Oct. 26, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ProSecure(TM), the specialist network security brand by NETGEAR®, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the superior position of their products in the preliminary findings of an in-depth, independent industry assessment of spam filtering products conducted by Miercom. The ProSecure(TM) STM family of Web/Email Threat Management Appliances for medium-sized businesses proved in testing to stop over 50 percent more threats than competitive products tested. Testing focused on the ability of the solution to stop a variety of threats, including spam, email threats, URL filtering, and Miercom's Offensive Security Testing Suite. Preliminary testing is complete considering products from Cisco, NETGEAR and Barracuda Networks. Complete test findings for all products submitted for testing will publish on the Miercom website, http://www.miercom.com, in November 2009.

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"This Spam Filtering Industry Assessment allows each vendor to submit best-of-breed products to compete in this independent test review. The test results provide customers with honest, objective and meaningful data by way of a competitive comparison matrix. We are impressed with the NETGEAR ProSecure product and its ability to thwart over 50 percent more threats than products tested to date. This superior security effectiveness score is a testament to the relative security the appliance provides compared to products from well established security vendors," said Robert Smithers, CEO of Miercom.

The preliminary findings by Miercom compared the ProSecure STM600 against the Cisco Spam & Virus Blocker, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, and the Barracuda Web Filter, and reveal that:

--  Miercom's Security Testing Suite, which measured Barracuda and ProSecure
resistance against viruses, worms, trojans, vulnerability exploits and
malware attacks over web protocols, showed ProSecure STM to outperform
Barracuda in the assessment by a margin of at least 50 percent.
--  Miercom's Email Threat Test, which measured Barracuda and ProSecure
resistance against email threats, showed ProSecure STM successfully
thwarted 99.4 percent of threats over email, including threats in the
wild, outperforming Barracuda by a margin of 20 percent.

--  Miercom's Anti-Spam Test, which measured Barracuda, Cisco, and ProSecure
in resistance to spam, showed ProSecure to stop 99.8 percent of all
spam, which was on par with both Cisco and Barracuda.

Detailed results of the Miercom testing are forthcoming in November 2009 and will be published on the Miercom website at http://www.miercom.com.

ProSecure customers fully appreciate the effectiveness with which STM appliances stop threats. "Implementing the ProSecure STM security appliance at the network's gateway has allowed us to establish a multi-layered IT security model.