Secure Computing Unveils e-Mail Protection Initiative

Secure Computing Corporation, an enterprise gateway security provider, has unveiled a new initiative called ‘STAMP’ (Seven Technologies for Advanced Mail Protection) – designed to comprehensively improve e-mail security by bringing market research, industry architecture requirements and solutions to the forefront.

Organisations are faced with a plethora of e-mail challenges, many of which negatively impact businesses and productivity. This includes spam surges, malware threats, sensitive information leaks, and compliance and audit demands.

The STAMP initiative provides the marketplace with a deeper knowledge and understanding of the issues, identifies and highlights essential architectural components, and takes a comprehensive look at tools, technologies and solutions necessary to stamp out corporate e-mail risk.

Secure Computing STAMP Initiative

Based on extensive customer experience, a commissioned study from IDC focused on determining how companies are responding to messaging use, and global threat data from TrustedSource.org, Secure Computing has identified the core security components and architecture necessary to effectively combat spam, data leakage and blended threats. The company’s objective is to leverage its security experience and ongoing research to help businesses implement a proactive security architecture that can protect their environments as existing messaging threats increase and new threats arise.

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“Our recent survey that looks at North American organisations with 500 employees or more, confirms that organisations are not doing enough to stay safe. Unfortunately, they are depending on last generation solutions from multiple vendors to fight organised cyber criminals,” said Atri Chatterjee, senior vice president of Secure Computing. “Even in today’s challenging economic times, the study shows that executives recognise the importance of e-mail security and organisations are willing to invest in new solutions. Our initiative provides information and resources that help organisations understand the evolving threat environment and take steps to proactively protect themselves.”

The survey found that while inbound threats have evolved, only a small portion of organisations are well protected. Unfortunately, 60 percent of organisations were found to be performing dismally and allowing more than five percent of e-mail spam into the network. Additionally, nearly half of organisations suffered e-mail data leaks, and while most organisations were very concerned about this, only 28 percent have taken steps to alleviate risk. Finally, the survey discovered that organisations are looking for better ways of delivering e-mail security, and over half of the respondents believed that a hybrid solution approach would deliver the best e-mail security for both inbound and outbound threats.

Seven Requirements for Advanced Mail Protection

Secure Computing has identified the following seven key requirements for addressing today’s evolving messaging threats as cost-effectively as possible:

1. Real-time, multi-protocol reputation-based messaging security, providing zero hour protection, reduced bandwidth and archiving costs;

2. Multi-tiered inbound defenses, including global and local intelligence to deliver 99.5 percent effectiveness;

3. Complete content detection–both structured and unstructured–resulting in privacy and intellectual property protection;

4. Robust encryption and other compliance actions based upon policy, ensuring compliance and lowering risk of theft;

5. Integrated inbound and outbound protection solution, thus, reducing costs and improving efficiency;

6. A hybrid security application delivery architecture, enabling choice or mix of on-premise, hosted and virtualised solutions for greater business agility and flexibility;

7. Enterprise-ready, best-of-breed solution approach, combining scalability with stability, ease of administration and robust reporting capabilities to maximise and prove RoI to management.