Aspire.net"DeepNines' position outside the firewall is vital. If you put something behind the firewall, you run the risk that your network may get saturated or compromised. The DeepNines Security Edge Platform is our first line of defense."
- Sam Collier, cofounder and chief technology officer (CTO) at Union Square Technology Group LLC and Aspire.net
Celerity "We looked at several solutions that sat behind the router and decided they could not serve as our primary perimeter defense system. The recent IPv4 exploit has validated our decision to deploy DeepNines."
- Tony La Rosa, vice president of information technology at Celerity
Hamline University We needed a security system that would protect us without a lot of human intervention. Before the Security Edge Platform, we had plenty of problems. DeepNines was excellent at helping us test and deploy the system. The appliance has been working without issues since we implemented it. We are very happy with our purchase."
- Anthony Schroeder, director of network services at Hamline University
Highland Park Independent School District "Our existing network investments were actually complemented by the DeepNines SEP. The reduction in the amount of unwanted traffic eased the burden on the Internet connection and on networking devices such as routers and switches. DeepNines also eliminated the use of web proxies that were being use by many students to get around existing security devices."
- Ron Smith, administrator of technical services at Highland Park Independent School District
Kaspersky Labs "DeepNines' impressive list of customers coupled with leadership in the UTM space clearly demonstrates that their value proposition is resonating in the marketplace, DeepNines is an ideal match for Kaspersky technology. The combination of Kaspersky Lab's industry-leading anti-virus and anti-spyware software with DeepNines' SEP solution provides networks with an integrated defense against malicious attacks on any application and any host."
- Vitaly Bezrodnykh, business development director at Kaspersky Lab
Northrop Grumman "We encourage our customers to take a layered approach to their network security, the recent vulnerability that can impact network routers reinforces our belief in perimeter security."
- Jonathan Smith, civilian director, computer systems, Northrop Grumman Information Technology
PC Magazine "iTrust, has the intuition to block access to both known and unknown malicious online content and web proxies. Despite the presence of URL filters, school administrators have found students use Web proxies to make an indirect connection to the Internet through an outside proxy server."
- Brian Prince, editor at PC World.
Sun Microsystems "DeepNines provides customers with a proactive, intelligent, intrusion prevention and anti-virus solution that stops complex, blended threats, with Sleuth9 on Solaris/SPARC and Solaris x86, large and small companies can be confident they have a robust solution for network security."
- Manish Bhuptani, director of network services, marketing department at Sun Mircosystems
Supreme Roofing "We needed a simple comprehensive security solution that would protect our network and not overload our IT department. We looked at several solutions and found DeepNines to be the most feature rich but simple solution to deploy and a reasonable cost."
- Jeff Sterrett, chief financial officer (CFO) at Supreme Roofing
SurfControl "We are excited to be integrating our URL Filtering and Internet Threat Database into DeepNines' revolutionary appliance, This integrated solution will allow DeepNines to provide extensive coverage of the most widely accessed and highest risk sites on the Internet, as well as monitor emerging threats 24x7."
- John Cheney, executive vice president of global marketing at SurfControl.
T.H.E. Journal"Based on DeepNines' Security Edge Platform and SurfControl's URL filtering technologies, the new system, "Security Edge Platform iTrust, is an "intelligent" filter designed to block both known and unknown content that may be inappropriate for access by students from within schools."
- Dave Nagel, executive editor at T.H.E. Journal
University of Georgia "The university expects the DeepNines Security Edge Platform will save 20 percent of a security analysts time for a total of 40 full-time employee hours each week, allowing our anti-virus and IDS employees to do other tasks, In addition the university expects to receive 25-35 fewer calls to its help desk each week, improving productivity and allowing help desk staff to perform other duties"
- Stan Gatewood, chief information security officer (CISO) at the University of Georgia
University System of Georgia Peachnet "New viruses like MyDoom and Mimail often attempt to send email messages using a built Žin SMTP engine. These tactics bypass the normal SMTP host and any anti-Žvirus that it has, scanning or blocking SMTP traffic at the perimeter may be the only way to prevent this kind of malicious traffic from leaving your network."
- Buz Dale, information security specialist for the University System of Georgia
