Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite Delivers ... Global Content Security From Single Point of Control.

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BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002

ClearPoint PMI (Policy Management Infrastructure) 6.0 Sets the

Standard for Policy Control in Complex Environments

Clearswift, the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, today announced the delivery of ES ClearPoint PMI (Policy Management Infrastructure) 6.0. ClearPoint PMI is the enabling ENTERPRISEsuite technology for managing e-policies in large, complex environments.

ENTERPRISEsuite meets the needs of security and IT executives seeking control of electronic communications and to reduce costs and risks of spam, pornography, loss of intellectual property and breaches of confidentiality. It delivers the e-policy infrastructure and the enforcement technology required to deploy a comprehensive management and security solution across multiple protocols, multiple locations and multiple servers.

Infrastructure and Interface

ClearPoint PMI provides a single point of control for policy and administration, increasing deployment speed and effectiveness, reducing Total Cost of Ownership and increasing Return on Investment. It reduces administration time and complexity in policy changes and traffic management. PMI facilitates the delegation of e-mail administration to business unit managers, thereby relieving administration bottlenecks.

PMI facilitates the deployment and management of any number of content filtering engines. It is made up of an infrastructure and a user interface. The ClearPoint user interface connects to that infrastructure to create and monitor policy -- the rules which conduct electronic communications into, out of and within the organization.

ClearPoint PMI also manages servers and performs administration tasks. The infrastructure is responsible for the storage and management of e-policy, user, server and audit information. It also disseminates and replicates policy and user details to content security engines that are part of the ENTERPRISEsuite installation. It additionally collects and stores information held on the content filtering engines, regarding quarantined items, traffic analysis and other status information, stores it and makes it accessible to the ClearPoint user interface for reporting and management purposes.

Previous competitive attempts at solving content security issues that face large, complex organizations involved the installation of individual point solutions, usually focused on a transport protocol (e.g. SMTP for gateway e-mail). Typically, these solutions would be managed from their own interface, and in cases where they could be managed together, it was at the expense of e-policy richness.

ClearPoint PMI conquers the complexity that is inherent to large organizations by combining the full power of ClearEdge gateway e-mail and ClearSecure encrypted messaging under a common interface, and enabling policy distribution and replication.

"The growth in the enterprise market is not in buying point products for individual security holes but managing the complexity of multiple products in multiple places to give consistency to corporate policies. Policy-based products that provide the framework to manage multiple engines across multiple locations and protocols while applying rules for use and performance are critical. With the market growth in secure content management for complex environments projected to grow at a 19% compound annual growth rate from 2001 to 2006, we see policy management as an integral part of successful implementation," said Chris Christiansen, program vice president at IDC.

"PMI is unique. It gives ENTERPRISEsuite customers a single dashboard to drive multiple content security engines. We are now able to integrate boundary e-mail with encryption from the same point of control. In the future, we will be able to handle any e-mail management challenge -- irrespective of e-mail volume, e-policy richness or number and diversity of e-mail protocols," said Paul Rutherford, chief marketing officer, Clearswift.

ClearPoint PMI 6.0 delivers Scalability, Distribution, Aggregation and Interoperability.

-- Scalability -- allows multiple ClearEdge/ClearSecure servers to be managed

-- Distribution -- able to manage all aspects of the infrastructure from a ClearPoint user interface that is remote from individual servers, which in turn can be remote from each other

-- Aggregation -- able to view information from geographically separated elements; able to report within protocols across servers; able to aggregate e-policies for gateway e-mail and encryption

-- Interoperability -- seamless replication of policy across servers

About Clearswift

Clearswift is the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, with a 23% share of the global content filtering market. Clearswift delivers the capabilities for organizations to protect themselves against e-mail and Web-based threats, meet legal and regulatory requirements, implement productivity-saving policies and manage intellectual property passing through their network.

The company's expertise lies in establishing and enforcing e-policies. Content security threats include the circulation of inappropriate images and text, spam and oversize files, loss and corruption of data, breaches of confidentiality, as well as viruses and malicious code. Clearswift's software portfolio includes Clearswift MIMEsweeper, a product family for e-mail and Web e-policies and Clearswift ENTERPRISEsuite, a software infrastructure for managing e-policies in complex environments. More information about Clearswift, its products and services is available at www.clearswift.com.

(c) 2002 Clearswift Ltd. All rights reserved. The Clearswift Logo and Clearswift product names including ES, ES ClearPoint(TM), ES ClearEdge(TM), ES ClearBase(TM), ES ClearSurf(TM), ES Bastion(TM), ES X.400, MIMEsweeper(TM), MAILsweeper(TM), WEBsweeper(TM), e-Sweeper(TM), IMAGEmanager(TM), SECRETsweeper(TM) are trademarks of Clearswift Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Clearswift Ltd. (registered number 3367495) is registered in Britain with registered offices at 1310, Waterside, Arlington Business Park, Theale, Reading, Berkshire RG7 4SA, England.