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Clearswift Smart Web & Mail™ enables growing businesses to deploy unified security for both gateways

Clearswift today launched its Smart Web & Mail, giving growing businesses with between 50 and 500 users access to enterprise-class content security at an SME-friendly price. Smart Web & Mail is the company’s first product package to be sold exclusively through the new Clearswift global partner program.

Smart Web & Mail bundles together Clearswift’s MIMEsweeper Web and Email Appliances to give SMEs total inbound and outbound security. The Smart Web & Mail is designed to stop bad content on the Internet and on email with full protection from spam, spyware, virus attack and other forms of malware as well as helping to prevent productivity loss through inappropriate web usage. The solution also safeguards confidential information such as credit card data and intellectual property and helps shield users from unwanted or inappropriate sites and online harassment.

Paul Prior, UK MD at Foursys, a Clearswift partner based in Cambridgeshire, UK, has been selling the Smart Web & Mail as part of a trial which started in January. “The introduction of Smart Web & Mail has provided us with a compelling offering to our SME customer base, which is expanding fast,” said Prior. “We have seen strong demand for Smart Web & Mail so far and competitively packaged offerings like this show that Clearswift is serious about driving revenue growth in the channel.”

Matt Helling, IT Security Division Manager at Softcat, a Clearswift partner based in Marlow, is also selling the Smart Web & Mail. “It is great for us to have an integrated web and mail product which we can offer to our SME customers,” said Helling. “It can be expensive for a growing business to implement security to cover both gateways, but the Smart Web & Mail is an affordable option. Another benefit for SMEs, which may not have a designated IT department, is that this appliance is low maintenance and requires very little administration time. We have already seen a good response from our customers and expect this to continue.”

Smart Web & Mail is the first exclusive offering for Clearswift channel partners as part of the company’s new global partner program. Clearswift operates a multi-channel model in its global markets with incentives to help drive revenue growth for partners through new license sales and renewals. It provides rewards through a discount and benefits structure and rebates on over-achievement on agreed targets for license and support sales.

Clearswift’s partner program is designed as a framework to be adapted to meet the needs of each market in which Clearswift partners operate. The partner program has three main distribution systems based upon market presence – direct to VAR, two-tier distribution and through a country distributor.

Block viruses & spyware
In independent testing Kaspersky’s anti-virus and malware protection (found in both our appliances) consistently scores as one of the top three anti-malware engines.

Stop Spam
Clearswift’s TRUSTmanager™ reputation service and SpamLogic™ anti-spam engine consistently scores well over 99.6% spam detection.

Safeguard your information
Clearswift’s Smart Web & Mail solution analyzes all outbound web and mail traffic, protecting information that is sent or received whether in an e-mail, webmail or shared on Web 2.0 sites using services such as blogs or Webmail.

Shield your users
Clearswift’s Smart Web & Mail solution benefits from a leading anti-spyware and the world’s foremost URL filter with a constantly updated database of over 25 million web sites to enable safer and productive web browsing.

Improve Productivity
When it comes to Web 2.0 collaboration, posts to blogs, wiki’s, Webmail and the dozens of emerging Web 2.0 technologies, the Smart Web & Mail solution provides control over employee internet use and ensure internet time wasting is kept under control.

The full Smart Web & Mail functionality includes:

• Bi-directional malware blocking from Kaspersky
• Unified management of email and web appliances
• Granular control over file types, file contents, their direction and size
• Full lexical analysis and lexical expression building tools.
• MIMEsweeper content filter policy engine for outbound data loss protection Built-in templates for PCI (credit card) and PII (National Insurance, Social Security) detection
• ThreatLab™ Managed Lists to block profanity and control a wide range of confidential and sensitive content
• Graphical, and scheduled reporting, with interactive drilldown on report items
• SNMP and SMTP alerting*
• TRUSTmanager™ spam reputation service
• World’s leading URL filter
• SpamLogic™ - anti-spam engine with grey listing & BATV, plus 6 additional filters for further fine-grained control
• Full content analysis and malware scanning of URL headers and all web page content, including HTML text
• TLS automated gateway to gateway email encryption, plus support for S/MIME and PGP standards
• Optional HTTPS/SSL encrypted web traffic malware and content scanning
• Personal Message Management allowing users to manage their own quarantined mail
• Stripping of cookies and blocking of malicious scripts and other active or streamed content
• Full message tracking and reporting
• Extensible URL categories with over 40 predefined
• Full policy configuration rollback

ENDS.

About Clearswift
Clearswift simplifies content security.
Our products help organizations enforce best-practice email and web use, ensuring all inbound, outbound and internal traffic complies with stated policy and external regulations.
Our content filtering solutions make it easy to deploy, manage and maintain data leakage protection for email and web traffic, enabling compliance with regulations such as GLBA and HIPAA and industry standards such as PCI. Our inbound protection capability stops up to 100% of spam, spyware and malware.

Integrated solutions for Exchange and Domino traffic ensures that common policies can be applied on all email and web traffic, into, out of and within your organization.

More than twenty years of experience across 17,000 organizations, including highly sensitive military network security, has helped us raise content security standards while simplifying security management..
www.clearswift.com

For further details, please contact:
Ellie Shaddick/Frances Herman-Squance
Brands2Life
Tel: +44 (0) 207 592 1200
Email: clearswift@brands2life.com
Isabelle Duarte
Director of Communications, Clearswift
Tel: +44 (0)118 903 8302
Email: isabelle.duarte@clearswift.com

About Foursys
Foursys Ltd is a solutions provider based in Cambridge specialising in information security with over 13 years experience, 800 customers and 2 million licensed users throughout the UK. The company has been a Premium Partner for MIMEsweeper solutions and services since 1999 with customers throughout the UK. More information is available at www.foursys.co.uk

For further details, please contact:

Email: sales@foursys.co.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1223 810910

Sarah-Jane Jarrold, SJPR Limited

Email: sj@sjpr.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 234228

About Softcat
Since inception our ethos has been to deliver enterprise class systems, service and support specifically developed for the SME market sector, this is now proven over 12 years and trusted by over 4500 regular customers. Our formula for success is built on the foundations of our core competencies, we deliver sound advice and solutions based around your IT Infrastructure, Software (Licensing), Security and Implementation / Support Services. Be it, small commodity requirements of network cables to complete managed software asset management solutions, we have the resource and capability to deliver.