TechGuard Named a Finalist in the Government Security News Homeland Security Awards Competition

Government-Proven Provider of Network Protection Technologies Selected as a Finalist in the Best Network Security/Enterprise Firewall Solution Category

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- TechGuard Security, a provider of proven technologies and services that protect critical networks from cyber attack, today announced that it has been named a finalist in the Government Security News (GSN) First Annual Homeland Security Awards competition. TechGuard was selected in the Best Network Security/ Enterprise Firewall Solution category.

All Homeland Security Awards winners will be announced - and celebrated - at a gala dinner hosted by GSN at the Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan in New York, on the evening of Tuesday, October 27, 2009.

The finalists and winners were selected by a panel of objective and independent judges. According to GSN's editor-in-chief, Jacob Goodwin, who oversaw the evaluation process, "All finalists should be very proud of their selection," said Goodwin.

"We received an extraordinary number of entries," said Adrian Courtenay, a managing director of World Business Media, LLC, the owner of GSN: Government Security News. "We have carefully reviewed each entry and are now very pleased to announce an exceptionally strong field of finalists."

TechGuard provides trusted cyber security solutions for the enterprise, government agencies, SMB's and consumers. TechGuard's PoliWall is a high-performance security appliance developed to counter global network threats. The product offers simplified traffic management and configuration with its proprietary High-speed Internet Protocol Packet Inspection Engine (HIPPIE) to provide country code and IP range filtering technology. PoliWall provides granular, IP-based access control by rapidly filtering millions of global addresses with exceptions down to a single address. It is also designed for network and datacenter operations to auto-adjust bandwidth allocation based on network loads.

"With unrivaled capabilities to filter traffic from certain countries, subnets or ranges of IP addresses, the PoliWall is an immediate and effective way to protect networks from cyber attack," said Suzanne Magee, CEO at TechGuard Security. "We are very pleased to receive this recognition from a respected industry publication such as GSN. This award reaffirms our commitment to leading the market in the development of innovative solutions to protect networks from unnecessary and hostile Internet traffic."

About TechGuard

TechGuard Security, founded in February 2000 in direct response to Presidential Decision Directive 63, provides trusted and innovative Critical Infrastructure Protection; and Cyber Defense/Offense solutions to the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, federal agencies, and financial and healthcare clients. TechGuardians® research, develop, and rapidly prototype, cutting-edge security technologies, including the patent-pending PoliWall® with HIPPIE® security appliance; and provide expert consulting services to address network security concerns created by e-commerce initiatives, global Internet connections and cyber terrorism. TechGuard is a women-owned, SBA 8(a), small business enterprise. For additional information please visit http://www.techguard.com.

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