SurfControl announces new technology Alliance with Research In Motion to provide advanced e-mail filtering for BlackBerry

Mobile Internet, The, Oct, 2003

SurfControl announced its entry into the rapidly growing enterprise mobile computing market on two fronts--providing 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.

SurfControl announced a technology alliance with Research In Motion. 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 RIM's 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. SurfControl E-mail Filter allows enterprises to deploy a combination of the industry's most powerful e-mail and antispam content management tools to help BlackBerry users minimize 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 corporation's Internet gateway and e-mail server. The E-mail filter 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 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 industry's strongest anti-virus protection, to scan, cleanse and block e-mail borne viruses by file type and in attachments.