New alliance provides advanced e-mail filtering for BlackBerry
Announcement posted by SurfControl 26 Sep 2003
SurfControl unveils follow me filtering strategy for mobile computing
SurfControl, the worlds number one Web and e-mail filtering company, (London:SRF, Nasdaq Europe:SRFC), today announced its entry into the rapidly growing enterprise mobile computing market on two frontsproviding advanced e-mail content filtering for the highly popular BlackBerry wireless solution, as well as a broad strategy to provide Follow Me Filtering products to meet growing corporate demand for secure mobile computing.
In an industry first, SurfControl announced a technology alliance with Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM; TSX:RIM), the mobile communications leader and provider of the BlackBerry wireless solution to more than 11,000 companies and government organisations around the globe.
SurfControl is the first content filtering company to provide its market-leading SurfControl E-mail Filter to enterprise users of BlackBerry, allowing corporations to reduce unwanted wireless network traffic and increase wireless handheld efficiencies. As a member of RIMs BlackBerry ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Alliance program, SurfControl offers SurfControl E-mail Filter, a fully integrated set of e-mail content security and anti-spam management tools that supports BlackBerry Enterprise Server, for continuous monitoring of unwanted e-mail traffic.
Corporate e-mail is going mobile, according to leading industry analyst firm, Gartner. Gartner predicts the number of enterprise users with mobile e-mail will grow to at least 10 percent in 2007, up from 1 percent in 2002. Another recent study shows more than 50 percent of laptop users access a wireless network for at least an hour a day (Power Strategies, Aug. 2003).
Wireless is rapidly becoming the network of choice for mobile business users, said Charles Heunemann, SurfControl Managing Director in Australia. As a result, enterprises are facing numerous wireless content security risks, such as breaches of network security, loss of company confidential information, and ever-increasing spam and viruses. This opportunity to work with RIM gives SurfControl a strategic jump-start in helping corporations solve this critical wireless data business issue.
SurfControl E-Mail Filter
SurfControl E-mail Filter allows enterprises to deploy a combination of the industrys most powerful e-mail, and anti-spam content management tools to help BlackBerry users minimise spam. It works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server to seamlessly support wireless e-mail for mobile professionals, while giving IT managers the reporting tools and vital information about the content flowing over their network. SurfControl E-mail Filter is server-based software that sits between the corporations Internet gateway and e-mail server and works in conjunction with the corporate firewall, virtual private network and authentication solutions to continuously monitor unwanted wireless e-mail traffic in and out of the network, without affecting the flow of legitimate business e-mail.
SurfControl E-mail Filter leverages and extends the filtering capabilities of BlackBerry Enterprise Server to offer advanced filtering tools that help prevent unwanted message delivery, said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. With SurfControls advanced filtering capabilities, BlackBerry users are provided with a convenient solution to help minimise the time spent managing spam.
SurfControl E-mail Filter combines multiple layers of spam detection and content filtering, including a vast spam signature database, artificial intelligence and lexical analysis using Boolean logic to identify and classify spam in real time, including HTML-based spam. It also includes some of the industrys strongest anti-virus protection, to scan, cleanse and block e-mail borne viruses by file type and in attachments.
Initial customer reaction to SurfControl E-mail Filters capabilities has been positive. SurfControl E-mail Filters addition to our BlackBerry solution has added a new dimension of security to our wireless communications, said Tom Fortier, Network Administrator for Powerwave Technologies in Santa Ana, Calif. The combination and reliability of BlackBerrys always-on, always connected service, plus intelligent e-mail filtering from SurfControl, has really made a difference for our mobile usersallowing us to stop wireless spam and improve our overall productivity using wireless e-mail.
SurfControl provides technical support and integration expertise to enterprise users of the BlackBerry wireless solution. SurfControl will participate in RIMs in-depth technical seminar series presented in 10 cities to help enterprises effectively deploy, manage and extend BlackBerry in corporate networks. The one-day seminar series began in Toronto, on September 22, and will also be offered in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Boston, through November. For more information, companies can visit www.blackberry.com/news/events/seminar_series.shtml
Follow Me Filtering Strategy
Stopping unwanted content from entering the corporate network is now an ebusiness necessity for organisationswhether they use wireless or wireline connections to access the Internet, e-mail, or instant messaging, according to IDC. IDC estimates security software solutions for mobile and wireless environments will reach $1.27 billion by 2007, from $86.4 million in 2002. Increasing mobile business communications, including the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots and use of external wireless data services are creating greater security headaches for businesses who need to enforce their Internet access policies outside of their virtual private network (VPN) or company network boundaries.
SurfControl announced its Follow Me Filtering strategy to meet this market opportunity. With Follow Me Filtering, SurfControl intends to offer products over the coming year that allow for the extension of corporate Internet access and e-mail policies beyond the corporate network boundaries, no matter where the mobile user is or the connection type used. The next Follow Me Filtering product, called Project Nomad, will provide intelligent Web filtering to wireless workers using PC devices. The company plans to conduct a pilot test of Project Nomad technology later this year, with plans for commercial delivery in 2004.
About SurfControl
SurfControl plc, the worlds number one Web and e-mail filtering company, delivers on its promise to help companies Stop Unwanted Content in the workplace by continuous innovation, invention and expansion of its filtering products to address new content risks as they emerge. The company is the leader in the Content Security market, a significant subset of the Secure Content Management market, a market that analysts expect to reach $US6.4 billion in 2007. SurfControl is the only company in the security market offering a total content security solution that combines Web, E-mail (including Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus) and Instant Message Filters with the industry's largest, most accurate and relevant content database and adaptive reasoning tools to automate content recognition. SurfControls world-class partners include Sun Microsystems, Check Point, Cisco, IBM, and Nokia. The company has more than 20,000 customers worldwide, including many of the worlds largest corporations. The company employs nearly 450 people in nine locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.
In an industry first, SurfControl announced a technology alliance with Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM; TSX:RIM), the mobile communications leader and provider of the BlackBerry wireless solution to more than 11,000 companies and government organisations around the globe.
SurfControl is the first content filtering company to provide its market-leading SurfControl E-mail Filter to enterprise users of BlackBerry, allowing corporations to reduce unwanted wireless network traffic and increase wireless handheld efficiencies. As a member of RIMs BlackBerry ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Alliance program, SurfControl offers SurfControl E-mail Filter, a fully integrated set of e-mail content security and anti-spam management tools that supports BlackBerry Enterprise Server, for continuous monitoring of unwanted e-mail traffic.
Corporate e-mail is going mobile, according to leading industry analyst firm, Gartner. Gartner predicts the number of enterprise users with mobile e-mail will grow to at least 10 percent in 2007, up from 1 percent in 2002. Another recent study shows more than 50 percent of laptop users access a wireless network for at least an hour a day (Power Strategies, Aug. 2003).
Wireless is rapidly becoming the network of choice for mobile business users, said Charles Heunemann, SurfControl Managing Director in Australia. As a result, enterprises are facing numerous wireless content security risks, such as breaches of network security, loss of company confidential information, and ever-increasing spam and viruses. This opportunity to work with RIM gives SurfControl a strategic jump-start in helping corporations solve this critical wireless data business issue.
SurfControl E-Mail Filter
SurfControl E-mail Filter allows enterprises to deploy a combination of the industrys most powerful e-mail, and anti-spam content management tools to help BlackBerry users minimise spam. It works with BlackBerry Enterprise Server to seamlessly support wireless e-mail for mobile professionals, while giving IT managers the reporting tools and vital information about the content flowing over their network. SurfControl E-mail Filter is server-based software that sits between the corporations Internet gateway and e-mail server and works in conjunction with the corporate firewall, virtual private network and authentication solutions to continuously monitor unwanted wireless e-mail traffic in and out of the network, without affecting the flow of legitimate business e-mail.
SurfControl E-mail Filter leverages and extends the filtering capabilities of BlackBerry Enterprise Server to offer advanced filtering tools that help prevent unwanted message delivery, said Mark Guibert, Vice President, Corporate Marketing at Research In Motion. With SurfControls advanced filtering capabilities, BlackBerry users are provided with a convenient solution to help minimise the time spent managing spam.
SurfControl E-mail Filter combines multiple layers of spam detection and content filtering, including a vast spam signature database, artificial intelligence and lexical analysis using Boolean logic to identify and classify spam in real time, including HTML-based spam. It also includes some of the industrys strongest anti-virus protection, to scan, cleanse and block e-mail borne viruses by file type and in attachments.
Initial customer reaction to SurfControl E-mail Filters capabilities has been positive. SurfControl E-mail Filters addition to our BlackBerry solution has added a new dimension of security to our wireless communications, said Tom Fortier, Network Administrator for Powerwave Technologies in Santa Ana, Calif. The combination and reliability of BlackBerrys always-on, always connected service, plus intelligent e-mail filtering from SurfControl, has really made a difference for our mobile usersallowing us to stop wireless spam and improve our overall productivity using wireless e-mail.
SurfControl provides technical support and integration expertise to enterprise users of the BlackBerry wireless solution. SurfControl will participate in RIMs in-depth technical seminar series presented in 10 cities to help enterprises effectively deploy, manage and extend BlackBerry in corporate networks. The one-day seminar series began in Toronto, on September 22, and will also be offered in Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Boston, through November. For more information, companies can visit www.blackberry.com/news/events/seminar_series.shtml
Follow Me Filtering Strategy
Stopping unwanted content from entering the corporate network is now an ebusiness necessity for organisationswhether they use wireless or wireline connections to access the Internet, e-mail, or instant messaging, according to IDC. IDC estimates security software solutions for mobile and wireless environments will reach $1.27 billion by 2007, from $86.4 million in 2002. Increasing mobile business communications, including the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots and use of external wireless data services are creating greater security headaches for businesses who need to enforce their Internet access policies outside of their virtual private network (VPN) or company network boundaries.
SurfControl announced its Follow Me Filtering strategy to meet this market opportunity. With Follow Me Filtering, SurfControl intends to offer products over the coming year that allow for the extension of corporate Internet access and e-mail policies beyond the corporate network boundaries, no matter where the mobile user is or the connection type used. The next Follow Me Filtering product, called Project Nomad, will provide intelligent Web filtering to wireless workers using PC devices. The company plans to conduct a pilot test of Project Nomad technology later this year, with plans for commercial delivery in 2004.
About SurfControl
SurfControl plc, the worlds number one Web and e-mail filtering company, delivers on its promise to help companies Stop Unwanted Content in the workplace by continuous innovation, invention and expansion of its filtering products to address new content risks as they emerge. The company is the leader in the Content Security market, a significant subset of the Secure Content Management market, a market that analysts expect to reach $US6.4 billion in 2007. SurfControl is the only company in the security market offering a total content security solution that combines Web, E-mail (including Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus) and Instant Message Filters with the industry's largest, most accurate and relevant content database and adaptive reasoning tools to automate content recognition. SurfControls world-class partners include Sun Microsystems, Check Point, Cisco, IBM, and Nokia. The company has more than 20,000 customers worldwide, including many of the worlds largest corporations. The company employs nearly 450 people in nine locations across the United States, Europe, and Asia/Pacific.