Exchange Tools - Active Folders/MaX Compression/Archive One/ESRA/PlusPack/SessionGuard

November 30th 2005 - Archive One Policy improves storage & capacity of Exchange email archive

November 30th 2005 - PowerControls V4 enhances searching from backup Exchange edb files and expanded support for backup solutions

September 28th 2005 - OWA AttachView V7 improves attachment lockdown for traveling OWA users

August 19th 2005 - OWA AttachView gains excellent review in Windows IT Pro Magazine. Jeff Fellinge says " AttachView provides much needed email attachment security and management features that are missing from OWA and deserves serious consideration from any company using OWA".

June 29th 2005 - Version 2.0.1 of Archive Attender adds Mailbox Folder Hierarchy into the User Archive View delivering to users amore intuitive mechanism for accessing data from the Email Archive.

June 29th 2005 - AttachView for OWA wins two awards for Best Outlook Web Access Security Product  - MSD2D announced that AttachView was selected as the 2005 winner in the Exchange Outlook Web Access category of the MSD2D People’s Choice Awards. MSExchange.org announced that AttachView for OWA was selected the winner in the OWA Add-on category of the 2005 MSExchange.org Readers’ Choice Awards. 

May 25th 2005 - Exchange Central V3 allows group scheduling of employees, resources and conference rooms. Perfect for the Reception Desk, Supervisor or the ”Back-End“ Administrator for Planning/Booking/Statistics of Outlook calendars. 

May 25th 2005 - Banks and broker-dealers are obliged to retain email and instant messaging documents for three years under US Securities and Exchange Commission rules. But similar requirements will apply to all public companies from July 2006 under the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform measures. But selecting an archiving system becomes problematic because there are so many potential choices.  To help. Gartner Group has included Archive One within the market leaders for e-mail active-archiving, according to its new report, "Acquisitions Drive Expansion of E-Mail Active-Archiving Market.”

February 28th 2005 - Email Discovery - Two Steps with Active Folders & Archive One. STEP ONE: Start Search and Discovery - Active Folders Content Manager scans and discovers messages across an entire e-mail system. STEP TWO: Establish Retention Policies - Archive One is built on the same forensic discovery engine as Active Folders, and provides the means to establish a detailed e-mail policy that can be tailored for an organization.

October 20th 2004 - Why PlusPack is an essential tool for companies implementing OWA20003. There are some significant usability flaws in OWA 2003 - the built-in spellcheck does not have a customizable dictionary, it is only available in Premium Mode which requires three times more horsepower than Basic OWA. It does not offer Outlook style Addressing, only a cumbersome Find Names dialog. Do your users a favor and look into PlusPack for OWA2003, it overcomes these and many other OWA2003 usability issues.

October 20th 2004 - Free/Busy Calendar or Realtime Team-Aware Calendar - you decide! Ever tried booking multiple appointments in Outlook? Free/Busy information has no access limitations. Exchange Server Free/Busy store replication happens every 30 minutes but a potential free/busy time lag of 1 hour is possible. Remove these issues with Exchange Central - it gathers calendar information from Outlook & Exchange in realtime, with secured permissions, multiple views and sophisticated group appointment capabilities.

Spyware/Anti-Virus

October 25th 2005 - Free Download of New Ferris Research Report on Techniques for Zero Day Anti-Virus Protection

August 19th 2005 -Targeted WORMS strengthen need for iSolation Server. The speed at which hackers were able to take advantage of newly disclosed software flaws makes it vital for companies to look beyond patching to broader and more holistic measures for controlling vulnerabilities in the wake of a wave of worms this week that targeted a flaw in Windows 2000.

July 29th 2005  - iSolation Server- sharp rise in targeted trojan attacks using toolkits circumvents anti-virus tools. 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. 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. 

June 29th 2005 - Safe Delivery of ZIP files -  iSolation Server 2.0, a next-generation anti-virus solution uses virtual machine technology. It 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.

May 25th 2005 -  Zero-hour capabilities protect an organization from viruses, worms and Trojan horses before anti-virus vendors have had an opportunity to create a signature to defeat the new threat and provide it to their customers. Working at the SMTP perimeter, Avinti iSolation Server intercepts e-mail at the network edge, executes and monitors the e-mail behavior in a secure, virtual environment and then quarantines any e-mail exhibiting malicious behavior before delivery to the target user. 

March 24th 2005 -  Avinti's new iSolation Server prevents e-mail containing new and unknown viruses from spreading to unsuspecting users, working at the SMTP perimeter to: Intercept e-mail at the network edge; Execute and monitor the e-mail behavior in a secure, virtual environment, and Quarantine any e-mail exhibiting malicious behavior before delivery to the target user. 

January 27th 2005 - Spy Sweeper Enterprise - V 2.0 delivers improved scalability, load balancing, and bandwidth conservation for definition and software updates. New automated server throttling and randomization techniques manage peaks in client requests, and Microsoft SQL Server support allows a single server to support very large numbers of clients as well as custom reporting. 

EmailXtender/Akonix L7 Email & IM Archiving/Management

October 25th 2005 - New Sametime solutions for Chat Archiving, Persistent Team Chat, Queue Management

October 25th 2005 - Akonix L7 adds Remote/Traveling  IM User Support 

July 29th 2005 - Poll says half of IT Managers don't monitor Instant Messaging. 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.

March 24th 2005 - networkTwister - protecting Instant Messaging through encryption  - allows your organization to secure and manage all IM communications easily and transparently. When you send messages using standard clients (AOL, MSN, Yahoo etc.), networkTwister intercepts and encrypts the message after they are sent, but before they leave the sender's machine or network.

February 28th 2005 - AKONIX IM Management Case Study - Westar Energy. "We knew that we would be facing both legal and security problems if we didn't closely monitor and manage employee IM use," said Randy Meinholdt, Software Systems Engineer at Westar Energy. "The combined solution of Akonix L7 Enterprise and Akonix Enforcer addressed every concern we outlined, from data protection to compliance with industry and government regulations".

January 27th 2005 - AKONIX reports businesses not prepared for the legal risks associated with Instant Messaging

MXtreme anti-spam appliance

December 15th 2003 - MXtreme Email Security Appliance -  BrightMail edition now available

August 30th 2003 - MXtreme anti spam appliance and Brightmail make a winning combination

Mail Attender / PST Attender / Discovery Attender Database Attender / Directory Attender

November 30th 2005 - New Mail Attender for Lotus Notes V 6.2C extends & secures Lotus Notes archiving

November 30th 2005 - Discovery Attender V6.1C now automatically filters databases using the ACL! 

October 25th 2005 - Discovery Attender V6.1B available for Lotus Notes

September 28th 2005 - Archive Attender V2.1 improves management of archive Stores & user retrievals

August 19th 2005 - New Versions of Discover Attender for Lotus Notes & Microsoft Exchange new versions bolster the Ediscovery process. The Discovery Attender suite performs dynamic keyword searches in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, PST files and common file storage areas through customizable search criteria.

July 29th 2005 - Mail Attender for Notes V6.2 strengthens archiving & 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.

April 27th 2005 - Domino user Motorcoach Industries & Exchange user CNF implement Mail Attender to gain benefits of managing mailboxes. Mail Attender is a fast growing tool helping companies manage email growth, storage and regulatory issues. Here are two examples of companies gaining the benefits.

April 27th 2005 - Discovery Attender V1.5 improves ediscovery in Exchange mailboxes, PST files and common file folders

February 28th 2005 - New Discovery Attender for Lotus Notes now available. Discovery Attender for Lotus Notes allows Notes administrators to locate content within any Domino database (both email and non-email databases) and is is platform independent. Discovery Attender searches .NSF files for items that match criteria entered by the administrator, such as keywords, phrases and date ranges. Once found, the results can then be isolated in a Lotus Domino database or exported to XML for viewing through a web browser.

January 27th 2005 - New Archive Attender & Mail Attender make a winning combination. Recent improvements in the Archive Attender/Mail Attender suite of products add significant capabilities to the products for managing retention, deletion and archiving of email.

Secure Email Solutions - Secure Mail for Office, Secure Mail for Notes, Ceritifed Mail, Tovaris

August 19th 2005 - York County PA deploys GlobalCerts Secure Email solution to help meet HIPAA regulations

May 25th 2005 - Clearview Federal Credit Union has deployed the GlobalCerts SecureMail Gateway(tm) to provide seamless email encryption services to its members and employees. Ease of use, ease of deployment, and strong security were critical factors in choosing the GlobalCerts solution," said Lisa Fitz, Network Services Manager for Clearview. Clearview's deployment underscores that users need to send emails securely, without acquiring any special technical skills. 

March 24th 2005 - New Certified Mail white paper on support for HIPAA, GLB Sarbanes Oxley & SEC compliance Whether you are looking for a hosted secure email service, or a self-contained in-house software solution or appliance, CertifiedMail can meet your needs.

February 28th 2005 - Certified Mail helps EMSI in meeting HIPAA & GLB compliance. “A core part of our business is the transmission of confidential medical information and PHI. HIPAA, GLB and other regulations require we make every effort to protect the privacy of our customers’ confidential information”, says Kerwin Smith, Director of Infrastructure at EMSI. EMSI chose the Certified Mail Secure Email ASP service. “The flexibility provided by the combination of CertifiedMail’s outsourced secure email service, the in-house content filtering solution and the seamless integration between the two components convinced us that the company had the right solution for us”

January 27th 2005 - Abingdon Memorial Hospital deploys GlobalCerts for email encryption & HIPAA compliance

Sophos PureMessage

July 27th 2004 - Sophos PureMessage delivers integrated  anti-spam/anti-virus on Linux & Solaris

April 25th 2004 - Sophos outperforms AV rivals in Veritest Analysis

MIMEsweeper Content Security Family

November 12 2004 - MIMEsweeper for SMTP V5 The release of MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.0 is the most important announcement since the original launch of the product back in 1995 and sets a real benchmark for the industry. Not only does the world’s most advanced content analysis engine become even more powerful, it is now also the most scalable and manageable.

November 12 2004 - Anti-SPAM controls the perimeter... but it misses 80% of your email traffic - internal email, probably the biggest threat! One-third of security threats are generated from internal activity. Osterman Research classes this as the biggest messaging threat of all.... a user innocently downloads a threat from the web and emails it to a distribution list.... a disgruntled employee emails the latest customer list to their hotmail account before quitting. Check out our internal email content checking tools for Lotus Domino and Exchange 2000/2003 to prevent distribution of these threats.

March 22nd 2004 - Too many anti spam choices?: Radicati recommends MIMEsweeper as one of the top five. 

OmniAnalyser Metrics & Reporting

December 14th 2004  OmniAnalyser extends Messaging SLA, Cost Recovery & Usage Trending  to IM. OmniAnalyser provides a new set of web reports for IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing (formerly known as Sametime). OmniAnalyser™ helps companies bringing instant messaging in line with actual business usage to cut costs and improve quality of service. The new reports gives administrators analysis and reports on enterprise-wide usage, capacity utilization, and cost allocation of instant messaging. Thus, information like all meetings by date per given time period, users connected to Sametime, participants per organizational unit as well as the duration of all meeting room client connections is provided.

July 27th 2004 -Treat Email like the Phone Bill with OmniAnalyser

May 16th 2002: OmniAnalyser expands reporting and SLA measurements for Domino, Exchange & Sendmail

TOPPER Monitoring and Service Level Reporting

June 29th 2005 - TOPPER V4.6B improves real-time email management. Email always backs up when you least expect it... internet connectivity crashes, a server stops responding, a Blackberry device doesn’t connect.... and you are always the last to know. If a link slows or stops, TOPPER tells you! 

Websense Internet Screening System

Websense Client Policy Manager delivers zero day protection.