SecureData, an ERP.com company and the exclusive distributors of Trend Micro, a leading provider of enterprise antiviurs and Intenret content security products and USA.NET, the Global eMessaging Service Provider, have joined together to help protect USA.NET's business email customers from ever-increasing, malicious Internet-borne viruses. With computer viruses accounting for more than $12.1 billion in losses in 1999 according to some estimates, Trend Micro's antivirus expertise not only enhances reliability, security and uptime: it protects the bottom line.
"We anticipate that USA.NET's virus scanning will provide peace of mind that our valuable information resources are actively protected against targeted virus programs," said Mike Long, an IT manager for Sanford, FL-based New Tribes Mission (www.ntm.org), whose 3,000 missionaries use email to communicate from some of the most remote locations on Earth. "Our organization depends heavily on email communications to link remote locations to donors, families and home offices. We cannot run the risk of an email virus destroying data on computers that have the linguistic or translation data for languages that are being written down for the first time ever. We expect that USA.NET's virus scanning will ensure that our communications and valuable data aren't compromised."
"USA.NET's partnership with one of the leading antivirus providers, Trend Micro, emphasizes how serious we are about our commitment to providing customers with the most reliable and secure suite of email solutions in the industry," said Ed Dunbar, USA.NET's executive vice president of sales and marketing. "As businesses increasingly recognize the value of outsourcing their email, we must meet their expectations for the sort of protection that Trend Micro's antivirus technology and 24x7 monitoring provide their employees and customers."
Leveraging Trend Micro's award-winning antivirus technology, USA.NET's antivirus service helps defend against devastating virus attacks by scanning for malicious code in email attachments at the Internet backbone before they enter USA.NET's database or customers' networks. By trying to eliminate the virus before they reach the customer, businesses are not dependent solely on the end user to perform regular updates on the desktop.
"Desktop solutions should be the last line of defense, not the first and only," added Dunbar. "Every second counts in virus protection, and solutions that are centrally managed have a greater chance of success." Available as a value-added feature on USA.NET's complete suite of email solutions, virus scanning gives USA.NET customers added peace of mind knowing that attachments are screened on all incoming and outgoing messages. If the attachment is contaminated, it is cleaned and passed through to the recipient. If the attachment cannot be cleaned, USA.NET's customers' administrators can choose from three options to handle infected attachments: delete the attachment and notify the recipient, return the message to the sender or notify the recipient that the message contains a virus.
With this announcement, USA.NET also becomes the newest member of Trend Micro's eDoctor Global Network. Providing a better defense against Internet viruses, the eDoctor Global Network is a worldwide Internet antivirus initiative comprised of service providers (ISPs, ASPs, and telecom companies) that have partnered with Trend Micro to provide 24x7 protection against Internet-borne viruses. Trend Micro's more than 150 eDoctors worldwide continuously search for new viruses and create patches that neutralize the threat. Within hours of identifying a new virus, USA.NET's dedicated Trend Micro representative calls with an update and provides a patch as soon as one is available.
"No organization that relies on mission-critical applications, such as email, can afford to be without Internet virus protection today," said Bernie Wu, Trend Micro senior vice president of Internet Outsourcing Services (IOS) division, Sales and Marketing. "We are extremely dedicated to our relationship with USA.NET and believe strongly that by partnering with industry-leading messaging application service providers, like USA.NET, we can effectively win the battle against Internet and email-borne viruses."
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SecureData
SecureDATA, an ERP.com company, is a Managed Security Service Provider. SecureDATA is the exclusive sub-Saharan Distributors of Trend Micro, providing enterprise-wide, centrally managed, server-based, virus protection, e-mail filtering and Internet filtering products and services.
Concern about Internet Safety has created a vigorous and growing market for content security products and services. Today, e-mail attachments account for over 50% of virus infections, and web-based malicious mobile code (vandals) is widely thought to be the predominant content threat of the near future. SecureDATA, brings sub-Saharan Africa the tools that build anti-virus and content security protection into the Internet and Mail/Groupware infrastructure.
USA.NET
USA.NET, the Global eMessaging Service Provider, delivers industry-leading email and advanced messaging services to more than 3,000 businesses-including American Express, United Airlines, Hewlett-Packard and Mail Boxes Etc.-and manages more than 15 million mailboxes worldwide. Designed to meet the needs of all audiences, USA.NET's value-added email outsourcing solutions eliminate the hassle and expense of installing, upgrading and supporting an in-house email system. The first company to launch Web-based email in 1996, USA.NET also became the first to introduce email outsourcing for businesses in 1997. USA.NET received the industry's first patent for its Web-based email filtering and forwarding technology in 1999. For more information on USA.NET, visit www.usa.net.