Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0, which will also be a part of the Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition, will introduce an advanced machine learning module that leverages fuzzy intelligence to identify unique and targeted scams and phishing attacks, and protect against these low volume, yet high-cost threats.

“While many solutions claim to block more than 95 percent of spam, the targeted spam that does get through can do the significant damage due to advanced social engineering and criminal motivations behind these attacks,” said Jack Quinnell, director, product management, Symantec. “The planned release of Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 staves off these targeted attacks, blocking more than 99 percent of spam while helping protect sensitive information and streamlining management of mission-critical email security.”

Easy-to-use and Uncompromising Protection for Small Businesses

A recent survey conducted by Symantec showed that 42 percent of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) do not have effective email protection, and they become easy targets for cyber criminals to attack for financial gain. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition, tailored for businesses with fewer than 250 users, may be installed within 15 minutes and provides the same enterprise class protection against viruses, spam, phishing, botnets, and spyware, and is very affordable with small-business-friendly licensing.

“The accuracy of Symantec Brightmail Gateway Small Business Edition is unbelievable. We’re blocking around 25,000 spam messages a day, and we haven’t had one false positive,” said Sean Adams, manager in charge of IT, Bertelkamp Automation. “And, with the outbound message filtering, I finally have control over the content that leaves our organization — from now on, email around here is going to be like Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood- safe and harmless.”

Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition, which will be available as both a physical appliance and a VMware-based virtual appliance, will offer ease of use with no requirements for manually tuning rulesets or maintaining allow and block lists to achieve effective and accurate antispam protection.

Improved Defenses with Adaptive Real-time Protection

Symantec has observed that the greatest volume of new spam attacks takes place within the first few minutes of their emergence. To effectively combat this, Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 is expected to provide real-time protection with antispam rule updates occurring as frequently as every second. These updates will leverage the depth and breadth of the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which includes more than 120 million antivirus sensors, 40,000 firewall and intrusion detection sensors, and feedback gleaned from more than 800 million mailboxes protected by Symantec.

Customers have a powerful new way to leverage the Symantec Global Intelligence Network with our planned release of Brightmail Gateway 9.0 by contributing automated data feeds directly to the patented Symantec Probe Network, which has five million decoy email accounts focused on collecting fraud, phishing and spam samples. By contributing to the Probe Network, customers may benefit from improved antispam effectiveness tailored to the email attacks seen in their environments.

Enhanced Content Filtering and Data Loss Prevention with Encryption

A new premium add-on service to Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0, Symantec Content Encryption is scheduled to be integrated with Brightmail Gateway’s powerful advanced content filtering and data loss prevention policies and workflow with a flexible and cost-effective hosted encryption service backed by Symantec Hosted Services. This hybrid architecture may allow customers to securely communicate with customers and business partners by encrypting sensitive outbound email without managing any additional infrastructure in-house.

Increased Scalability

Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 is expected to deliver new LDAP integration and Spam Quarantine architectures that provide customers with improved performance and scalability. The new LDAP integration architecture will scale support for recipient validation, authentication, address resolution and email routing based on a company’s LDAP infrastructure to very large enterprise deployments.

About Symantec

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As part of this announcement, Symantec and Message Systems are also releasing their first solution under the Service Provider Next Gen initiative – combining Brightmail™ and Momentum™ at the edge of the network. Brightmail in combination with Momentum offers an integrated solution that combines the Symantec Brightmail Message Filter and Symantec Brightmail Traffic Shaper products with Message Systems’ Momentum platform. It offers optimal message filtering and management results with higher financial return and lower cost of ownership.

“Service providers are struggling to simultaneously manage the increasing volume and complexity of the digital messages they process while fending off ever-changing threats to their networks and customers and competitive challenges to their business models,” said Art Gilliland, vice president, product management, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec. “Through the joint initiative with Message Systems, we can build a suite of solutions that address these challenges, starting with combining Brightmail and Momentum in a way that optimizes the technical strengths of both companies.”

Combining Brightmail with Momentum offers a comprehensive and efficient edge solution powered by one of the most sophisticated message management platform on the market. Specific capabilities include:

In addition to offering this powerful product combination today, the two companies will bundle other products and services under the Service Provider Next Gen initiative to address the broader business needs of service providers in 2010.

“The Symantec/Message Systems partnership represents the convergence of two technology leaders with a shared vision for the future of digital messaging,” said David Harvey, vice president of business development and partners for Message Systems. “Together, Symantec and Message Systems have enormous resources for technical and product innovation, and we’ve joined forces to achieve our vision and meet the needs of service providers for innovative solutions and superior service quality on a global basis.”

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

About Message Systems

Founded in 1997, Message Systems is a worldwide provider of message management solutions and services for email service providers (ESPs), Internet service providers (ISPs), social networks and large enterprises that need to manage large volumes of business-critical email. Through a combination of technology, partnerships and intellectual capital, Message Systems offers a family of software solutions and services that address the email infrastructure and deliverability needs for organizations ranging from e-commerce companies to the Global 2000. With the most powerful message management platform on the market, Message Systems gets billions of unique messages to the right place at the right time every day. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Message Systems has a network of channel partners in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, go to http://www.messagesystems.com or call 877.887.3031

Note to Editors: If you would like additional information on Symantec Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States.

Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Brightmail are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Forward-looking Statements: Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

Contacts:

Leslie Johnson
Atomic PR
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Pamela Reese
Symantec Corp.
+1 (424) 750-7858pamela_reese@symantec.com

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