VeriSign Enhances Email Security Service;
Introduces Multi-Lingual Support
Service Now Available for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Canadian
French Markets
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. and LONDON, ENGLAND – INFOSEC 2005 – April 25,
2005 – VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN), the leading provider of
intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications
networks, today announced further enhancements to its Email Security
Service, including support for French, German, Italian, Spanish and
Canadian French. With the expanded language support and
capabilities, VeriSign® Email Security Service can help businesses of
all sizes combat the threat of spam and email-borne viruses. VeriSign
Email Security Service was introduced into the European market in February
2005.
VeriSign Email Security Service uses a cost-effective,
service-oriented strategy that delivers a measurable, immediate return
on investment by improving IT and employee productivity, reducing bandwidth
and storage costs and increasing email reliability. The service
is easy to deploy and provides high levels of availability and accuracy,
providing automatic, rapid updates of heuristics and signatures to reduce
the burden on IT staff. Additionally, VeriSign Email Security Service
leverages the VeriSign distributed, scalable infrastructure to provide
99.999% network uptime.
VeriSign also announced a program that allows customers
to upgrade to VeriSign Email Security Service from other anti-spam and
anti-virus products. Qualified customers can receive significant discounts
and a free trial.
In addition to multi-lingual support, new capabilities
to the VeriSign Email Security Service announced today include:
- Search Support in the Spam Quarantine Interface
- End users can now search messages in their quarantine account by sender’s
full or partial email address and full and partial text in the subject
line.
- Improved Policy Filter Options - Administrators
can now redirect (and block) or BCC (and deliver) inbound and/or outbound
email messages that meet the filter criteria. This feature allows administrators
to perform trace or audit functions on email messages that violate corporate
email content policies.
- New Report Options - The Spam Report feature now
includes spam messages blocked by the service, submissions to the “Abuse
and the False Positive” aliases by the customers, and a count of the
messages recovered from the Spam Quarantine. This gives administrators
a more accurate picture of the spam filter’s effectiveness.
“With support for international languages, enterprises
can now leverage VeriSign Email Security Services to preserve the productivity
gains of email communications while gaining better control of the service
through native language control,” said Chad Kinzelberg, Vice President,
VeriSign Security Services. “Working with our technology partner Frontbridge
Technologies, Inc., we can provide enterprises with further enhancements,
including searchable spam quarantine and easier policy implementation,
addressing customer demands for more intuitive, easy-to-deploy
anti-spam and content filtering options.”
Email has become a critical component of day-to-day
business communications. However, spam, email-borne viruses and worms
threaten to reduce the benefits of conducting business via the Internet.
VeriSign Email Security Service provides numerous capabilities to help
eliminate email-based threats and help enterprises achieve high levels
of productivity, including triple-layer spam filtering, multi-engine
virus scanning, policy enforcement, disaster recovery and quarantine
access.
About VeriSign
VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN) operates intelligent infrastructure services
that enable businesses and individuals to find, connect, secure and
transact across today’s complex, global networks. Additional news and
information about the company is available at http://www.verisign.com/
For more information, contact:
VeriSign Media Relations: Brendan Lewis, brlewis@verisign.com,
650-426-4470
VeriSign Investor Relations: Tom McCallum, tmccallum@verisign.com,
650-426-3744
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data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks
and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ
materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements.
The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, the uncertainty
of future revenue and profitability and potential fluctuations in quarterly
operating results due to such factors as the inability of VeriSign to
successfully develop and market new products and services and customer
acceptance of any new products and services, including the products
and services described herein, the possibility that VeriSign’s announced
new services may not result in additional customers, profits or revenues;
and increased competition and pricing pressures. More information about
potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial
results is included in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2004 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking
statements after the date of this press release.
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