Clearswift Launches Industry 1st ``Black Box'' Professional Service to Check Corporate Email Security.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2003

CS ClearDetect(TM) monitors and analyses existing email traffic to

measure the effectiveness of email policies and

content security capabilities

Clearswift, the world's leading provider of software for managing and securing electronic communications, today launched ClearDetect, a "black box" professional service for monitoring and analyzing an organization's email traffic in order to measure the effectiveness of existing email policies and vulnerability to content security threats.

ClearDetect establishes areas of vulnerability through scanning unobtrusively all SMTP email traffic by means of a 'black box' placed alongside the corporate network. The data collected is then analyzed and categorized -- based on a best-practice policy set up by Clearswift in conjunction with the client -- to identify and record any inappropriate content that is currently allowed into or out of the network and which would normally contravene a best-practice usage policy.

Typical data collected & analyzed at an aggregated level include:

-- Traffic volume: measures email volume, as well as attachments

-- Anti-virus: measures total number of threats & viruses detected

-- Anti-spam: measures volume of spam detected as compared to overall email volume

-- Confidentiality: measures any confidentiality violations based on defined criteria

-- Profanity: measures volume of email that violates profanity policy

-- Compliance: quantifies compliance violations

While many organizations have implemented email security infrastructure and configured security policies, the value of such technology is not fully realized due to complexities in analyzing message flow and content, without any service degradation or risk.

"Over recent months, the legal implications of poor email security have been widely reported, setting fear and uncertainty amongst senior IT executives of large scale organizations. While many may have departmental or location specific security products in place, few CxOs have a complete view of their organization's email traffic," said Paul Rutherford, Chief Marketing Officer, Clearswift.

"ClearDetect is like holding a glass to a wall and listening to people in the next room. Without interfering with the traffic, Chief Security Officers and CIOs can for the first time get an accurate, fact-based analysis of how their email security defenses are performing. Armed with this invaluable information, they can allay corporate fears aside or take appropriate measures to tighten their security defenses," added Rutherford. "In beta testing, trial customers who thought they were 'safe' found pornography, sensitive information being leaked -- even employees running their own businesses."

Managing and securing electronic communications within large enterprises is a complex task. Threats and issues that must be dealt with include viruses, spam, productivity, damage to reputation, breaches of confidentiality, legal liability, regulatory compliance, degradation of service and offensive or inappropriate content.

With ClearDetect organizations can:

-- Test current policy effectiveness

-- Review results and implement new policies

-- Identifies risk areas and bottle necks to improve security and

productivity

-- Ensure that they are meeting the regulatory needs of their

business, e.g. HIPAA, GLB and SEC/ NASD 

-- Allows more accurate decision making on current and future

communications hardware and storage requirements

-- Identifies areas where costs savings can be achieved:

-- Avoiding unnecessary increase in infrastructure costs

-- Avoids needless increase of network bandwidth

-- Reduces productivity loss

-- Reduces the risk of legal bills

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 email 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 email 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) 2003 Clearswift Ltd. All rights reserved. The Clearswift Logo and Clearswift product names including ES(TM), ENTERPRISEsuite(TM), ES ClearPoint(TM), ES ClearSecure(TM), ES ClearEdge(TM), ES ClearBase(TM), ES ClearSurf(TM), CS DeepSecure(TM), CS Bastion II(TM) CS X.400 Filter(TM), CS MIMEsweeper(TM), CS MAILsweeper(TM), CS WEBsweeper(TM), CS e-Sweeper(TM), CS IMAGEmanager(TM), CS SECRETsweeper(TM) are trademarks of Clearswift Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.