Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite Delivers … High Performance Boundary E-mail Management; ClearEdge 4.9 Offers Operational, Management and Performance Enhancements

Business Wire, Nov 12, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002

Clearswift, the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, today announced the upgrade of its ENTERPRISEsuite high performance Internet SMTP gateway e-mail management solution -- ES ClearEdge 4.9.

ENTERPRISEsuite meets the needs of security and IT executives seeking control of electronic communications and to reduce costs and risks of spam, pornography, loss of intellectual property and breaches of confidentiality. It delivers the e-policy infrastructure and the enforcement technology required to deploy a comprehensive management and security solution across multiple protocols, multiple locations and multiple servers.

Inbound and outbound communications

ClearEdge enables large, complex organizations to enforce policy management for inbound and outbound e-mail communications at the Internet SMTP gateway -- all within the ClearPoint PMI. ClearEdge provides protection against:

-- Lost productivity, damage to reputation and increased infrastructure costs from viruses and e-mail misuse

-- Confidentiality breaches

-- Exposure to legal liability

-- Harassment of employees

Key e-policy components that help to address these issues include text analysis and file blocking, spam filtering, integration with third party Anti-Virus tools and removal of scripts and attachments.

Operational, Management and Performance Enhancements

ClearEdge 4.9 offers a number of significant operational, management and performance enhancements over the previous version. Multiple e-mail quarantine areas are provided, enabling separation and policy-based access to blocked e-mails. Delegated roles based management enables customers to delegate tasks in a secure fashion. Automatic replication of e-policy across servers is another resilience improvement feature. Customers are also offered a new Active anti-spam service. Finally, to add to the wide range of Anti-Virus products supported, ClearEdge 4.9 introduces integration with the Symantec Anti-Virus product.

ClearEdge is managed by ClearPoint PMI (Policy Management Infrastructure), and is tightly integrated with the ClearSecure encrypted messaging engine.

About Clearswift

Clearswift is the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, with a 23 percent share of the global content filtering market. Clearswift delivers the capabilities for organizations to protect themselves against e-mail and Web-based threats, meet legal and regulatory requirements, implement productivity-saving policies and manage intellectual property passing through their network.

The company's expertise lies in establishing and enforcing e-policies. Content security threats include the circulation of inappropriate images and text, spam and oversize files, loss and corruption of data, breaches of confidentiality, as well as viruses and malicious code. Clearswift's software portfolio includes Clearswift MIMEsweeper, a product family for e-mail and Web e-policies and Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite, a software infrastructure for managing e-policies in complex environments. More information about Clearswift, its products and services is available at www.clearswift.com.

(c) 2002 Clearswift Ltd. All rights reserved. The Clearswift logo and Clearswift product names including ES, ES ClearPoint(TM), ES ClearEdge(TM), ES ClearBase(TM), ES ClearSurf(TM), ES Bastion(TM), ES X.400, MIMEsweeper(TM), MAILsweeper(TM), WEBsweeper(TM), e-Sweeper(TM), IMAGEmanager(TM), SECRETsweeper(TM) are trademarks of Clearswift Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Clearswift Ltd. (registered number 3367495) is registered in Britain with registered offices at 1310, Waterside, Arlington Business Park, Theale, Reading, Berkshire RG7 4SA, England.