Cymphonix Closes the Gateway on Anonymous Proxies

Cymphonix Closes the Gateway on Anonymous Proxies

Spotlights a Year of Growth and Momentum

 Salt Lake City, Feb. 2, 2009 - Cymphonix® today announced advanced features for anonymous proxy protection and application control for its award-winning Network Composer® appliance series, while also highlighting corporate momentum as the company completes its sixth quarter of consecutive growth.

"The amount of streaming media, recreational content and anonymous proxies available on the Internet is exploding exponentially, leading administrators to walk a tightrope between a completely locked-down network and one where students' access to sites such as Facebook and YouTube steals bandwidth from educational Internet resources," said Brent Nixon, president of Cymphonix Corporation. "With Network Composer, schools are reinventing their relationship with the Internet by allowing them to maximize the security, value and productivity of Internet access in the classroom."

Bandwidth and network access management are essential in today's Internet-interactive educational environments, but traditional secure Web gateway products lack the necessary dynamic resources to scan network traffic, identify critical online content and potential threats and control improper usage. Cymphonix Network Composer is a precise network gateway appliance that reveals, optimizes and protects both incoming and outgoing Internet traffic-effectively identifying and prioritizing mission-critical Web-based traffic and Internet applications.

The patent-pending Cymphonix Anonymous ProxyGuard^TM, a dynamic, real-time filter avoidance system, uncovers anonymous proxies and filter avoidance techniques regardless of the port or protocol being used. In addition, the Network Composer receives hourly updates, keeping pace with rapidly changing anonymous proxy and filter avoidance sites. Schools and universities can rely on Network Composer's assistance in assuring compliance with CIPA and other regulations to control peer-to-peer file sharing. The result is a solution that accurately reveals important information on network usage, intelligently optimizes bandwidth and application management, and provides advanced protection from inappropriate content-providing a safe, productive environment for administrators, teachers and students alike.

"We knew that students were bypassing our filter and accessing blocked sites like MySpace and YouTube through the use of anonymous proxies, but unfortunately we couldn't specifically prove who was doing it or which sites they were accessing," said Shari Bailey, director of technology for the Garfield Heights City School District. "The Cymphonix Network Composer solution became the eyes of our network. We simply didn't have time to manually monitor all user activity and maintain blacklists on a daily basis. Now when our network slows down, I can quickly pull up the Cymphonix dashboard to determine what has been downloaded or uploaded and discipline users if necessary. I never would have had information like this with my previous solution!"

The company is also highlighting its momentum, which includes six quarters of consecutive growth and shows an 80 percent year-over-year growth rate for 2008. With thousands of customers spread over four continents, Cymphonix's industry-leading secure Web gateway appliances protect content for a broad customer base in the education, hospitality, healthcare, local government, manufacturing, professional services and managed service provider industries. Additionally, Cymphonix partners with more than 500 worldwide channel resellers, including many VAR 500 companies. Winning four XChange Excellence Awards and earning recognition within Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway in 2008, Cymphonix solutions have been acknowledged by analysts and industry experts as top performers in a competitive market.