Entensys and Avira announce their technical partnership

Entensys and Avira announced a new technical partnership. This partnership allows the developers of both corporations to unite their efforts and work on an additional SAVAPI-based antivirus protection. This new option will be available for users of UserGate Mail Server and UserGate Proxy&Firewall.

Integrated into Entensys solutions, these mechanisms of antivirus protection will provide malware scanning of traffic at the server level, thereby providing significantly improved and more reliable security for organizations. The modules will support various protocols, including those for email.

The Avira module will be available as an option* for UserGate Mail Server, corporate email service, and UserGate Proxy&Firewall, UTM solution. Solutions by Kaspersky Lab and Panda Security have already been integrated into Entensys products before.

“Avira is a highly experienced vendor of solutions for home and business use,” says Dmitry Kurashev, CEO of Entensys Corporation. “Solutions by this vendor are incredibly popular all over the world.  This popularity proves the quality of Avira products. The integration of a SAVAPI-based antivirus mechanism into Entensys solutions is driven by our aspiration to provide users with new and enhanced protection.”

*The module can be activated via the administrator console and requires a special PIN code.

About Avira

More than 100 million consumers and small businesses depend upon Avira’s security expertise and award-winning antivirus software, making the company the number-two market share leader globally. Avira is ranked #1 in technology innovation according to ABI Research; recommended by Consumer Reports for its free antivirus software; cited by OPSWAT as the #1 fastest-growing antivirus vendor in 2012 and the #2 largest vendor worldwide in 2011; and has received a nearly unbroken string of Virus Bulletin VB100 awards for the last decade.

Avira provides IT-security protection to computers, smartphones, servers and networks, delivered as both software and cloud-based services.

About Entensys

Entensys is an international Internet security software vendor with a focus on web content and e-mail.

Entensys products allow customers to quickly and easily implement an acceptable usage policy for Internet access, helping them to improve productivity, increase security, comply with regulations and reduce administrative burden. The company technologies allow to analyze, categorize and filter web pages in real time with multi-tiered filtering algorithms.

Entensys solutions are used by 40,000 organizations, educational institutions and telecom companies all over the world.