Brightmail Extends Market Leadership and Marks Full Year of Profitability
Announcement posted by Brightmail 30 Jan 2004
Company Momentum Continues in Q4 2003 Brightmail Secures over 300 New Enterprise Customers
Brightmail, the leader in anti-spam protection, today announced an additional 300 new enterprise customer wins in Q4 2003, including Airbus, American Express, Cendant, Dell, Hersheys, Kimberly-Clark, and Viacom. Marking its sixth consecutive quarter as cash flow positive, Brightmailalso celebrates its first full year of profitability (Q1-Q4 2003), and 100% year-over-year revenue growth. Brightmail continued to demonstrate international growth, with greater than 20% of new business coming from Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Brightmail already has a strong user base in Australia and New Zealand with customers such as Primus Telecom, Telstra Clear, Telstra Wholesale and Xtra,said Garry Sexton, Vice President, Asia Pacific. With such strong acceptance of our antispam solutions we are very bullish about the opportunity to support many more local customers as the rate of spam continues to explode.
While achieving financial growth and profitability, Brightmail continues to be recognized as the most effective and accurate anti-spam solution available and has become the preferred platform for corporate spam protection. Leading enterprise publication eWeek recently recognized Brightmail as a benchmark in the field of anti-spam software, and PC Magazine awarded its prestigious Editors Choice award to Brightmail Anti-Spam in November 2003.
Brightmails incredible financial and technological growth and momentum in 2003 is powerful evidence that we are the anti-spam solution of choice, said Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Brightmail. Spam attacks cost U.S. companies more than $20 billion dollars annually, and the spam problem affects individuals every minute of the day. Thats why we are passionate about providing a solution that creates a more secure email system. We provide the most powerful, innovative and technically proficient spam protection on the market.
Brightmail software now filters 15 percent of all Internet email worldwide, processing more than 80 billion messages each month. This translates to anti-spam protection for more than 300 million email users, including more than 5 million enterprise seats.
2003 was a pivotal year for Brightmail in terms of product and partnerships. The company released four new versions of its enterprise anti-spam products, furthering its leadership in catching spam (more than 95%) while maintaining the industrys highest accuracy rate (99.9999%). Brightmail also launched Brightmail Anti-Fraud in October, which combats the newest forms of spam attacks email identity fraud or phishing and brand impersonation that threaten the integrity of companies doing business online. Lastly, Brightmail started offering its anti-virus product, powered by Symantec, to enterprise customers helping enterprises secure their messaging networks with best-of-breed software from market leaders.
Brightmail also established a Powered by Brightmail program in July, integrating its anti-spam software with leading appliance messaging solutions, through industry partners BorderWare Technologies, IronPort Systems as well as a hosted solution through Syntegra. The company also announced a partnership with Openwave Systems, in which Openwave will resell the Brightmail Anti-Spam software as part of its Openwave Email Mx platform. The fully integrated solution already protects nine ISPs and more than 11 million mailboxes worldwide.
The Brightmail reseller network continued to be a top priority in the fourth quarter to continue growth in the enterprise market. The company reported more than 25 new reseller partners this quarter, for a total of 100 worldwide. For 2003, Brightmail attributes much of its overall growth in the enterprise market to its expanding reseller network.
About Brightmail
Brightmail, the anti-spam market leader delivers anti-spam technology that makes messaging environments secure and manageable. PC Magazines EDITORS CHOICE for best enterprise anti-spam software, Brightmail Anti-Spam protects the email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, blocking unsolicited bulk email, or spam, while assuring that legitimate mail is reliably delivered. Brightmail protects over 1,800 of the worlds leading enterprises, including Airbus, Avaya, eBay, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, Hersheys, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, SAS and Terra Lycos. Brightmail also provides spam protection for the leading Internet service providers, including AT&T WorldNet, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Telstra Wholesale, Primus Telecom, Xtra and Verizon Online. Brightmail now protects more than 300 million service provider customers, and 5 million enterprise email users worldwide. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Brightmail is a private, profitable company backed by world-class investors and partners. For more information, visit www.brightmail.com.
Brightmail is a U.S. registered trademark. Brightmail Anti-Spam, Probe Network and the BLOC are trademarks of Brightmail Incorporated. Symantec is a U.S. registered trademark of Symantec Corp. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.
Brightmail already has a strong user base in Australia and New Zealand with customers such as Primus Telecom, Telstra Clear, Telstra Wholesale and Xtra,said Garry Sexton, Vice President, Asia Pacific. With such strong acceptance of our antispam solutions we are very bullish about the opportunity to support many more local customers as the rate of spam continues to explode.
While achieving financial growth and profitability, Brightmail continues to be recognized as the most effective and accurate anti-spam solution available and has become the preferred platform for corporate spam protection. Leading enterprise publication eWeek recently recognized Brightmail as a benchmark in the field of anti-spam software, and PC Magazine awarded its prestigious Editors Choice award to Brightmail Anti-Spam in November 2003.
Brightmails incredible financial and technological growth and momentum in 2003 is powerful evidence that we are the anti-spam solution of choice, said Enrique Salem, president and CEO of Brightmail. Spam attacks cost U.S. companies more than $20 billion dollars annually, and the spam problem affects individuals every minute of the day. Thats why we are passionate about providing a solution that creates a more secure email system. We provide the most powerful, innovative and technically proficient spam protection on the market.
Brightmail software now filters 15 percent of all Internet email worldwide, processing more than 80 billion messages each month. This translates to anti-spam protection for more than 300 million email users, including more than 5 million enterprise seats.
2003 was a pivotal year for Brightmail in terms of product and partnerships. The company released four new versions of its enterprise anti-spam products, furthering its leadership in catching spam (more than 95%) while maintaining the industrys highest accuracy rate (99.9999%). Brightmail also launched Brightmail Anti-Fraud in October, which combats the newest forms of spam attacks email identity fraud or phishing and brand impersonation that threaten the integrity of companies doing business online. Lastly, Brightmail started offering its anti-virus product, powered by Symantec, to enterprise customers helping enterprises secure their messaging networks with best-of-breed software from market leaders.
Brightmail also established a Powered by Brightmail program in July, integrating its anti-spam software with leading appliance messaging solutions, through industry partners BorderWare Technologies, IronPort Systems as well as a hosted solution through Syntegra. The company also announced a partnership with Openwave Systems, in which Openwave will resell the Brightmail Anti-Spam software as part of its Openwave Email Mx platform. The fully integrated solution already protects nine ISPs and more than 11 million mailboxes worldwide.
The Brightmail reseller network continued to be a top priority in the fourth quarter to continue growth in the enterprise market. The company reported more than 25 new reseller partners this quarter, for a total of 100 worldwide. For 2003, Brightmail attributes much of its overall growth in the enterprise market to its expanding reseller network.
About Brightmail
Brightmail, the anti-spam market leader delivers anti-spam technology that makes messaging environments secure and manageable. PC Magazines EDITORS CHOICE for best enterprise anti-spam software, Brightmail Anti-Spam protects the email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, blocking unsolicited bulk email, or spam, while assuring that legitimate mail is reliably delivered. Brightmail protects over 1,800 of the worlds leading enterprises, including Airbus, Avaya, eBay, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, Hersheys, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, SAS and Terra Lycos. Brightmail also provides spam protection for the leading Internet service providers, including AT&T WorldNet, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Telstra Wholesale, Primus Telecom, Xtra and Verizon Online. Brightmail now protects more than 300 million service provider customers, and 5 million enterprise email users worldwide. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Brightmail is a private, profitable company backed by world-class investors and partners. For more information, visit www.brightmail.com.
Brightmail is a U.S. registered trademark. Brightmail Anti-Spam, Probe Network and the BLOC are trademarks of Brightmail Incorporated. Symantec is a U.S. registered trademark of Symantec Corp. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.