MessageLabs and Symantec collaborate to deliver enhanced anti-spam technology
01 September 2004
CITEC's partners MessageLabs and Symantec have announced their collaboration, with the companies planning to incorporate Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam technology with the MessageLabs Anti-Spam Service to offer enhanced managed anti-spam services to organisations around the world.
MessageLabs expects to deliver the new joint anti-spam service to market in the fourth quarter of 2004.
Under the agreement, MessageLabs plans to integrate Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam technology alongside its own proprietary Skeptic™ predictive anti-spam technology, creating a highly effective and accurate, completely managed anti-spam solution.
By combining Symantec's anti-spam technology with its managed email security environment, enterprise customers worldwide will be able to leverage Symantec's leading anti-spam technology and expertise in combating spam as part of a truly multi-layered solution.
"Spam affects almost all enterprises, creating legal liability problems, introducing security issues, draining network resources, and destroying productivity," said Richi Jennings, lead analyst for the spam practice at Ferris Research, Inc.
"Email-using organisations that are winning the war on spam use effective spam-filtering technology, often using several detection techniques. Managed or outsourced email security services are easy to set up, have a predictable cost of ownership, and make it easy to counter new threats."
Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam 6.0 combats spam using 17 filters, more than any other anti-spam technology and includes non-English language filters, reputation filtering, signatures, URL filters and call-to-action rules and is backed by Symantec's Probe Network of over two million spam traps in 20 countries.
The combined solution will use a number of Symantec's filtering technologies provided through its Symantec Logistics and Operations Center, and focus MessageLabs' development resources on combating new, unknown and dynamic spam threats in the ‘window of vulnerability’ before a signature is available.
MessageLabs pioneered the use of multi-layered technology to combat email threats, launching the first Internet-level email anti-virus service in Europe in 1999 that uses a combination of Skeptic predictive technology and third party anti-virus applications.
By offering Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam technology together with Skeptic predictive technology managed at the Internet level as part of a complementary suite of email security and management services, MessageLabs will be able to provide businesses with multiple protections, easing the burden on in-house IT resources and offering higher levels of service and support.
Additional benefits of the combined solution include improved email continuity, dictionary attack protection and disaster recovery, plus infrastructure advantages gained from stopping viruses, spam, trojans and phishing scams at the Internet level, away from corporate networks.
About MessageLabs
MessageLabs is the leading provider of managed email security services to businesses based on market share, according to the Yankee Group Security Solutions & Services, February 2004 Report. The company offers industry-leading managed Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Image Control and Content Control services to more than 8,500 businesses around the world to combat email threats before they reach corporate networks and without the need for additional hardware or software. For more information on MessageLabs, please visit www.messagelabs.com
About Symantec
Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries. More information is available at www.symantec.com.
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