VirusBuster's partnerships
It's not well known in common that VirusBuster Ltd. cooperates actively with several Hungarian and international firms for many years. These partnerships began in 2000 when - with the expansion of the internet - the market needed multiple layers of security. At that time, the users wanted protection mainly for their Exchange and Novell servers and messaging systems. VirusBuster had its own security solution for Novell, and integrated Sybari's market-leading Antigen product for the protection of Exchange.
The next important step in partnerships was the release of VirusBuster Enterprise Firewall which integrated another Hungarian technology, that was Balabit's Zorp firewall. This was the beginning of strategic cooperations: internationally with HP, Sun, Sybari, and with Balabit in Hungary.
2001 was a landmark year in the history of VirusBuster Ltd, since that was the beginning of the first partnership, in which the first non-Hungarian security vendor integrated the VirusBuster Anti-virus Scan Engine into its own product. In the next years, between 2003 and 2006 VirusBuster introduced its brand name to the international market while actively marketed the Antigen product portfolio in the East European area.
After a market research, and patenting the brand name began a new kind of disposal: the core of VirusBuster's anti-malware system, the Anti-virus Engine itself, became an independent product, and in several cooperations it was integrated into different products - into the solutions of Sybari and Zondex, and into Agnitum's Outpost Firewall. While the partnership broadened with these firms, new cooperations had begun with Microsoft, Commtouch and the Australian PC-Tools (VB Engine integration). It was then when two important developments occured on the international market: after a successful code audit Microsoft integrated the VirusBuster Engine into its Forefront business security system's Exchange and SharePoint protection, and the VirusBuster entered the US market under the name "Vexira".
During the years VirusBuster formed many partnerships.
Among the strategic partners were Commtouch (spam-filter), the Hungarian Balabit (firewall), and the Sybari until its acquisition by Microsoft in 2005. (Up to that time VirusBuster was Sybari's exclusive East European distributor).
These are the most important cooperations in international development projects:
- Microsoft Certified Partner
- HP Development Partner
- SUN Developer Partner
- Novell Magyarország Silver Partner.
Beside the partnerships mentioned above several security vendors integrated VirusBuster's Anti-virus Engine into its own products, including:
- Agnitum (Outpost Pro Security suite)
- Australian Project (ZondexGuard Desktop anti-virus protection)
- Balabit (Zorp Virus filtering in Application Layer Firewall)
- Central Command (Vexira Full VirusBuster product line rebrand)
- Kaspersky Lab (Kaspersky Hosted E-mail Security)
- Leprechaun (VirusBUSTER II Desktop antivirus protection)
- Microsoft (Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint)
- OPSWAT (Metascan)
- PCTOOLS (PCTools Antivirus)
- Proteatools (Protea AntiVirus Tools for Lotus Domino)
- Vida (Online WEB based scanner).
The VirusBuster Anti-virus Engine is obviously an attractive technology for the partners. The first reason is that the engine virtually supports all important operating systems and business environments. The next fact is that the engine can be integrated very easily and quickly into existing security solutions because of its well designed software development kit, and its stability and reliability is proved in practice.
Last, but not least there's the engine's effectiveness witnessed by important industrial certificates:
Virus Bulletin 100% Award - The test of the British organization are widely recognized within the industry. The tests tend to focus on virus detection rates and scanning speed, as well as looking at how each product fares when scanning a set of files that are known to be clean. Since 2001 VirusBuster Ltd. acquired more than 20 VB100% certifications for its different products.
Checkmark Anti-Virus - The portfolio of West Coast Labs for anti-viral product testing, validation and certification services to satisfy the needs of security technology developers worldwide for independent validation of functionality, performance and effectiveness to international standards. Since 2001 the VirusBuster successfully qualified by Checkmark in every year.
ICSA - ICSA Labs Certification criteria are public, objective, fair, credible criteria that yield a pass-fail result. To remain consistently results-oriented, certification criteria is based on resistance to threats and risks or on successful outcome, and not based on fundamental design or engineering principles or on an assessment of underlying technology. The VirusBuster Professional earlier, in two consecutive years acquired the "Desktop/Server AV Detection" certification, and in 2007 qualified for "Desktop/Server AV Cleaning".
CheckVir - Independent Hungarian test lab to determine the effectiveness of anti-viral products. The VirusBuster Professional and the VirusBuster for Windows Servers many times fulfilled CheckVir's monthly tests' criteria successfully.
OESISOK - The certification program of OPSWAT certification program verifies that security application will operate with network connectivity devices. The OESISOK logo proves that a security application interoperates with products from market-leading technology vendors, like Cisco, Juniper, NORTEL, 3Com, F5. Security applications without the OESISOK logo may not be detected by the network devices of these vendors. The OESISOK certification means that VirusBuster officially can be used in NAC, NAP and TNC solutions. These technologies protect the security of networks from the potential threats of newly connected IT-devices.
(The abbreviations consecutively mean: Network Access Control technology of Cisco, Microsoft's Network Access Protection system, and Trusted Network Connect network protection method introduced by Trusted Computing Group)
