SOLUTION EXPANDS URL FILTERING COVERAGE FOR MOBILE WEB BROWSERS TO MEET MOBILE HARDENED BROWSER REQUIREMENTS

San Mateo, CA. – February 25, 2014– NetSTAR, Inc., an ALPS System Integration Company (ALSI) group company and a global leader in secure web categorization and content filtering technology, today announced at both Mobile World Congress (Barcelona, Spain) and RSA Conference (San Francisco, CA) that NetSTAR has expanded URL filtering coverage specifically for hardened browsers used in mobile devices and environments.

“We are very excited about today’s announcement;” said Akira Nakayama, Vice President, NetSTAR Global Business Group. “Our expanded coverage for hardening mobile browsers and apps, enabling a product designer to easily address security capabilities that are unique to mobile users, mobile devices, and mobile platforms.”

A hardened mobile browser or mobile app incorporating inCompass technology that delivers the only OEM URL Cloud firewall security solution that incorporates web/URL categorization, the ability to dynamically handle and block the proliferation of mobile malware, spam, phishing, and proxy sites, and protect users behind a mobile URL firewall that is easily incorporated in any hardened browser or quickly enhances a mobile data platform.

“Integration with inCompass is designed to be quickly and easily deployed in a wide range of OEM environments,” said Akira Nakayama, “including SaaS offerings, security products, and family-oriented security solutions, mobile service providers, UTM and other gateway appliances, end-point security products, MSSPs, and other applications.” Both a local SDK version and a Cloud-based offering are available to meet the exact needs of NetSTAR’s partners.