Secure Computing an enterprise gateway security company, announced that its Secure Web (formerly Webwasher) has been positioned as a ‘Top Player’ in The Radicati Group's new market brief, ‘Corporate Web Security’- Market Quadrant 2008. Published in June 2008, the brief evaluates nine vendors and focuses only on the Corporate Web Security segment of the Security Market, which according to the report, is expected to grow in value from USD 531 million in 2008 to USD1.1 billion by 2012.  The full market brief is available for review at www.securecomputing.com.

Positioned as a 'Top Player' in the Radicati Market Quadrant, the market brief recognizes the company's Secure Web as a market-leading appliance with proxy caching, which ensures high performance and minimal effects on the network.  It also highlights Secure Computing as one of the few companies that recognizes the unique threat that Web 2.0 sites can pose to customers, noting that the company's enhanced reputation and intent analysis puts it ahead of many competing solutions in the Web security market.  In addition, the brief underscores that Secure Computing products are backed by the company's powerful, proven TrustedSource reputation system. 

"We are honored that the Radicati Group has recognized Secure Computing's Secure Web as a leader in the Web security market segment. Our leadership position in the fast-growing Web security market segment reinforces our commitment to offering comprehensive protection to companies deploying Web 2.0 technologies," said Ken Rutsky, Vice President of Product Marketing at Secure Computing.

The company’s Secure Web is the industry's first and only reputation-based Web gateway security solution that protects enterprises from spyware, phishing, malware, data leakage and Internet misuse, while ensuring policy enforcement, regulatory compliance and a productive application environment. The solution employs the most sophisticated behavioral- and signature-based techniques for stopping malware, as well as patented content analysis software for stopping data leakage. It takes a new and radically different approach to Internet Security, employing the company's global reputation-based system and methodology, TrustedSource. This assigns a reputation to message senders and Web URLs, domains and IP addresses in real-time, providing highly proactive, immediate protection.

Radicati Market Quadrants rank vendors based on a four quadrant system, which includes ‘Mature Players’, ‘Specialists’, ‘Trail Blazers’, and ‘Top Players’ quadrants. The ‘Top Players’ quadrant is the most coveted position in the report and describes the current market leaders. Leading players in each market segment are ranked based on the features and functionality of their solution and their market share in that segment.  The report provide a comparative viewpoint of the market and an analysis of each vendor included in the study, including both strengths and weaknesses.

The company's solutions have earned several prestigious industry awards and been recognized for excellence in their respective security areas.