SC Magazine Awards 2007 Europe choosed the Adventail's EX family of SSL VPN appliances as the winner in the category of "Best Remote Access". Adventail is a company that offers secure remote access solutions. Now in its 11th year, the SC Magazine Awards highlight and showcase the best solutions, services and professionals in the information security industry. These awards recognize achievement and technical excellence and are a truly global program with participation from developers and users around the world.

    Sarah Daniels, vice president of marketing for Aventail, stated: "We are thrilled to receive this coveted award. This award demonstrates Aventail's continued global leadership in the Remote Access category. Around the globe, enterprises are relying on Aventail's award-winning products to provide easy-to-use, secure, anywhere access to employees and business partners."

    All Aventail SSL VPN solutions are based on the enhanced Aventail ST2+ platform, which brings features and functionality in three key areas: detecting the security of the end point, protecting applications through granular access controls, and connecting users securely to applications. Every day many end users depend on Aventail's proven solutions for cost-effective access to Web and client/server applications from remote locations and devices. Winners of this prise were announced on April 24, 2007 at the European awards ceremony in London.

    The company delivered the first SSL VPN solution in 1997 and today is a market leader, offering a remote access control solution that is the easiest to use and easiest to control. Aventail SSL VPN appliances give users with transparent, clientless access to more applications from more devices via any network environment. For network managers, Aventail offers a single secure access gateway for all users, internal and external, to all network resources with complete safety. With more than 2.5 million end users around the globe, Aventail is the SSL VPN of choice among mid-sized to large-sized organizations worldwide, including James Richardson International, Chicago Housing Authority, DePaul University, DuPont, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), IBM Global Services, Mississippi Department of Corrections, AT&T, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Overlake Hospital, Radiology Ltd., and Sanyo. For more information, go to www.aventail.com.

    This year's categories include 10 important areas for strategic applications of security. Whether finalist, winner, or Merit Award recipient, each of these exceptional applications shows a great deal about where Security is succeeding in meeting the challenges in todays business environment. More information and the detailed list of categories and winners can be found at http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/awards/.