Clearswift Delivers Simplicity for Enterprise Content Security

MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance version 2.4 delivers innovative enterprise class network management and new generation Spamlogic

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—July 27, 2006—Building on its recent Frost and Sullivan Award for Technology Innovation, Clearswift continues its drive to simplify content security by launching a new enterprise class version of its email security appliance. MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance version 2.4 delivers tangible benefits to customers of all sizes with the next generation of the award winning SpamLogic engine. Targeted at enterprise customers, MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance incorporates a number of new features that specifically address the needs of organizations with multi-box deployments.

MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance 2.4 offers a range of new features including additional anti-spam signature technology, multi-appliance support, peer appliance Personal Message Management (PMM), integration with 3rd party archiving and encryption solutions, as well as innovative network configuration and diagnostic improvements.

Jon Lee, CEO, Clearswift commented: “Our goal is to make it easier for all our enterprise customers to manage their content security, whether they have chosen software, an appliance or a managed service solution. That means that we are constantly testing and enhancing the products to make sure that we’re the best we can be. The updates to the MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance 2.4 reflect both market needs and the latest in technological thinking.”

The enhancements are designed to improve the manageability of MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance 2.4 and are focused on enhancing the administrators’ experience. Clearswift is delivering improved diagnostic and management features that radically improve the network manageability for multi-box deployments, including MIMEsweeper peer appliance replication which allows policy and configuration to be created and adapted on one appliance and then replicated across up to 7 other appliances simultaneously.

This, combined with the MIMEsweeper peer appliance PMM, which allows a single appliance to be assigned responsibility for collecting details of messages held from other appliances and delivering one single digest to users, simplifies the process of ensuring security of all content.

Clearswift is also launching a new generation of its SpamLogic spam detection software, which is able to detect known automated spam profile signatures, also known as ‘bullets’. Bullets are small, targeted signatures, based on a combination of message attributes unique to that spammer that are repeatable from one spam message to the next. The Appliance provides a sliding scale of detection capabilities according to customer needs.

David Carr, Chairman of the MIMEsweeper User Group said: “The new features in version 2.4 of the MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance are going to make a difference to the workload of your average email administrator when deploying policy changes. With the inclusion of centralized PMM digests and enterprise management of e-mail policy this product delivers multi-box redundancy and ensures human error is minimized”.

Further new features include dual disposal actions that allow administrators to allow two actions when a content rule is triggered. For example a suspect email can be delivered and simultaneously routed to a server for archiving. Combined with the new Message Parking feature, which allows emails to be held back and delivered later in the day in order to avoid bandwidth problems, the Dual Disposal actions make an email network perform more efficiently while maintaining security.

About MIMEsweeper™ SMTP Appliance 2.4
MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance: “Email security all figured out”

MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance is complete email security in a box. Incorporating multi award winning anti-virus by Kaspersky, Clearswift SpamLogic™ anti-spam and intelligent MIMEsweeper content filtering it blocks all incoming and outgoing email threats, requires no specialist knowledge to install and is easy to use. Simply plug in, switch on and relax.

Key Technical Features:

* Enhanced Clearswift SpamLogic™ anti-spam
* Best of breed Kaspersky anti-virus
* Award-winning bi-directional MIMEsweeper content filtering engine
* Easy installation in less than an hour
* Multi-appliance support for enterprise class deployments
* Plug and play Linux operating platform
* Pre-loaded with standard policies
* Critically acclaimed GUI rated the best available by industry experts
* Personal Message Manager (PMM) self-release tool for end users
* Granular policy management
* TLS encryption

Product availability

Clearswift’s MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance is available in five models. For clients with fewer than 500 mail boxes (CS250 and CS500), 500 to 1,000 mail boxes (CS1000) and over 1,000 mail boxes (EN10 or EN20). For pricing, please call: 888-888-6883.

About Clearswift

Clearswift simplifies content security.

Our products help organizations enforce best-practice email and web use, ensuring all traffic complies with internal policy and external regulations.

Our range of content filtering solutions makes it easy to deploy, manage and maintain no-compromise email and web security for both inbound and outbound traffic.

Clearswift is the only vendor to offer comprehensive, policy-based content security in all three deployment methods: as software, as an appliance and as a managed service.

All three platforms are designed to take the hassle out of securing internet traffic, with a clear, intuitive management interface; automatic, ’zero-touch’ updates; powerful reporting and common-sense policy management.

Twenty years of experience across 15,000 organizations has helped us raise security standards while simplifying security management at the same time.

We’ve helped many of the world’s most successful organizations use the internet with confidence and are committed to staying ahead of the market and helping our customers defend against all emerging threats.

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