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Ironport Systems

Shearwater Solutions is a top tier partner of Ironport Systems. This places Shearwater at the top reseller level for Ironport Systems partner program for Australia and demonstrates Shearwater’s technical level and commitment to the IronPort Systems.

Recently a large state government organisation was having Spam and Virus issues. Shearwater working with the organisation installed an Ironport solution comprising of Ironport Antispam, Sophos Antivirus and Virus outbreak filter (VOF). The results exceeded expectation with 80% of all messages stopped by Ironport’s reputation filters and a further 15% detected as SPAM or Viruses. With approximately 26 Million messages a month being processed by Ironport appliances this amounts to a significant savings for the organisation.

About IronPort Systems

IronPort System, Inc., headquartered in San Bruno, California, is the leading Internet gateway security provider for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. The company has developed a family of security gateway appliances, including the IronPort C-Series email security appliances, and the IronPort S-Series Web security appliances. All IronPort® application-specific appliances offer breakthrough performance, and utilize SenderBase®, the world's largest email and Web threat detection network and database. IronPort provides high-performance, easy-to-use and technically innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing and protecting their mission-critical networks from Internet threats. To learn more about IronPort products and services, please visit: http://www.ironport.com/

PatchLink

PatchLink has awarded Shearwater Solutions Gold status. Under Patchlink’s partner program partners are organised into silver, gold and platinum levels. Shearwater and Patchlink share a common philosophy and Shearwater’s expertise in the security area ensures that client implementations meet and exceed requirements

About Patchlink Corporation

PatchLink® is the global leader for security patch and vulnerability management solutions, delivering comprehensive, multi-platform assessment and remediation for continuous protection across the enterprise. Offering the most comprehensive platform and application support, PatchLink maintains the largest tested and most up-to-date security patch repository, enabling organizations to accurately assess and remediate vulnerabilities based on established industry best practices. Currently protecting thousands of commercial and government organizations and millions of PCs and servers worldwide, PatchLink effectively eliminates vulnerability risks and enforces security and compliance policies while reducing overall IT costs.

 

 

 

 

 

Juniper Networks

Shearwater Solution has received the award for J Partner of the year from Juniper Networks (Juniper) for 2006 for Australia/ New Zealand. The award was received at Juniper’s annual partner conference for the Asia Pacific region held in Thailand and recognises Shearwaters expertise and experience with the Juniper’s product range and the commitment to Juniper’s reseller program.

Shearwater has developed expertise in Juniper’s security solutions bringing network and application level protection to high performance networks. In addition Shearwater has also specialised in the Application Acceleration area which provides Data centre and WAN optimisation solutions for remote, branch office and mobile users with fast, secure and assured access to centralised web based and client server applications

Forum Systems

Forum Systems and Shearwater Solutions Sign a distribution Agreement to Offer XML and Web Services Security Solutions in Asia Pacific Market and to meet expanding Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) demand in Australia and New Zealand

Forum Systems' solutions are known for their ability to integrate with disparate IT systems and applications, enabling customers to leverage existing infrastructure and make SOA implementations more cost effective. Shearwater will offer the award-winning Forum XWall Web Services Firewall and Forum Sentry SOA Gateway as well as the Forum VulCon Vulnerability Containment Service.

Forum Systems is the leader in SOA and Web Services security solutions with the longest production experience in both government and commercial sectors. (see XML security for more details)

Microsoft Corporation

Shearwater Solution has joined theMicrosoft Security Software Advisor (SSA) Program. Before acceptance into the program Shearwater has had to meet a number of preselection criteria. This recognised Shearwater’s capabilities in the IT Security area and the organisations ability to advise clients and deploy Microsoft security products.