Symantec first to offer email security and availability solution

Symantec Email Security and Availability - which will be demonstrated live during GITEX 2005 -- provides industry-leading products and services designed to drive down customer costs by reducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses, automatically managing the lifecycle of older emails through archiving, and by helping to keep customer's email infrastructures resilient against failure.

'Email has become a vital tool for organizations across the Middle East, and users are increasingly frustrated both by spam and the need to manage growing volumes of messages,' said Kevin Isaac, regional director for Symantec Middle East and North Africa. 'GITEX will afford our regional customers a first look at Symantec's new Email Security and Availability solution, which delivers comprehensive layers of protection and response needed to minimize the risk of failure, while providing confidence that should disruption occur, systems can be restored rapidly and securely.'

Email retention regulation is being considered for a number of sectors in the region, including banking and telecommunications. Email Security and Availability from Symantec helps customers meet internal business and external regulatory requirements for the management of corporate data stored in email. The new solution ensures email systems are secure and allows companies to get a better handle on email management to reduce the costs involved in legal discovery of email and control information being sent internally and externally.

Analysts Highlight Need for Email Protection
'To maximize email's value, control its rising costs, and reduce vulnerabilities, IDC believes that organizations need to look at email as an end-to-end process. This holistic approach demands a comprehensive email solution that enhances security and increases availability,' says Chris Christiansen, vice president of security products and services, IDC. 'This requires an information integrity strategy that integrates email security with archiving and policy-driven storage management.'

Symantec Email Security and Availability also significantly reduces the cost and time of migrating to newer versions of Microsoft Exchange. Because enterprises use email as a primary communications and document sharing and management tool, any problems encountered during the process of migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 could result in the loss of critical business records. Email Security and Availability ensures data security and protection while reducing the time and cost of migration. Recovery takes minutes instead of hours with no downtime.

Symantec Email Security and Availability offers customers a comprehensive, best-of-breed solution to ensure the security of email information and the availability of their mission critical email system. Gartner has placed Enterprise Vault in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active-Archiving, 2005 , and Symantec Mail Security in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Email Security Boundary, 1H05 .