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VeriSign Extends Email Security Service to
Europe, Enabling Enterprises to Combat Spam, Viruses, and Email-Borne
Attacks
Service Uses Multi-stage Filtering and Virus Scanning To Protect Enterprise
Email Infrastructure
London UK, February 2, 2005 - VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN),
the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the
Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it has
extended its Email Security Service to provide support for European
businesses of all sizes, allowing European organisations to combat threats
posed to email infrastructure by spam and email-borne viruses. Available
in North America since June 2004, VeriSign® Email Security Service provides
enterprises with a cost-effective, service-oriented approach to eliminating
spam and viruses. Email Security Service delivers a measurable and immediate
return-on-investment by improving IT and employee productivity, while
reducing bandwidth and storage costs and increasing email reliability.
VeriSign Email Security Service is easy to deploy
and provides customers with high levels of availability and accuracy.
It provides automatic, rapid updates of heuristics and signatures, which
greatly reduces the administrative burden on the IT staff. This service
leverages the distributed, scalable and secure infrastructure that VeriSign
operates, to deliver 99.999 percent network uptime.
Email plays a vital role in day-to-day business communications.
However, spam, email-borne viruses and worms threaten the gains received
by conducting business via the Internet. VeriSign Email Security Service
offers the following capabilities to eliminate email-based threats and
help European enterprises achieve high levels of productivity:
- Triple-Layer Spam
Filtering - Custom blacklists and spam filtering, fingerprinting and
heuristics with over 10,000 rules results in high detection rates with
a minimum of false positives
- Multi-Engine Virus
Scanning - Regularly updated scanning using three anti-virus engines
to deliver early warning of viruses and effective blocking of malicious
emails
- Policy Enforcement
- Domain-level filtering of content and attachments for effective enforcement
of both inbound and outbound corporate email policies
- Disaster Recovery
- Automatically queue email on the VeriSign Network to be delivered
later, in the event a corporate email server is unavailable
- Quarantine Access
- End-user ability to view suspicious email to determine its legitimacy
Other enhancements to the VeriSign Email Security
Service include:
- Simplified Administration
- Rich reporting tools, group filtering and user management through
directory integration to minimize administrative tasks
- Powerful Content
and Policy Filtering - Offers administrators the ability to block malicious
content sneaking in through archived attachments (.zip, .tar, etc.)
by performing a deep scan of the files within the archives
- Preemptive Virus
Protection - Offered by placing suspicious emails on "virus hold"
until the anti-virus engines are updated with the latest patches to
remove the virus
"The extension of this service to the European
market will help enterprises continue to enjoy productivity gains from
email communication under threat from spam and viruses," said Souheil
Badran, vice president, EMEA, VeriSign. "With a service-oriented
approach, enterprises can easily obtain comprehensive email protection
in a matter of hours, without deploying any software or hardware. As
security related events continue to rise, VeriSign recognises and will
provide advanced features and functionalities for customers to stay
ahead of email threats."
VeriSign Email Security Service is available in the
EMEA market starting today. Enterprises are invited to take advantage
of a 30-day free trial of the service. For more information on the service,
please go to: http://www.verisign.ch/products-services/security-services/email-security/index.html.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) delivers intelligent infrastructure
services that make the Internet and telecommunications networks more
reliable and secure. Every day VeriSign helps thousands of businesses
and millions of consumers conduct commerce and communications with confidence.
Additional news and information about the company is available at http://www.verisign.co.uk
For more information, contact:
VeriSign Media Relations: Brendan P. Lewis, brlewis@verisign.com,
+1 650-426-4470
VeriSign Investor Relations: Tom McCallum, tmccallum@verisign.com,
+1 650-426-3744
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