Secure Computing Corp, a leading enterprise gateway security company, has announced that its Secure Web Anti-Malware engine topped an independent comparative study on anti-malware solutions from 28 vendors conducted by AV Test Labs.
 Secure Web detected 97 per cent of the samples with the best response time, and achieved a near-perfect overall score.
The research, published by AV Test Labs in June 2008, tested and scored vendors on proactive detection and response time for the samples that made it onto the Wildlist in the first quarter of 2008. This is the seventh consecutive time that Secure Web, formerly known as Webwasher, has achieved a top position in an AV Test Labs study.
Nimer Ghazal, regional sales manager, Secure Computing, commented: “The web poses various rapidly-evolving threats that can inflict damage to emerging internet-intensive regions such as the Middle East. The Arab world must focus on investing in the best technologies to combat cyber crime.”
He recommended his company’s award-winning portfolio of gateway security products, including the recently-honoured Secure Web solution, as “prime options for protection.”
“Secure Computing’s Secure Web is the industry’s first and only reputation-based Web gateway security solution that protects enterprises from spyware, phishing, malware, data leakage and internet misuse, while ensuring policy enforcement, regulatory compliance and a productive application environment,” a company spokesman said.
 “Secure Web employs the most sophisticated behavioral- and signature-based techniques for stopping malware, as well as patented content analysis software for stopping data leakage. The solution takes a new and radically different approach to Internet security, employing Secure Computing’s global reputation-based system and methodology, TrustedSource.  This assigns a reputation to message senders and Web URLs, domains and IP addresses in real-time, providing highly proactive, immediate protection.”