Kaspersky Lab’s Technologies to Protect the New Generation of ZyXEL’s UTM Firewalls

Woburn, MA – September 23, 2014 –Kaspersky Lab and ZyXel Communications today announced that ZyXEL’s newly introduced line of next-generation UTM firewalls integrates Kaspersky Lab’s breakthrough anti-malware technologies. The companies’ long-term cooperation and ultimate integration present comprehensive real-time protection against malware threats for business networks.

ZyXEL is a global leader in broadband networking technology, providing a wide portfolio of wired and wireless network solutions for customers ranging from telecommunications service providers to small- and medium-sized businesses and home users.

ZyXEL’s USG series is arranged into three categories:

• Extreme (USG1100 and USG1900), which  provides high availability, robust service and simplified management for medium to large businesses;
• Advanced (USG 110, USG210, and USG310), which offers specific features to provide secure and always-online network protection for small-to-medium-sized businesses;
• Performance (USG40, USG40W, USG60, and USG60W) that offers truly integrated security for remote offices, retail locations and small businesses.

All the USG lines are equipped with Kaspersky SafeStream II technology, which enables system administrators to achieve the best level of security within their networks without hampering performance and quality of service.

By taking full advantage of Kaspersky Lab’s cloud-enabled security intelligence, SafeStream II can filter the most dangerous and widespread malware from network traffic at wire speed. Among the threats successfully blocked by ZyXEL’s gateways empowered by Kaspersky SafeStream II are viruses, worms, Trojans, zero-day exploits, malicious web-sites and harmful HTML scripts, and malicious mobile applications.

To read more about Kaspersky Safe Stream II technology, please click here.

To learn more about ZyXEL USG Series, please click here.

Quotes:
Nikita Shvetsov, Acting Chief Technology Officer
Kaspersky Lab
“In today’s information-intense digital environment there’s always a huge amount of network traffic that has to be handled efficiently, precisely and safely. Our technology solution, integrated into the hardware of ZyXEL’s gateways along with constantly updated signature databases, allows us to filter the majority of malicious objects from network traffic with sufficient speed and precision to ensure peace of mind for network users and administrators.”

Wayne Hwang, AVP of Gateway Strategic BU
ZyXel
“Kaspersky Lab is a reliable long-term partner whose advanced technologies provide complete anti-malware protection in our USG series. Powered by SafeStream II, the ZyXEL USG series offers strong protection at the gateway level, preventing security threats caused by careless out-of-date endpoints or new devices that lack protection software. ZyXEL will continue to closely integrate Kaspersky Lab’s new technologies into our security appliances, facilitating robust, up-to-date protection for our customers’ business networks.”

About Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 17-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 300 million users worldwide. Learn more atwww.kaspersky.com.

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781.503.5211
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About ZyXEL Communications Corp.
Founded in 1989 and celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, ZyXEL Communications Corp. is a world-class networking company providing innovative and reliable Internet solutions. As one of the early modem manufacturers, ZyXEL has gone through transformations in the fast-paced networking industry. Today, ZyXEL is one of the few companies in the world capable of offering complete networking solutions for Telcos, small to medium-sized businesses, and digital home users for a wide range of deployment scenarios. Telco solutions include Central Office Equipment, Customer Premise Equipment, Wired and Wireless Access Network Devices, and Carrier Switches. SMB and Enterprise solutions include Unified Security Gateways, LAN Switches, WLAN, and IP Telephony. Digital Home solutions include Network Connectivity Devices and Multimedia Solutions.

* The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in the IDC report "Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014–2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares (IDC #250210, August 2014). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013.