SurfControl Launches E-mail Filter 6.0, Delivering Unified Protection to Stop Threats and Prevent Data Loss

Business Wire, Sept 5, 2007

New Features Include SurfControl Reputation Service, Anti-Virus Scanning Engine, Zero-Hour Virus Protection and More

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- SurfControl (LSE: SRF), a leading provider of global on-demand, network and endpoint IT security solutions, today announced significant product enhancements to its e-mail filter with the release of SurfControl E-mail Filter 6.0. Product enhancements include the new SurfControl Reputation Service, a fully integrated anti-virus scanning engine, zero-hour virus protection, and extended compliance features.

SurfControl E-mail Filter provides continuous, multilayered protection against increasingly complex blended e-mail threats such as spam, phishing, viruses and malicious code, as well as protection from confidential data loss. New compliance dictionaries and associated default rules, including HIPAA, GLBA and Personal identifiers, will increase organizations' abilities to manage regulatory compliance and enforce good corporate governance.

SurfControl E-mail Filter customers will now receive the benefit of SurfControl's on-demand solutions proprietary reputation service, which eliminates IP addresses with a bad reputation -- greatly reducing the amount of spam that is received by the end-user. Additionally, zero-hour virus protection will protect customers' networks from viruses as they emerge.

"Organizations are exposed to a variety of rapidly-evolving threats, with every e-mail," said Dave Tripier, senior vice president of product marketing. "SurfControl E-mail Filter 6.0 provides businesses with the visibility, control and comprehensive protection they need in order to keep their organizations secure without straining IT resources."

"I've looked at a wide variety of e-mail filtering products and SurfControl provides the most reliable and comprehensive solution out there," said Jeff Smyrski, Network Administrator for Bank of Utica. "E-mail Filter 6.0 with the new Reputation Service, coupled with True Source IP, is even more granular and has eased the burden placed on our IT administrators by reducing the sheer number of e-mail threats that enter the network."

Easy to install and administer, SurfControl E-mail Filter provides automatic database updates, flexible policy setting and centralized reporting with SurfControl Report Central, which provides unmatched visibility of e-mail usage and related threats. SurfControl E-mail Filter is also powered by SurfControl's Adaptive Threat Intelligence Service, drawing on global security experts, real-time threat detection technologies and the industry's most accurate dynamic threat databases to provide constant protection against emerging threats.

About SurfControl

SurfControl provides a portfolio of security solutions to protect our customers from Internet threats, deliver business and regulatory compliance, and enable business continuity. SurfControl believes that security should be treated as a science, delivering protection at multiple points -- "in the cloud" with on-demand security services, on the network with software and appliances, and on the desktop and mobile client. All of SurfControl's solutions for Web, e-mail and endpoint security are backed by industry-leading threat detection technologies, delivered by SurfControl's Global Threat Experts who work 24/7 to provide customers with dynamic zero-day protection. The company protects more than 16 million users and over 25,000 customers worldwide, and employs more than 600 people in offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. For further information and news on SurfControl, please visit www.surfcontrol.com.