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.

December 14th 2004  Network World's Clear Choice Test Lab invited several anti-spyware vendors to submit products to its lab. Spy Sweeper Enterprise proved itself the best anti-spyware tool in tests, winning a Clear Choice Award. It contained the most spyware definitions, gave  excellent control over its client agents from a central console, ran quickly and unobtrusively, had an intuitive user interface, and displayed useful reports of its activity.

December 14th 2004  ESRA addresses mailbox privacy for Sarbanes Oxley and HIPAA One of the biggest risks in ensuring a secure email environment is in correctly setting user permissions. In most Exchange systems there can be tens of thousands of permissions and it is virtually impossible to ensure that all permissions are correctly set to comply with emerging regulations.

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.

November 12 2004 - Security Alert. Do you open Attachments in OWA 2003? You are breaching corporate confidentiality every time you open an attachment in OWA. You should consider Attachview for OWA, see how Lloyd's of London solved this issue.

November 12 2004 - Akonix shields FDIC Members from IM Security and Compliance Risks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has prepared guidance to assist financial institutions in protecting themselves against the vulnerabilities of instant messaging (IM) and establishing policies and procedures concerning its usage. The Akonix L7 provides all of the IM security and compliance solutions that Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) members require, to adhere to the recently issued FDIC financial institution letter, 'Guidance on Instant Messaging'.

October 20th 2004 - Akonix Takes On IM JPEG Virus Automatically..... While other solutions warn about this threat, the Akonix L7 Instant Messaging Gateway identified this virus and automatically updated its products to protect organizations from the attack. Leveraging it's automatic SpIM & Malware filter update capability and real-time IM content filtering, Akonix L7 Enterprise defends against IM-borne attacks. 
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October 20th 2004 - SPYWARE in the Enterprise - why your anti-virus tool can't remove it.... Spyware is extremely complex, with some making 20,000 changes to the Registry. Remove in the wrong order and things will be worse than when you started. Spy Sweeper Enterprise uses a client/server architecture to proactively detect and remove all forms of spyware and malware within the organization, reducing security risks, minimizing support requests and reestablishing computing and network performance.

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. Free/Busy replication has a potential lag time lag of 1 hour. 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.

August 30th 2004 - Implement Chinese walls to prevent messages going between departments, stop email going to competitors, prevent profanity, illegal attachments or intellectual property being sent, stop messages under Legal Discovery from being deleted. Mail Attender for Domino - prevents Lotus Notes users from saving, sending, deleting messages they shouldn’t!. 

August 30th 2004 - 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 you need to know that mail is flowing properly, implement End-To-End Server delivery monitoring using TOPPER. It monitors realtime flow between internal email servers, Blackberry devices and connections to the Internet. If a link slows or stops, TOPPER tells you.!

August 30th 2004 - IM Worms can spread in Seconds. Virus writers and scammers are now plying their trade via instant messaging. Jitux.A spread itself by tapping users' IM contacts, Bizex sent you a link to a Web site that scanned your PC for data on your electronic payments and finances. The AKONIX L7 gateway, winner of the Network World Clear Choice Award, controls user IM activity - blocking, filtering, scanning based on content and attachments.

August 30th 2004 - Email Archiving is no longer only linked to a mailbox. Archive One Policy v.4.0 brings some new ideas to email archiving - content specific archiving means that emails and attachments from project teams or regarding a particular client can go into a common archive. Multiple storage repositories with independent retention periods can further tailor archiving to individual departments' needs.

July 27th 2004 - Outlook Team Calendar - overcome frustrations with Outlook and Exchange Server’s weak group and calendar sharing options. Exchange Central & WebTeam Central give a single view of multiple Outlook calendars

July 27th 2004 -Treat Email like the Phone Bill with OmniAnalyser. Give Business Units fair and accurate usage accounting

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

July 27th 2004 - ePolicy Institute & AMA  announce results of the 2004 Workplace Email & Instant Messaging Survey

May 25th 2004 - Sigaba Secure Email & Secure Statements ensures secure delivery

May 25th 2004 - Websense Client Policy Manager delivers zero day protection. 

May 25th 2004 - Archive One & MaXCompression keep attachments where they belong - with stored email

May 25th 2004 - PST Policy Adminstrator manages age, size and compaction of PST files

April 25th 2004 - DiscoveryAttender dynamic keyword searches in Exchange, PST files and common file storage areas.

April 25th 2004 -  Why archiving e-mail could protect your company. 

January 29th 2004 -New AttachView gives secured access to email attachments through OWA

January 29th 2004 -Retrospective Analysis of 2003 The year the MAFIA moved in

April 25th 2004 - Lincoln Electric makes big mailbox size savings with Mail Attender For Notes

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

March 22nd 2004 - Archive One Email archive wins Messaging Product of the Year

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

March 22nd 2004 - Mail Attender for Notes awarded Lotus Advisor Editor's Choice Award

March 22nd 2004 - Free White Paper on best practices for Email Archiving within the Financial Industry

January 29th 2004 - Fixed SPAM? Now prepare for SPIM!

January 29th 2004 -MIMEsweeper for Web closes the gap in controlling webmail usage