McAfee Adds Managed E-Mail Protection

TwistedMetal · Sep 13, 2004, 08:36 PM

McAfee says that a new managed e-mail service will help small businesses handle the deluge of spam and viruses pounding their networks.

The Santa Clara, California, company plans to launch McAfee Managed Mail Protection, an integrated antispam, antivirus, and content filtering service for inbound and outbound e-mail, McAfee says in a statement.

The new service is targeted at companies with between one and 1000 employees that lack the internal expertise or resources to manage antivirus and antispam products, says Lillian Wai, product marketing manager for McAfee Managed Services.

The new service will be akin to other managed e-mail services offered by companies such as Postini and MessageLabs. Customers who sign on to McAfee Managed Mail Protection will be asked to modify their mail exchange record, redirecting incoming and outgoing mail to servers hosted at McAfee's network operations center in California, where the content scanning and filtering is performed.

The redirection adds a delay of less than two seconds to deliver an e-mail, but the service is only available to customers in the U.S. and only works with e-mail content written in English, Wai says.

McAfee is looking into the possibility of partnering with Internet service providers in the European Union, Asia, and Latin America to open other mail-processing centers in those areas, she says.

Full Article: McAfee Adds Managed E-Mail Protection
Source: PCWorld

Sep 13, 2004, 08:36 PM	#1
TwistedMetal MC John-117 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Phoenix, Arizona Posts: 728 Rep Power: 0	McAfee Adds Managed E-Mail Protection McAfee says that a new managed e-mail service will help small businesses handle the deluge of spam and viruses pounding their networks. The Santa Clara, California, company plans to launch McAfee Managed Mail Protection, an integrated antispam, antivirus, and content filtering service for inbound and outbound e-mail, McAfee says in a statement. The new service is targeted at companies with between one and 1000 employees that lack the internal expertise or resources to manage antivirus and antispam products, says Lillian Wai, product marketing manager for McAfee Managed Services. The new service will be akin to other managed e-mail services offered by companies such as Postini and MessageLabs. Customers who sign on to McAfee Managed Mail Protection will be asked to modify their mail exchange record, redirecting incoming and outgoing mail to servers hosted at McAfee's network operations center in California, where the content scanning and filtering is performed. The redirection adds a delay of less than two seconds to deliver an e-mail, but the service is only available to customers in the U.S. and only works with e-mail content written in English, Wai says. McAfee is looking into the possibility of partnering with Internet service providers in the European Union, Asia, and Latin America to open other mail-processing centers in those areas, she says. Full Article: McAfee Adds Managed E-Mail Protection Source: PCWorld __________________ [color=red][/color]