VeriSign Offers Message Archive Service and
Message Continuity Service To Help Enterprises Meet Regulatory Compliance
and Business Continuity Needs
Archiving, Indexing and “Always-On” Access to Corporate Email Provides
Disaster Recovery and Tools for Regulatory Compliance, Audit and Legal
Discovery
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA. – June 27, 2005 – VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq:
VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for
the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced the launch
of the VeriSign® Message Archive Service and the VeriSign® Message Continuity
Service, two services to complement the VeriSign® Email Security Service.
The new services allow enterprises to store, index and copy all business-related
emails, and provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use approach to meet compliance,
legal discovery and business continuity needs without deploying additional
hardware or software.
The use of email as a mission-critical business tool
presents many challenges for enterprises. In response to legal
and regulatory requirements, including directives from the Security
and Exchange Commission (SEC), the National Association of Securities
Dealers (NASD) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), VeriSign offers enterprises the ability to tag, index and securely
store email to enable rapid search and retrieval. Similarly, VeriSign
offers enterprises a way to provide employees and other partners 24/7
access to message content and email functionality to facilitate business
continuity. Disruptions to enterprise mail servers can lead to
breaches in regulatory compliance, loss of sales, customer satisfaction,
brand trust and intellectual property.
The VeriSign Message Archive Service
The VeriSign Message Archive Service helps enterprises address
compliance concerns by offering the following functionalities:
- Storage of inbound, outbound and internal email
in a secure repository, accessible 24/7
- An easy-to-use, Web-based interface that provides
tools for searching and recovering email
- Compliance workflow tools for supervising and
monitoring messages
- Pre-defined and customizable reports for monitoring
and demonstrating regulatory compliance, including reports for such
regulations as SEC Rule 17a-4 and NASD Rule 3010
- Message continuity tools for composing, reading
and replying to emails during mail server outage
The VeriSign Message Continuity Service
The VeriSign Message Continuity Service is an “always-on” email
continuity and disaster recovery service that provides 24/7 access to
message content and email functionality. The service intercepts
and copies all inbound and outbound email, and stores them in a 30-day
rolling message store. Administrators and end-users can access
a secure, searchable message store to recover lost or deleted emails.
If an enterprise’s mail server becomes unavailable, the service will
continue to copy messages, and queue them for delivery once service
is restored. Web-based tools provide continuing access to the message
store and email functionality such as reading, composing and replying
to messages during an outage.
“Enterprises are caught between relying on email as
an essential business tool and responding to new regulatory demands
for maintaining ready access to all electronic communications,” said
Chad Kinzelberg, vice president, VeriSign Security Services. “The
Message Archive Service and Message Continuity Service now available
from VeriSign provide a cost-effective means to help enterprises meet
business continuity and compliance needs without adding any hardware
or software to their already complex IT infrastructure.”
Both the Message Archive and Message Continuity Services
integrate easily with SMTP-compatible email systems such as Microsoft
Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell GroupWise.
The VeriSign® Email Security Service
The VeriSign Email Security Service can help businesses of all
sizes combat the threat of spam and email-borne viruses. The 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, the VeriSign Email Security Service leverages the VeriSign
distributed, scalable infrastructure to provide high levels of availability.
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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