MessageLabs Signs Agreement with CSC to Protect Against Spam, Viruses and Other Unwanted Email Threats.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2004 MessageLabs, a leading provider of managed email security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the to businesses worldwide, today announced that Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CSC) has selected MessageLabs to secure its global email system from spam and Internet viruses. "With approximately 90,000 employees worldwide, CSC needed a solution that was centrally managed, delivered across a global infrastructure and monitored and supported around the clock," said John Butch, CSC's Vice President of Distributed, Collaborative, e-Infrastructure Services. "MessageLabs has provided us with a proprietary, managed anti-virus service that's capable of identifying viruses before they are even known to be viruses. Our decision to use this service was validated when MyDoom.A hit. We were protected then and have been protected since then from email-borne viruses." "We are pleased to have CSC as a customer," said Jos White, president of MessageLabs Americas. "Global companies with a clear view into today's most common and challenging security threats understand the benefits and logic of using managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality to eliminate risks at the Internet layer See network layer. where they originate. This approach creates significant financial, technical and legal advantages gained from keeping viruses, spam and other malware away from corporate networks." The financial advantages gained from using a managed anti-spam service are significant. Spam today accounts for more than 63% of all global email traffic scanned by MessageLabs. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. , if the average employee makes $27.50 an hour and spends 10 seconds a day deleting spam, a company with 1,000 employees loses $27,500 annually to spam-related productivity costs. As spam volumes increase, consumption of email bandwidth, server processing and mail storage also increases. By filtering messages at the Internet layer, companies can reduce all of these costs and avoid unnecessary investments in email infrastructure needed solely to handle spam. On the virus front, with 80% of all viruses coming from the Internet, companies that use MessageLabs proactive anti-virus service can dramatically reduce wasted resources associated with reactively dealing with email-borne viruses. The technical advantages of using MessageLabs' services include having a centrally managed solution that can be provisioned within hours and built-in protection against distributed denial of service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. , dictionary and mail bomb attacks known to be used by spammers, hackers and online vandals to further their causes. MessageLabs' services also feature intrusion detection See IDS and IPS. and email disaster recovery so that if a company's mail servers go down, mail is queued and released when the servers go back online. Customer service, support and maintenance are provided around the clock, and service availability, latency and customer response times are backed by industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs). About MessageLabs MessageLabs is the leading provider of managed email security services to businesses worldwide. The company currently protects more than 8,500 businesses worldwide from email threats such as viruses, spam and other unwanted content before they reach their networks and without requiring additional hardware or software. Powered by a global network of control towers that currently spans the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Hong Kong, MessageLabs scans tens of millions of emails a day on behalf of customers such as The British Government, The Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. , CSC, EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. Music, HealthPartners, StorageTek, Air Products and Chemicals, SC Johnson, Conde Nast Publications, Fujitsu and Diageo. For more information on MessageLabs and its industry-leading email security and management services, please visit www.messagelabs.com. |
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