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New Archive Attender V 2.5 offers choice of User Retrieval from Archive; Best Practices White Paper for Proactively Monitoring the Blackberry Network; 87% of Businesses in the US are in Active Litigation. Are you prepared?; MIMEsweeper Managed Service Now Available

February 2006

In This Issue:

New Archive Attender V 2.5 offers choice of User Retrieval from Archive

Best Practices White Paper for Proactively Monitoring the Blackberry Network

87% of Businesses in the US are in Active Litigation. Are you prepared?

MIMEsweeper Managed Service Now Available 

PREVIOUS ISSUES

January: Email Classification enables broader control of email & documents to meet evolving pressures;
ReSoft refreshes its Email Archive Evaluation Checklist;
Fundamental shift in email stealth attacks on corporate networks fuels the need for better email-perimeter protection; TOPPER email monitoring tool improves SLA reporting with SQL add-in! 

November: Archive One Policy improves storage & capacity of email archive;   New Mail Attender for Lotus Notes V 6.2C extends & secures Lotus Notes archiving;  PowerControls V4 enhances searching from backup edb files and expanded support for backup solutions; Discovery Attender V6.1C now automatically filters databases using the ACL! 

October: New Ferris Research Report on Techniques for Zero Day Anti-Virus Protection; New Sametime solutions for Chat Archiving, Persistent Team Chat, Queue Management;
Akonix L7 adds Remote IM User Support; 
Discovery Attender V6.1B available for Lotus Notes

September: Mailbox Management/Email Archiving Best Practices for Lotus Notes & Microsoft Exchange; Castcadia adds ListServ capability to Lotus Notes via Subscription Manager; Archive Attender V2.1 improves management of archive Stores & user retrievals; OWA AttachView V7 improves attachment lockdown

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ReSoft releases a paper focusing on the Seven Deadly Sins of Business Email Communication And How You Can Protect Against Them

ReSoft International and LitigationProofing, LLC have today released an important paper on the “Seven Deadly Sins of Electronic Communications and how you can protect against them.”

The omnipotence of e-mail and instant messaging in business has allowed electronic communications to become the most fertile source of litigation expense and difficulty.

The persistence of the electronic record and the routine recovery of electronic communications in connection with almost every business dispute or investigation means that the litigation complications recently faced by investment firms such as Citicorp or Merrill Lynch or pharmaceutical manufacturers such as Merck as a result of problematic e-mails are now becoming commonplace. Sooner or later your firm will face such a problem, and this new paper can help you reduce the risk and minimize the potential damage.

ReSoft International has partnered with LitigationProofing, LLC to publish this paper, which is designed as a primer to enable IT, Legal and Compliance, and Human Resources Departments to develop and deploy appropriate policies and practices and implement useful employee training. The paper is based upon experience gained by LitigationProofing, LLC in years of litigation practice and through educational workshops to its clients. 

More info:

New Archive Attender V2.5 offers choice of user archive retrieval: Message Stub and Archive Folder Hierarchy access.
Archive Attender moves messages and attachments to an external storage device from Microsoft Exchange mailboxes and PST files to effectively answer storage management, regulatory compliance and information security requirements.

Version 2.5 of Archive Attender adds flexibility for users to access their personal archives. In addition to users viewing their complete archive through a web interface within Outlook, the entire email can be removed from the mailbox and replaced by message stubs. With this version, users will have direct access to their archived messages in a virtually seamless way while keeping the folder structure intact to eliminate users from 'message hunting'.

While both access options can be used independently, when stubbing and the web interface are used in conjunction, the user can have their mailbox intact while still having a portal into all of their own archived messages. Within the portal, users can easily search, view, send, forward and restore their archived messages from one location within the mailbox. This gives users more access and control over their archives.

Version 2.5 will also provide further storage management functionality such as the ability to archive attachments only, while keeping the original message intact. Like all aspects of Archive Attender, the new functionality does not require the deployment of a component to the client computer nor any additional hardware.

More info: Archive Attender

Best Practices White Paper for Proactively Monitoring the Blackberry Network
The Blackberry device tends to be used by the most senior people in an organization. As a result, the service-level requirement for system availability tends to be staggeringly high. Native Blackberry tools cannot monitor the components on the network to the level required so we see the NeedTEXT tool as a must-have for the team responsible for the smooth running of the Blackberry network.

NeedTEXT Monitor for BlackBerry Enterprise automatically monitors the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and its interaction with the individual Blackberry Devices. This includes BES performance statistics as well as:

• Email and MDS roundtrip
• Battery level (shuts off @ 15%)
• Wireless signal level
• Last time device made contact with BES (unused?)
• Messages pending & processed (flow monitor/backups)

NeedTEXT continually checks these components of the BlackBerry environment and alerts administrators if a counter goes beyond a pre-set threshold. Multiple BlackBerry Enterprise Servers can be monitored from a single console and the user interface is entirely web-based for seamless access.

A free copy of the paper, "Best Practices for Proactively Monitoring the BlackBerry network." can be requested from www.re-soft.com/bb for a limited time (registration required).

87% of Business in the US are in active litigation. Are you prepared?
According to Fulbright and Jaworski’s annual Litigation Trends Survey, 87 percent of U.S. corporations are in active litigation. The same study found electronic discovery costs average $8 million per year, making those costs the biggest litigation-related financial burden on companies with revenues of more than $100 million annually. These findings demonstrate how increasingly important it is for organizations to gain control of their information assets and effectively manage the growing costs of discovery and litigation support.

ReSoft's E-Discovery & Archiving Solutions provide practical, cost-effective solutions to these problems.
More info: ReSoft Discovery & Archiving Solutions         Download the Report

MIMEsweeper Managed Service now available.
The MIMEsweeper Email Managed Service is a fully hosted email content security service designed to deliver effortless email security. This new service takes the burden of email security away from overworked IT teams in order to free up internal resources, while maintaining the highest standards of content security.

The MIMEsweeper Email Managed Service combines the rigor of the MIMEsweeper product portfolio with expert hosted management and implementation. Every email message, whether inbound or outbound, is subject to detailed checks by best-of-breed anti-spam, anti-virus and content security technologies before being released to continue its journey with the minimum of delay. It represents a simple way to manage email systems of all sizes, with no requirement for additional software or hardware at the customer’s site and the ability to deploy the system in stages for large and complex email environments.

Key features of MIMEsweeper Email Managed Service include:

• no software, hardware or maintenance
• 24x7 fully redundant hosting with 99.999% availability
• Eliminate 98% of spam with less than 1 in 300,000 false positives
• Multiple virus filters for maximum protection
• Bi-directional content security ensures all inbound and outbound traffic is filtered
• Dedicated image filter to eliminate distasteful material
• Full archiving to support compliance and business continuity
• Secure encrypted email between participating parties
• Total visibility, with web-based logging, reporting, audit and control
• Advanced graphical reporting and message tracking

More info: MIMEsweeper

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