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 New Mail Attender for Notes email archiving; Sharp rise in targeted trojan attacks; Poll says half of IT Managers don't monitor IM; New ReSoft Lotus Notes Catalog

July 2005

In This Issue:

Mail Attender for Notes V6.2 strengthens archiving & advanced mailbox management

Poll says half of IT Managers don't monitor Instant Messaging

iSolation Server- sharp rise in targeted trojan attacks using toolkits circumvents anti-virus tools

New ReSoft Lotus Notes  Catalog summarizes Notes tools

PREVIOUS ISSUES

June: Safe Delivery of ZIP files; TOPPER Version 4.6B improves complex email networks; AttachView wins two OWA awards;
Archive Attender 2.0.1 adds Mailbox Folder Hierarchy into the User Archive View.

May: Users want zero-hour virus protection: iSolation Server delivers; Email archive expands beyond Financial Services; 
Clearview Federal CU deploys Global Certs secure email; New Exchange Central & WebTeam Central improve Team & Resource Calendar Booking

April: Castcadia for Domino manages email broadcasts; 
ReSoft launches Messaging Compliance.com; 
Motorcoach & CNF implement Mail Attender to manage mailboxes; Discovery Attender 1.5 improves ediscovery in Exchange, PST files and common file folders

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New Mail Attender for Notes V6.2 strengthens archiving and advanced mailbox management 
Mail Attender for Notes is an advanced mailbox management and email archiving tool for users of Lotus Notes. New version 6.2 adds capabilities to enhance the email archiving capabilities of the product, including:

• Delegated Admin allows you to restrict who can do what
• Single instance of attachments in archived email further reduces the size of the archive databases
• Option to unarchive attachments
• Automatic cycling of archive database on age or size to assist in retention and file size management 
• Single, concatenated search on a combination of current mail and archive files

More info: Mail Attender      White Paper

Poll Says half Of IT Managers Don't Monitor IM Use 
According to a poll taken in June by our Instant Messaging Management partner, Akonix, almost half of managers do not monitor instant messaging use on their organizations' networks. An additional 29% don't know whether their companies are monitoring IM or not. In the online survey of more than 300 IT managers, only 27% said a supervisor controlled their IM use, and 29% did not know if they were being monitored by their employer. 
In a statement the company said, "By leaving employees' IM communications uncontrolled, businesses run the risk of security breaches and attacks, legal liabilities and staff leaking intellectual property outside of the company. This indicates that companies are lacking communication policies and IM management technology to help increase employee productivity and protect corporate resources." 

Akonix L7 is an Instant Messaging gateway that archives, content filters, adds disclaimers, manages attachments and enables IM anti-virus for public instant messaging clients including AOL AIM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger. It also supports Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS) and Lotus Sametime.

The Akonix Security Center team has identified more than 50 new IM security threats to corporations this past May. That level is more than half of the total recorded for the first quarter of 2005. 
More info:Akonix

iSolation Server - Sharp Rise in Targeted Trojan Attacks using Toolkits such as Rootkit circumvent anti-virus tools 
A security review of the first half of 2005 has reported a sharp rise in the number of Trojan attacks that leave compromised computers under the remote control of malicious hackers. The number of recorded backdoor attacks has jumped by almost two thirds, leading to a corresponding rise in botnets of enslaved machines used to send spam or launch distributed denial of service attacks. 

In just the first and second quarters of 2005, the number of exploited machines using backdoor techniques has increased over 63 percent from the total at the end of 2004. This often resulted in spyware and adware being downloaded onto affected systems. Thus spyware has continued to be a major problem.

The review suggests that many people are now using virus toolkits to create variants that can slip past antivirus filters. The company claimed to have found eight Bagel variants in a single day. 

The new iSolation Server 2.0, supplements existing anti-virus technology by identifying previously unknown and targeted threats in seemingly safe attachments such as ZIP files, 
testing for and observing malicious behavior in a secure, virtual environment. Version 2.0 offers scalability to more than 10,000 mailboxes & support for multiple servers. 

More info: iSolation Server      EWeek Review

New ReSoft Lotus Notes Catalog Summarizes Lotus Notes 
As a result of Customer demand, ReSoft has published a Catalog of its offerings to the Lotus Notes Customer base. The Catalog highlights the different tools available to allow organizations to maintain Email Security, Compliance and Storage Relief in a Lotus Notes/Domino environments.
Download Catalog

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