LONDON, March 23, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Whale Communications, the leading Application Aware(tm) SSL VPN vendor, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 programme in the "Best VPN" category. As one of the Reader Trust Awards, the selection of Whale as one of the three finalists in this category was made by the readers of SC Magazine. The SC Awards are well recognised as one of the leading security industry awards programmes, attracting over 900 nominations this year across the various categories.
This recognition follows other recent analyst and industry awards Whale has received, including:
-- Frost & Sullivan's "Best in Class" Award for
Application & Content Security
-- The "People's Security Choice" 2004 from MSD2D
(awarded at the 2004 RSA conference)
-- A Bronze from SearchNetworking.com in its 2003
"Products of the Year" awards
Winners will be announced on April 27th at the SC Awards Gala Dinner in London, which takes place on the opening evening of the Infosecurity Europe exhibition. Whale will be demonstrating at Infosecurity at Stand 136 the benefits of fully flexible, secure remote working. In addition, Whale customer, Financial Times, will be giving a special presentation "Mobile Working: Is It Putting Your Applications At Risk?" at 11.00 am on April 27th in the seminar theatre.
About Whale's Application Aware SSL VPN
Application Aware SSL VPNs enable enterprises to provide remote access not only to trusted employees from un-trusted endpoints but also un-trusted users from un-trusted endpoints. Now enterprises can easily extend their SSL VPN usage to provide access to customers and partners as well as employees. By being application aware Whale's e-Gap Remote Access Appliance is the ultimate secure access layer. It has built-in support for key applications and the ability to learn additional applications with ease. Whale's flexible platform is designed to meet the secure access needs of enterprises today and tomorrow.
About Whale Communications
Whale Communications, the leading enterprise-class SSL VPN vendor, is enabling companies to provide employees and partners secure access to corporate data and applications from any web browser. Its award-winning solutions have been securing enterprises worldwide since it was founded in 1998. Privately held, Whale is funded by prominent venture firms and industry leaders, including Goldman Sachs, Soros Private Equity Partners and the BRM Group, the founding investor of Check Point Software Technologies. The company is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and has international offices in London, Frankfurt and Tel Aviv.
Whale Communications, e-Gap, Application Aware, Attachment Wiper and the Whale logo are trademarks of Whale Communications Ltd. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders. For more information about Whale, visit: (www.whalecommunications.com).
SC Magazine Global Awards 2004
With over 900 nominations in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 and over 300 individual companies participating, this is the world's leading awards program for the information security industry (http://www.scmagazine.com). Recognizing achievement and technical excellence across 32 different product and service categories, the SC Awards is a truly global program with participation from developers and users around the world. Finalists were published globally on March 19th and the winners in all categories will be announced at the SC Awards Gala dinner to be held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on Tuesday 27th April. For more information contact Chris Thomas, global Publisher of SC Magazine at: (cthomas@westcoast.com).