RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc. (www.bytware.com), a global authority on viruses and security, announced today the availability of StandGuard Anti-Virus for AIX running on IBM pSeries servers.
This new solution joins StandGuard Anti-Virus for iSeries and StandGuard Anti-Virus for Linux as the third member of Bytware’s family of virus protection solutions, and is the latest member of Bytware’s growing StandGuard Security Suite that also includes intrusion prevention, access controls and authorities, user monitoring, vulnerability and threat mitigation, monitoring and notification, auditing, and recovery.

Like all platforms, AIX is susceptible to hosting and spreading viruses. Recommended guidelines in regulations such as SOX and FISMA (Federal Information Security Act of 2002) for anti-virus prevention strongly recommend that organizations deploy anti-virus software on all systems for which satisfactory solutions are available. Bytware is joining the many government and non-government agencies who are working together to educate organizations of the importance of deploying anti-virus software on all systems within their IT infrastructure and organization. This new solution gives users the tools to detect, contain, and eradicate threats originating on AIX servers. Identifying host servers infected by malicious code is vital to containing malware incidents. StandGuard Anti-Virus for AIX includes the features, power, and ease-of-use that users have come to expect from StandGuard Anti-Virus, which was named the 2003 Search400 Security Product of the Year (iSeries version). StandGuard Anti-Virus for AIX incorporates the latest McAfee scanning engine, making this a mature product backed by battle-tested technology, advanced heuristic analysis, and generic detection & cleaning.

StandGuard Anti-Virus for AIX is available now. Price quotes are available upon request. For more information please call 775.851.2900 or visit bytware.com.
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