AHMEDABAD, INDIA: Cyberoam, an identity-based unified threat management (UTM) range of appliances from Elitecore Technologies, announced that Frost & Sullivan, a global consulting company, has presented it with the 2008 Asia Pacific Emerging Company of the Year award for network security.

The award recognises Cyberoam UTM’s unique identity-based security solution.

Arun Chandrasekaran, industry manager, Frost & Sullivan, said: “One of the biggest strengths behind the success of Cyberoam is its innovative - identity-based integrated security appliances. Cyberoam has effectively used its sales and marketing resources, as well as technical superiority to gain a firm foothold in the market. Its products have found wide acceptance among businesses across various geographies, within a short span of time.”

Harish Chib, vice-president – new business development – Cyberoam, said: “This award is recognition of our ongoing commitment to meeting our customer needs by providing them with the best products and services that provide security against evolving threats.”

Cyberoam identity-based UTM appliances provide a complete range of security features like stateful inspection Firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-spyware, gateway anti-spam, intrusion prevention system, URL/web content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform.