MessageOne Introduces New Email Security Service

MessageOne Inc., the fastest-growing business continuity vendor, today announced a complement to its industry-leading EMS Email Continuity service with a new integrated email security service that includes complete spam and virus protection. EMS Email Continuity and EMS Email Security provides complete protection against security threats and outages including outages caused by corruption or problems with Exchange(TM) or Active Directory(TM).

Email Availability a Top CIO Concern

As email becomes the most critical business application, CIO’s are increasingly focused on a long list of threats to email availability and security. They want to make sure that they are protected against data center outages, power outages, network problems, data store corruption, viruses, malware, as well as problems with Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange.

More than 1,000 companies depend on MessageOne’s EMS Email Continuity service to ensure that email is always available no matter what. EMS is a managed service that works closely with Exchange to back-up messages, calendars, and contacts to a global network of hardened data centers. Whenever problems occur, EMS allows organizations to failover in less than 60-seconds to a standby email system that provides full email continuity and ensures that no message ever bounces. MessageOne’s new EMS Email Security module adds full protection from spam, viruses, and denial of service attacks.

Email Security Threats on the Rise

With spam increasing 300 percent over the last 18 months and computer viruses threatening corporate email systems, the new EMS Email Security incorporates best-in-class spam and virus protection with the lowest total cost of ownership. Unlike traditional email security solutions that lose effectiveness unless they are actively managed, EMS Email Security is a managed service so there is minimal administration and end user management.

“We have had great success maintaining our corporate email system with MessageOne’s EMS,” said Treg Russell, Vice President, MIS, of the Texas Medical Liability Trust. “With the addition of spam and anti-virus filtering services to EMS, we have a comprehensive solution that addresses our email availability concerns and protects us from undesirable content. Email is one of our organization’s most important applications and with EMS we have confidence that we can access it whatever the circumstances.”

“Email is without a doubt the mission-critical application for today’s enterprises it cannot fail, and it must be protected from external threats,” said MessageOne CEO Satin Mirchandani. “With EMS we have earned industry acclaim for providing guaranteed email continuity, and now we can extend that solution to provide our corporate customers with reliable security in one simple managed service.”

One Seamless Solution for Email

EMS Email Security provides a best-in-class analysis engine without the complexity of traditional email security solutions. As part of MessageOne’s Email Management Services (EMS) platform, EMS Email Security is the only solution fully integrated with MessageOne’s EMS Email Continuity to provide all-in-one protection from security threats and email downtime:

The key features on EMS Email Security include:

 —  Best-in-Class Spam & Virus Protection:  As a premiere solution that     inspects more than 200,000 attributes of incoming email messages to     eliminate spam, viruses and unwanted content, EMS Email Security     features a dedicated virus engine to automatically update new virus     signatures. Its email firewall defends against directory harvest and     denial of service     attacks.      —  Automated Administration: EMS Email Security automates 98% of     administration by integrating directly with the email directory. This     provides dramatic business efficiencies and greatly reduces the high     incidence of errors including automated addition and removal of users,     aliases, and distribution lists. In addition, the solution     automatically updates spam and virus rules for maximum effectiveness     and users receive a single daily digest that allows them to view and     release quarantine emails from within Outlook.      —  Full Integration: With a single web interface for email and security     preferences, EMS Email Security continues to screen email and maintain     email security even if the primary email system experiences an outage. It     also features full directory integration to seamlessly maintain current     email information.      —  Lowest Total Cost of Ownership: EMS Email Security dramatically     reduces administration costs through automated processes and its managed     service approach greatly minimizes bandwidth costs.      —  Not Vulnerable to Windows Problems: Because of their technological     underpinnings, EMS Email Continuity and EMS Email Security are not     vulnerable to Windows viruses, trojan horses, or malware and are not     affected by Exchange or Active Directory corruption or other problems.      

EMS Email Security is delivered from hardened, world-class data centers around the world as a fully managed service including all hardware, software, administration and support. With intelligent integration, it links directly with the enterprise email system, corporate directory, corporate email archive, and with EMS Email Continuity to provide seamless email security and continuity.

Pricing and Availability

EMS Email Security is available immediately from MessageOne, at one low monthly price determined by the number of mailboxes. There is an introductory offer until June 30, 2006 that provides EMS Email Security for free to customers who purchase the full version of EMS Email Continuity. Both EMS products are available for Microsoft Exchange(TM) and Lotus Notes(TM).

About MessageOne

MessageOne (www.messageone.com) based in Austin, Texas, is the fastest growing business continuity company. MessageOne’s suite of products includes EMS(TM) Email Continuity, a highly scalable, extremely affordable standby email solution; AlertFind(TM), the leading enterprise emergency notification and escalation platform; and OneSwitch(TM), the only solution to provide automated one button failover service for Windows applications.

Exchange, Windows and Active Directory are trademarks of Microsoft.

MessageOne is in no way sponsored by or affiliated with Microsoft.

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SOURCE: MessageOne