Monthly Archives: July 2004

Customer Requirements for Email Archiving

This webinar discusses the main evaluation criteria that organizations should consider when selecting an email archival product. The speakers also address the distinctive needs of small, medium and large organizations.... read more »

Trend Micro Reports Record Second Quarter Results

Trend Micro released results for 2Q2004, ended June 30. Revenue increased 30 % to Yen 14.8 billion ($136 million) with net income of Yen 3.8 billion ($35 million). read more »

Sentinare Messaging Solutions, an E-mail Security Company Makes Spammers Pay With a New Technique Called “Tarpitting”

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DYS Analytics Ships Major Upgrade to CONTROL! Management Solutions for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Collaboration Products

DYS Analytics released version 4.2 of CONTROL!, its management solutions for Exchange and Lotus. Key enhancements: IM chat logging and alerting, broader email trending analysis, and automated end-user alerting, among others. Available immediately. read more »

McAfee, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Revenue of $226 Million

McAfee released results for 2Q2004, ended June 30. Revenue increased 4% to $226 million with a GAAP net income of $10 million. read more »

Symantec Unveils New Intrusion Prevention Appliance

Symantec announced Symantec Network Security 7100 Series, its intrusion prevention appliances. Utilizes the Intrusion Mitigation Unified Network Engine (IMUNE), which combines multiple detection technologies such as protocol anomaly detection, vulnerability attack interception, signature recognition, denial-of-service and scan detection, and IDS evasion detection. Available August 2004. read more »

EMC Delivers World’s First Storage-Aware Content Management Platform

EMC released EMC Documentum Content Storage Services, its enterprise content management solution. Enables organizations to define and execute storage policies that automate the placement and movement of content across a tiered heterogeneous storage infrastructure. Available immediately. read more »

CA Announces First Quarter 2005 Results and Provides Updated Guidance

Computer Associates released results for 1Q2005, ended June 30. Revenue increased 9% to $860 million with a GAAP net income of $53 million. read more »

Electronic Privacy and Security Regulations

In this report regulations such as HIPAA and GLBA are addressed in detail, together with an assessment of their impact on email.... read more »

Exchange Server Reliability

In November and December, 2003, Ferris Research conducted a survey of Exchange messaging managers, to identify key configuration statistics of their messaging servers. Statistics include mailbox size and growth, total server storage and growth, Windows versions used, and clustering. ... read more »

Gmail: Google’s Entry Into the Webmail Market

To get an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the new Google Gmail, Ferris has been serving as a beta tester for the program. This research note presents our current analyses of the Google service.... read more »

McAfee® Announces Enhanced Anti-Virus Protection With McAfee® Virex for the Apple Macintosh

McAfee released version 7.5 of McAfee Virex for Macintosh, its anti-virus solution for the Macintosh OS X platform and Macintosh Power PC. Key enhancements: real time “on access” scanning, automatic eUpdate, and generic virus detection, among others. read more »

NetIQ Marshal Content Security Solutions Protect Company Mail Systems and Reduce Security Exposures

NetIQ released Marshal Content Security Solutions, its security management solutions. Includes NetIQ MailMarshal SMTP 6.0, NetIQ MailMarshal 5.1 for Exchange, and NetIQ WebMarshal 3.5. Key enhancements: improved spam control and administration, among others. Available immediately. read more »

McAfee, Inc. Completes Sale of Sniffer Technologies to Network General Corporation

McAfee announced that it has completed the sale of the Sniffer Technologies business to Network General Corporation. Total consideration being received for the sale is approximately $235 million. read more »

VERITAS Acquires Invio Software

VERITAS Software announced it has acquired Invio Software, a privately-held supplier of IT process automation technology, in an all-cash transaction valued at $35 million. read more »

C2C Systems Releases Archive One Policy 4.0

C2C Systems released version 4.0 of Archive One Policy, its email retention and retrieval solution. Key enhancements: support for offline laptop archives, content specific archiving, and multiple deletion periods, among others. Available immediately. read more »

SurfControl Web Filter for Microsoft ISA Server 2004

SurfControl released SurfControl Web Filter for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, its Web content control solution. Adds enhanced Internet content control and the ability to customize content filtering to ISA Server 2004. Available immediately. read more »

McAfee Announces Availability of Multi-Layered Threat Protection for Microsoft ISA Server 2004

McAfee announced McAfee SecurityShield for the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004, its content management solution. Key features: anti-virus technology, virus outbreak management, and content scanning, among others. Available August, 2004. read more »

Download.Ject

Websense discovered 114 Web sites that are distributing variations of a malicious JavaScript program known as “Scob,” or “Download.Ject.” The majority of infected sites now run IIS Version 6. Attack code distributed by the infected servers still points to Web sites which were taken off-line shortly after news of the original attacks spread, meaning that... read more »

Postini: Half of all e-mail requests rejected

Postini announced that its anti-spam service is now rejecting more than 53% of all attempts to send e-mail to its customers without even reading the content of the e-mail messages. Of the 47% of e-mail connections accepted, 76% of the mail accepted is spam, and 1% to 2% are viruses. Only 11% of the 10.75... read more »

Open Text Announces Global Enterprise Content Management Event – LinkUp Phoenix 2004

Open Text’s LinkUp Phoenix 2004, an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) user conference, will be held November 15-18, 2004 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona. Open Text and IXOS will present an ECM vision for the future and share an integrated product roadmap plus sessions and demonstrations that focus on... read more »

McAfee SpamKiller

McAfee announced monthly rules set engine updates (RENUs) for McAfee SpamKiller, its anti-spam solution. RENUs will be released at the end of each month commencing July, 2004. read more »

SMB’s Get Some IM Facetime

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GFI launches GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 10

GFI released version 10 of GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP, its anti-spam solution. Key enhancements: allows network users to blacklist or whitelist senders via public folders, improved administrator tuning of Bayesian filters, and mail archiving to SQL Server, among others. Available immediately. read more »