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This milestone marks the first Microsoft-branded release of the enterprise anti-virus and anti-spam products acquired in the 2005 acquisition of Sybari Software Inc.
Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products use multiple scan engines to help provide comprehensive protection from viruses, spam and other security threats. In addition to scan engines from industry-leading security companies AhnLab Inc., Authentium Inc., CA Inc., Kaspersky Lab, MailFilters.com Inc., Norman Data Defense Systems Inc., Sophos Plc and VirusBuster Ltd., all Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products now include the new Microsoft anti-virus engine.
'Customers are faced with the challenge of providing the best possible protection for their e-mail users and maintaining the availability, uptime and performance of this mission-critical application,' said Ashraf Al-Madhoun, Server and Tools Product Manager, Microsoft Arabia. 'Antigen's unique multiengine solution integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange Server to provide customers with the benefits of layered protection, while minimizing cost, complexity and impact on performance.'
'Server-based security for e-mail and collaborative applications is an important component of a multilayer security model and critical for protecting internal resources and providing threat containment,' said Brian Burke, research analyst at IDC.
'Antigen's proven strength in providing layered, anti-malware protection for e-mail servers addresses the most important customer concern around e-mail security: preserving uptime and availability of Exchange servers. By managing multiple engines, Antigen eliminates daily downtime during updates and provides customers with the opportunity to lower overall risk.'
Microsoft Antigen e-mail security products have already proven to be highly effective in helping customers such as global technology consultants Perot Systems achieve outstanding results in trial implementations. Perot processes nearly 15.5 million e-mail messages per month across its entire production environment, as much as 77 percent of which is spam or malicious in nature.
Using Microsoft Antigen, Perot has been able to capture and eliminate nearly all of that unwanted e-mail traffic. Perot has also deployed Antigen in customer environments worldwide, and has benefited from Antigen's support for multiple scan engines, ease of deployment, rapid signature updates, and centralized, efficient management, significantly upgrading the company's ability to regulate network traffic for itself and its customers.
Microsoft releases Antigen e-mail security products
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of Microsoft® Antigen e-mail security products - including Antigen for Exchange, Antigen for SMTP Gateways, Antigen Spam Manager and Antigen Enterprise Manager - available to customers July 1, 2006.
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About Microsoft Arabia:Microsoft Arabia was established in 1998 in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The headquarters are based in Riyadh whereas the branch offices are located in the major cities like Jeddah and Al Khobbar. MS Arabia is a global leading software provider in the Saudi market as it provides all the sale, marketing, consultancy and local support services and solutions to Microsoft's customers and/or partners. MS local CEOs, managers and the administrative teams drive the software business inside the Saudi market to score the utmost growth in the long and short runs. Microsoft Arabia is abided with introducing the new products and services within turnkey packages of educational and training applications as well as holding the technical local seminars specifically tailored to transform the top-notch information and technologies into the Kingdom, serving the corporations, small and medium-sized business, developers, system engineers and the professionals customers working in Saudi IT sector. All in all, MS Arabia is committed to promote the other communities that use IT. Microsoft Arabia has participated in many projects and programs that supported the charity organizations besides the initiatives supporting the organizations that sponsor and take care of the Saudi talented youth. Microsoft Arabia gives special carefulness to the Saudi woman to promote her technology skills through a bulk of projects and programs that help her play more proactive role in the economical and technical sectors. Furthermore, Saudi education occupies a special position within Microsoft's top priorities and activities that cover all walks of life all over the Kingdom. These activities cover the interests of the Saudi education ministry and some universities and colleges. Most importantly, through its full support to the governmental initiatives, Microsoft's communal commitment covers many horizontal and vertical sectors, especially that involved in the Saudi e-government project. The main role played by Microsoft Arabia is to deploy the proper technologies and solutions necessary to fulfil this gigantic project. Microsoft Arabia has accomplished a number of the projects that serve this tendency. It has showed its leading and outstanding participations in providing many portal solutions to the private and public businesses.
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Posted by Janeta Novakovic, Assistant News EditorWednesday, June 28 - 2006 at 16:40 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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