Ositis Software, Inc., a leading developer of security appliances and secure Internet sharing solutions for small to large-sized organizations, today introduced the AVStripper z2000. The z2000 is the latest addition to the eShield platform of network security applications.

Built on a hardened Linux appliance, MailGate installs in minutes, and is capable of processing close to two million messages an hour. Its intuitive administrative controls and centralized management capabilities make it the right choice for mid-sized, as well as large, geographically dispersed organizations.

A new version of the firmware was released yesterday for all the vendor's FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls. FortiOS 2.5 adds intrusion prevention features, as well as a range of enhancements to the firewall, VPN, anti-virus, intrusion detection and content filtering capabilities of the product line.

If e-mail security is giving you headaches, before you turn to voodoo magic, try one of these hardware appliance solutions.

Trend Micro Network VirusWall is a family of easy-to-deploy outbreak prevention appliances that prevent or contain threats. Network VirusWall protects mission critical devices at network end points, local area networks or branch office networks, and multiple network segments from network worms.

HGiga's ViruSherlock is a powerful anti-virus gateway system to be installed between the firewall and mail server to protect the mail server from virus attacks. All outgoing mails are to be filtered by ViruSherlock real-time before being delivered to the internal mail server or to the Internet directly. ViruSherlock is a virus scanner and spam filter.

Developed by gateway AV pioneers, CP Secure's award-winning Content Security Gateway (CSG) appliances protect against the latest malware threats faced by IT professionals and their enterprise-class organizations.

E-mail cannot be protected with typical network security solution because it bypasses the firewall; thus, protecting e-mail traffic requires a purpose-built product designed specifically to combat messaging threats. For this reason, CipherTrust's IronMail is deployed at the gateway to protect your enterprise before threatening e-mail enters-or leaves-your network.

BorderWare Email Security Gateway is an email security, privacy and compliance solution that protects against email threats and controls outbound information to protect against malicious attacks and enforce compliance regulations.

Fortinet's award-winning FortiGateTM series of ASIC-accelerated multi-threat security systems are the new generation of real time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and Web traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate Web content and more in real time - without degrading network performance.