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Nemx
Announces Power Tools 4.2
First antispam product to provide friendly domain
functionality
Ottawa, Canada – February 17, 2004–
Nemx Software, a provider of spam, anti-virus and
secure content management products for companies of
all sizes, today announced that its latest version
of Power Tools for Exchange Server Version 4.2 software
is the first antispam product to provide unique “friendly
domain” functionality, which will advance end
user and IT administrators’ confidence in efficiently
deciphering between - and automating the management
of - spam and legitimate business email. Nemx Power
Tools is specifically designed for Microsoft Exchange
Server.
According to leading industry analysts, false positives
– legitimate email messages identified as spam
- will cost U.S. businesses $3 billion in lost sales
opportunities by the end of 2003. With the increased
sophistication of spammers, many IT administrators
are now configuring their antispam implementations
to quarantine thousands of red-flagged email messages
to prevent spam from arriving in end-user mailboxes.
As a result, IT professionals are spending valuable
time personally handling thousands of email messages
to ensure no true business email is accidentally discarded.
The latest version of Nemx Power Tools is designed
to significantly reduce the number of quarantined
emails that administrators need to examine on a day-to-day
basis - and enable business email to reach its recipients
undisturbed - using a new function called “friendly
domains”.
For existing Nemx customers, such as Murphy McKay
& Associates, IT consulting specialists, friendly
domains will be a welcome addition to Power Tools.
“Spammers are always looking for new ways to
get through filters, but when using the quarantine
function we are faced with the risk of deleting legitimate
emails which are critical to our business,”
said Jeremy Whiteman, Network Engineer, Murphy McKay
& Associates. “This new functionality will
help us and our clients to reduce the time spent revising
quarantined messages and focus on other IT projects.
Power Tools enables us all to stem the tide of spam
into our end user inboxes by providing multiple lines
of defense.”
Nemx Power Tools 4.2 includes functionality designed
specifically to measure the frequency and destination
of emails that an organization sends through externally
trhough Exchange Server and automatically sets up
a list of “friendly domains”. Unlike white-listing
technologies that require IT administrators to manually
create lists of legitimate domains, “friendly
domain” technology intuitively identifies which
domains are those of actual business partners and
customers. This enables IT administrators to configure
Power Tools 4.2 to automatically delete all identified
spam, while legitimate email will then be forwarded
on for virus checking before arriving in end-user
inboxes.
“IT administrators are faced with ensuring all
legitimate business email gets through to the right
people and isn’t accidentally screened out as
spam,” said John Young, President of Nemx Software
Corporation. “Spammers are always going to find
new ways of getting around existing systems, so organizations
require tools that offer a multi-tiered approach to
dealing with spam. The addition of friendly domain
functionality to Power Tools’ current filtering
capabilities provides IT administrators with a powerful
tool for effectively dealing with spam to ensure the
reliability of email systems while addressing the
productivity challenges that come with fighting spam.”
The newest version of Power Tools for Exchange Server
will increase user confidence throughout companies
that depend on business email for the maintenance
and growth of their operations. Friendly domain functionality
will be integrated with Power Tools’ existing
features including Concept Manager, a technique that
uses thesaurus matching to monitor and block email
based on the entire concept of a message. Combined
with friendly domains, Concept Manager will provide
businesses with more granularity to email concepts
for detecting what is and is not spam.
Adding to its current arsenal of tools, Power Tools
4.2 will also include the following functionality:
Improved quarantined mechanism –
Using new filtering, categorizing, viewing and sorting
features, IT administrators can reduce administration
time when dealing with messages in the quarantine
folder.
Server-based
user rules – Organizations with varying
user needs now have the ability to push triggered
email to specific folders in end users’ inboxes,
enabling IT administrators to pass control to end
users to decide what email is important to them.
Pricing and Availability
The Advanced Edition of Power Tools 4.2 will be commercially
available February 17th. Pricing is dependent on components
selected and number of connectors and/or mailboxes.
The product is priced starting at $999 US for a 50-user
license, and starts at $495 US for the Internet Edition.
Nemx Power Tools is specifically designed for Microsoft
Exchange Server 2003, 2000, and 5.5.
About Nemx Software Corporation
Nemx Software Corporation was established in 1994
to provide adaptable security solutions for the Microsoft
Exchange environment. Nemx was the first company to
develop anti-virus products for the Microsoft Exchange
client and since then, the company has designed products
to work seamlessly with Microsoft Exchange. The company’s
products meet the growing need for secure email content
management, protection from viruses and SPAM, and
monitors for inappropriate employee behavior and content.
Nemx Power Tools offers multiple lines of defense
in the fight against spam, and comes in two editions.
Advanced Edition, offers enterprises of all sizes
complete protection from both Internet and internal
email, while Internet Edition, designed specifically
for small to medium sized enterprises, addresses security
at the Internet level. Nemx Software has more than
3,000 customers around the world, and is based in
Ottawa, Canada. For more information about Nemx Software,
please visit www.nemx.com
For more information please contact:
Media contact:
Maggie O’Lett-Patterson
High Road Communications
613-236-0909 ext. 314
molett@highroad.com
Corporate contact:
John Young
Nemx Software
613-831-2010
jyoung@nemx.com
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