Symantec Announces Integrated Antispam, Antivirus and Content Filtering Solution for SMTP Gateways

Symantec Announces Integrated Antispam, Antivirus and Content Filtering Solution for SMTP Gateways

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced it is raising the bar for enterprise e-mail security protection by delivering the industry’s first integrated best-of-breed antispam, antivirus and content filtering protection in a single software solution for SMTP gateways — Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0. The combination of technologies proactively protects against inbound and outbound e-mail threats at the earliest point of network entry — the Internet e-mail (SMTP) gateway. Scheduled to be available in May, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 is the final integration of Brightmail and Symantec technologies into a single, unified solution, and is a key component of Symantec Enterprise Messaging Management solution portfolio.

“Today’s enterprises rely heavily on e-mail for both internal and external business communication,” said Brian Burke, Research Manager, IDC’s Security Products. “To protect against malicious code, phishing attacks, viruses, spam and other unwanted e-mail, organizations require a comprehensive solution that provides layers of protection to stop inbound and outbound e-mail threats from impacting organizations and compromising security.”

E-mail has become a primary communications tool for companies and government agencies around the world, and with its growth comes the increased risk of threats. According to IDC, 80 percent of viruses enter through the e-mail gateway. In addition, the most recent Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (March 7, 2006) cites that phishing attempts made up one in every 119 e-mail messages processed, which constituted an average of 7.92 million phishing attempts detected per day in the second half of 2005 — a 39 percent increase over the first half of 2005. The report also states that Symantec’s antifraud filters — a key technology included in Symantec Mail Security for SMTP 5.0 — blocked more than 1.5 billion phishing attempts during this period.

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