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MessageLabs and Symantec Collaborate to Deliver Enhanced Anti-Spam Technology
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Email filtering firm MessageLabs announced a deal to incorporate Symantec’s Brightmail anti-spam technology into its own anti-spam service. MessageLabs expects to deliver the new joint anti-spam service to market in Q4 2004.
Under the agreement, MessageLabs
plans to integrate Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam technology alongside its own
proprietary Skeptic(tm) predictive anti-spam technology, creating a highly
effective and accurate, completely managed anti-spam solution.
to its managed email security environment, enterprise customers worldwide will
be able to leverage Symantec’s leading anti-spam technology and expertise in
combating spam as part of a truly multi-layered solution.
“Spam affects almost all
enterprises, creating legal liability problems, introducing security issues,
draining network resources, and destroying productivity,” said Richi Jennings,
lead analyst for the spam practice at Ferris Research, Inc. “Email-using
organisations that are winning the war on spam use effective spam-filtering
technology, often using several detection techniques. Managed or outsourced
email security services are easy to set up, have a predictable cost of
ownership, and make it easy to counter new threats.”
Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam 6.0
combats spam using 17 filters, more than any other anti-spam technology and
includes non-English language filters, reputation filtering, signatures, URL
filters and call-to-action rules and is backed by Symantec’s Probe Network of
over 2 million spam traps in 20 countries.
The combined solution will use a
number of Symantec’s filtering technologies provided through its Symantec
Logistics and Operations Centre, and focus MessageLabs’ development resources on
combating new, unknown and dynamic spam threats in the ‘window of vulnerability’
before a signature is available. MessageLabs pioneered the use of multi-layered
technology to combat email threats, launching the first Internet level email
anti-virus service in Europe in 1999 that uses a combination of Skeptic
predictive technology and third party anti-virus applications.
By offering Symantec Brightmail
Anti-Spam technology together with Skeptic predictive technology managed at the
Internet level as part of a complementary suite of email security and management
services, MessageLabs will be able to provide businesses with multiple
protections, easing the burden on in-house IT resources and offering higher
levels of service and support. Additional benefits of the combined solution
include improved email continuity, dictionary attack protection and disaster
recovery, plus infrastructure advantages gained from stopping viruses, spam,
Trojans and phishing scams at the Internet level, away from corporate networks.
“Working with Symantec allows
MessageLabs, a leader in managed anti-spam services today, to add an additional
anti-spam technology across our global network. Combined, it will create an
unsurpassedmanaged email security service for businesses of any size and in any
industry and region who optfor the financial, technical and service level
advantages of managed, proactive protection,” said Jos White, President,
Americas, MessageLabs. “The collaboration will further solidify MessageLabs’
position as the leading provider of managed email security services for
businesses worldwide.”
“While email has become the
communication tool of choice for businesses, we continue to see threats to email
on the rise and spam consuming more than 60 percent of inboxes globally,” said
Enrique Salem, senior vice president of Network and Gateway Solutions at
Symantec. “Symantec views managed services as an important delivery model for
our solutions. We are pleased to be working with MessageLabs to deliver our
industry-leading anti-spam technology to an expanded customer base.”
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