Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP (AGSK) Holds E-Mail Bourne Threats in Contempt with CipherTrust's IronMail.ATLANTA -- Award-Winning E-mail Security Appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. Protects Burgeoning Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Law Firm's Messaging Infrastructure from Inbound E-Mail Threats and Outbound Policy Violations CipherTrust, Inc., the leader in messaging security, today announced that Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol (AGSK) is safeguarding its business critical and confidential e-mail messages from spam, intrusions, policy violations and other malicious e-mail threats with CipherTrust's award-winning IronMail(R) e-mail security solution. After deploying the IronMail appliance, AGSK found that more than 75 percent of inbound e-mail was spam and was able to eliminate that spam at the gateway before it could enter the firm's e-mail servers See mail server. . AGSK, a diverse law firm with practices ranging from business and entertainment litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. to transactional law, is located in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , CA, and has approximately 250 e-mail users. As a growing law firm tasked with managing significant amounts e-mail volume, some of which may contain confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead , AGSK needed a complete e-mail security solution that would reduce spam and mail volume on its Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. e-mail server. The Company also needed a solution that would protect sensitive e-mail traffic from inbound intrusions and outbound violations. To address these issues, AGSK conducted a search for e-mail security appliances and selected CipherTrust's IronMail to protect the company's network from e-mail threats, liability issues and save the company money in lost productivity. "In addition to solving the enterprise level spam issues, IronMail addresses other security and operational requirements (programming) operational requirements - Qualitative and quantitative parameters that specify the desired capabilities of a system and serve as a basis for determining the operational effectiveness and suitability of a system prior to deployment. right out of the box," said Ali Shahidi, Director of Technology at AGSK. "We rely on IronMail's unique features to monitor and control the flow of information through the email system. Email compliance and summary reports provide us with statistics and knowledge about information flow that would be otherwise very difficult to gather. IronMail's web mail adds another layer of email security to Microsoft Exchange's web mail. The overall solution is very robust with a very rich feature set that is highly customizable." AGSK deployed CipherTrust's IronMail and found that more than 75 percent of their inbound e-mail messages were spam. IronMail allowed them to quarantine quarantine (kwŏr`əntēn), isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. those messages, or drop them at the gateway. As a result, the performance on their Exchange Server noticeably improved, allowing for increased speed and server capacity. The Company found that since deploying IronMail they have saved a great deal of administration time. AGSK has also made the decision to add further components to their IronMail solution, including compliance dictionaries and encryption. The additional components will help further protect their outbound messages from content violations, and enable the attorneys to transmit sensitive data via e-mail. "Before deploying IronMail we briefly used a desktop anti-spam program, but found that it was not meeting our needs," said Nick Laurent, Systems Engineer for AGSK. "IronMail proved to be exactly what we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. with its accurate spam detection and automatic software upgrades. In fact, we recently upgraded to IronMail's latest version, 5.0.1 and have been very pleased with the new TrustedSource and Compliance Control features, which provide us more precise and effective protection. The enhancements in the software since we have started using it have been considerable, and we look forward to continued improvements. It seems as though the company always has something new and useful up its sleeve." CipherTrust's IronMail e-mail security solution is a gateway appliance that sits on the edge of the enterprise network, providing customers with the most effective, comprehensive protection for their individual messaging environments. IronMail is made up of variety of components such as Message Profiler, which conducts more than 1,000 checks on each individual e-mail and TrustedSource, which is based on real-time observation of enterprise e-mail worldwide, that work together to combat the multitude of e-mail threats on the Internet. Additionally, Connection Control, the first offering top combine network-based traffic shaping Using methods to keep traffic flowing smoothly in a network. Although the term is often used synonymously with "traffic engineering," traffic shaping deals with managing the network moment to moment, whereas traffic engineering refers to the overall strategies employed in a network. and reputation services to reduce e-mail, takes spam elimination to the next level by stopping messages from the most egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin spammers before they reach the server. All of these components, including ease of use and comprehensive policy enforcement played key roles in AGSK's decision to select IronMail as the firm's anti-spam and e-mail security solution. "Because attorneys are bound to protect the sensitive information of their clients, it is critical that they protect the means in which they store and transmit it. Powerful e-mail security solutions, such as CipherTrust's IronMail, are put in place to protect vulnerable e-mail from spam and other malicious threats as well as to prevent nothing confidential or private is sent out and lands in the wrong hands. AGSK has taken important steps toward protecting their employees and clients through their selection of IronMail," said Mike Rothman, CipherTrust vice president of marketing. About Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP is a Los Angeles-based law firm and enjoys a national reputation for vigorous and creative advocacy in complex business and entertainment litigation and business transactions. This select group of lawyers is committed to finding practical solutions that produce tangible and cost-effective results for its clients. Established in 1952, the firm has 100 lawyers. About CipherTrust, Inc. CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and work protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy The protection of electronic mail from unauthorized access and inspection is known as electronic privacy. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, e-mail is equated with letters and thus legally protected from all forms of eavesdropping. , and intrusion prevention See IPS and IDS. into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877.448.8625. CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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