global companies spanning a wide spectrum of industries.

About OPSWAT
OPSWAT, Inc. (www.opswat.com) is a leading provider of endpoint security integration technologies and data services. OPSWAT customers include technology companies, system integrators and corporations developing products to detect, manage and remediate security features of antivirus, antispyware, antiphishing antispam, personal firewall, browser, instant messaging and VPN client applications. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Herzliya, Israel.

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