Zurich-Oerlikon, Switzerland and London, UK- September 21, 2005 - BorderWare Technologies, the leading provider of messaging security solutions, announced that it has been named as a winner of the “Innovation Driver Award”. The Innovation Driver Award presentation is part of security-zone, an independent security conference and trade show held under the patronage of the European Union. Exhibitors, institutes and IT-security vendors have been invited to present their latest innovations. A panel of expert judges drawn from research reviewed the applicants for level of innovation and for applicability to real-world problems. Eight winners were selected including Borderware’s SIPassure™ SIP Firewall. These winners will be showcased in a special area in the centre of the exhibition hall. BorderWare are a fully participant at security-zone and can be found on booth I2.

The applicants for the Innovation Driver Award included developers and academic institutions. The projects covered all areas of IT-Security authentication, detection and defend of malicious code, network prevention from various threats, encryption, enhanced security management and completely new approaches.

The need for SIP Security

Voice and data are converging and SIP has emerged as the dominant session protocol for real-time Internet-based (IP) communications.  BorderWare’s SIPassure is designed to secure and manage the dynamic nature of real-time SIP communications.  SIPassure empowers enterprises to deploy real-time messaging, voice, data, video and other SIP-based applications securely and with confidence. SIPassure provides comprehensive protection against threats with a range of controls, including unique session profiling technology that prevents spam and Denial-of-Service attacks.

"We are honored to be a winner of the Innovation Driver Award”, said Peter Cox, Vice President BorderWare Technologies and one of the speakers at security zone.  “This award recognises both the commercial value of SIPassure and the high level of technical innovation needed to implement effective security for SIP based applications.  The level adoption of these applications continues to grow as do the risks of deployment. Much like email, SIP-enabled communications are susceptible to a variety of threats that are designed to halt business operations.  BorderWare is committed to making all types of Internet communications safe.  SIPassure is part of our larger platform strategy designed to provide customers with easy management and security at the perimeter of their networks.”