S-Core™ CERTIFIED SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM

S-Core™ is the certified secure and high-performance operating system on which all BorderWare products, including BorderWare Security Platform and BorderWare SteelGate are based.

S-Core was initially released as a specialized and hardened operating system designed to provide a secure environment for network and internet based applications. Since its introduction, there have been no known breaches or successful attacks on applications running S-Core. With tens of thousands of applications running on S-Core globally, not a single one has been the subject of a successful network- or operating system-level attack.

Evidencing the secure nature of S-Core, BorderWare products have been tested and selected by NATO, the US Department of Defense and the US Department of Homeland Security due to its particularly high-level of security. S-Core has also been independently evaluated by many secure organizations and has been proven to defend against denial of service (DoS) attacks, buffer overflow attacks, directory harvest attacks (DHA), foot printing attacks and over 250 types of malformed message attacks. While many hackers and other cybercriminals have attempted to launch such attacks on BorderWare customers, not a single customer has ever reported that their systems were compromised. This pedigree of certified security is why S-Core based products from BorderWare have been running in many military and sensitive government installations for over a decade. With this security pedigree, any product running on S-Core can be confidently deployed at the network perimeter beside, not behind, your firewall.

Because S-Core was initially designed to facilitate secure Internet applications, the architecture was also designed with performance in mind. In addition to successfully resisting network- and operating system-level attacks, the S-Core architecture is designed to allow BorderWare Security Platform and BorderWare SteelGate applications to continue to function under normal parameters during attacks. The S-Core architecture is also the reason behind the high-performance of the BorderWare systems. S-Core is designed to take full advantage of the underlying hardware and use the resources to their fullest potential. It is also optimized to eliminate many of the typical bottlenecks associated with other messaging security devices on the market today. For this reason, the BorderWare Security Platform consistently outperforms all other offerings in field trials when running real world message traffic.

S-Core also provides the architectural infrastructure for the on-demand zero-admin clustering that delivers unparalleled capacity and performance, creating a large virtual machine that can handle the messaging load of the most demanding organizations, without losing a single message. Since its efficiency and security does not compromise message integrity, S-Core provides the infrastructure that ensures message integrity through queue replication so that messages are never lost even in the event of a system outage.

No other commercial Email and Web security product is based on a high-performance operating system that delivers the EAL4+ lineage of security, than that of S-Core.