IronPort Systems(TM) Expands Multi-Vendor, Multi-Layer Email Security Platform

IronPort Systems(TM) Expands Multi-Vendor, Multi-Layer Email Security Platform World's Leading Email Security Provider Teams With Best-of-Breed Technologies Including Authentica, PGP Corporation, PostX, Sigaba, Sophos, and Veritas/KVS SAN BRUNO, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- IronPort Systems, the market share leader in email security, today announced the IronPort platform partner alliance to provide a robust multi-vendor, multi-layer email security solution to its customers worldwide. By integrating best-of-breed security technology components, IronPort's email security platform now provides maximum email functionality and protection. The IronPort platform partner alliance consists of an impressive line-up of market leading anti-spam, anti-virus, encryption, digital rights management, and archiving vendors. The IronPort platform partner alliance vendors include Authentica, PGP Corporation, PostX, Sigaba, Sophos, and Veritas/KVS. In related news, IronPort and Symantec Corporation today announced an expanded 4-year OEM relationship that will allow customers worldwide to deploy either or both of Symantec's award winning Brightmail AntiSpam engine and Symantec AntiVirus engine on industry leading IronPort email security appliances. In-depth defense requires multi-vendor, multi-layer security solutions. The IronPort platform partner alliance brings together technologies from the industry leaders in each of their respective categories, enabling IT managers to deploy a best-of-breed solution without the challenges of integrating point solutions from multiple security vendors. The technologies available with the IronPort platform have been fully tested and are in production at leading customer sites around the world. IronPort's email security appliances also provide a powerful and flexible infrastructure for companies working to ensure regulatory compliance. "Today's IT managers need to deal with increasingly sophisticated and blended spam and virus attacks, while at the same time comply with stringent regulations that drive privacy, encryption and archiving requirements," said Tom Gillis, Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing for IronPort. "We have a responsibility to help our customers navigate these challenges and implement an in-depth, multi-layer, multi-vendor security solution. The IronPort platform partner alliance provides the power to customize a solution to fit their needs -- a solution built on IronPort's world class email security appliance." "PGP Corporation has a long history of providing standards-based encryption solutions to the leading worldwide companies," said Andrew Krcik, Vice President Worldwide Marketing for PGP Corporation. "We understand our customers' needs for interoperable solutions and are committed to continuing our partnership and to extending our joint customer-base with IronPort Systems." "As an integrated and comprehensive solution for email risk mitigation and compliance, IronPort is well positioned to address a large degree of the needs with today's messaging environments," said Shawn Eldridge, Director of Products and Strategy at PostX Corporation. "PostX is delighted to be a strategic partner in this undertaking." "Information security is becoming more complex as enterprise networks are opening up to more partners and customers," said Paul Nikcevic, Vice President Business Development of Sigaba. "This alliance helps customers address the need to secure email from both inside and outside the firewall, and Sigaba is pleased to join IronPort in this effort." "There is tremendous value in pairing Authentica's industry leading enterprise rights management solutions with IronPort's proven content filtering," said Norman Meisner, Vice President of business development at Authentica. "It's more important than ever for our mutual customers to automatically identify, secure, control, and audit email to comply with government regulations and adhere to corporate policies." ABOUT IRONPORT SYSTEMS IronPort Systems is the leading email security provider for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. The company has developed a family of email security appliances, the IronPort C-Series(TM), that offer breakthrough performance, unprecedented ease of use and reduced total cost of ownership. IronPort is driving new standards and providing innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems. For more information on IronPort products and services, visit: http://www.ironport.com/ . Source: IronPort Systems CONTACT: LIZ LANDIS of IRONPORT SYSTEMS, +1-415-828-4801, LLANDIS@IRONPORT.COM; or Brooke Chilen of bite communications, +1-415-365-0397, or Brooke.Chilen@bitepr.com, for IronPort Systems Web site: http://www.ironport.com/ ------- Profile: International Entertainment