Nemx Launches SecurExchange for Microsoft Exchange 2007

Fills Critical Gaps In Exchange 2007 Compliance Capabilities  

Ottawa, Canada – May 28, 2008 – Nemx Software, leaders in active email compliance, content control and security solutions for Microsoft Exchange, today announced availability of the full line of SecurExchange products for Microsoft’s Exchange 2007 platform.  Nemx is the first vendor to offer a full suite of rich, powerful and flexible email compliance functionality for the Exchange 2007 platform. SecurExchange now supports the full range of Exchange Server platforms (2003, 2000, and 5.5).

Accuracy and contextual comprehension are the cornerstones for the precise content detection necessary for effective email compliance and policy enforcement.  Scanning content for the presence of simple key words and phrases, like Exchange 2007 does, produces high rates of false positive and false negative detections, resulting in frustration, soaring administration costs and leaving the organization exposed to unacceptable risk and potentially expensive liability.

SecurExchange enhances Exchange 2007 by transparently adding much more sophisticated content analysis supporting “concept” scanning.  Concept scanning incorporates a variety of linguistic techniques, dictionaries, semantic inference as well as positional analysis to achieve substantially higher accuracy in all detection activities as well as significantly lower false positive and negative rates than Exchange 2007 on its own.  For example, the presence of the term ‘confidential’ in the text of an attached Word document isn’t enough to really know if the document is actually a confidential document and should be blocked from being sent externally or automatically encrypted.  However, if ‘confidential’ is contained in the footer of the document it is almost assuredly a confidential document.  SecurExchange has the ability to differentiate between these cases and recognize the significance, or context, of detecting confidential in the footer versus elsewhere in the content and take the appropriate action.  The focus on accurate contextual detection is evidenced in other SecurExchange capabilities.  For PCI compliance, for instance, SecurExchange not only scans for a 15 or 16 digit number (depending on the credit card and starting with the specific first 4 digits used in credit cards) as you would with Exchange 2007, but also, performs the necessary check sum analysis to verify the number is in fact a valid credit card number, thereby reducing false positives.

Concept scanning addresses another major problem with the basic key word approach used in Exchange 2007, namely that you don’t know what terms users may choose to use.   With over 30,000 commonly used words in the English language it is impossible to guess which ones will be used in any given email and too difficult and time consuming to define a rule with all the possibilities.  By scanning for the ‘concept’ of confidential rather than merely the term, SecurExchange will automatically recognize that proprietary information, eyes only, secret, private and similar terms and phrases have the same context as confidential even if the user hasn’t specified any of these terms in their rule.  These same techniques also enable SecurExchange to automatically detect plurals, different tenses, misspellings, and other derivatives without the need for users to specify all the variations. 

“Without a doubt, Nemx’s SecurExchange features some of the most complete and comprehensive content analysis techniques and capabilities of any product I’ve seen in the market,” states Michael Osterman, president Osterman Research.  “Its unique concept scanning is far more effective and context sensitive than the key word/phrase and limited semantic techniques used in many products.”

 “Enforcing compliance policies without imposing an undue and costly administrative burden, creating user frustration and truly protecting the organization through contextually accurate detection is the value SecurExchange adds to any Exchange 2007 installation” stated John Young, president of Nemx Software Corporation.  “It’s really about finding what the user means, rather than just what word(s) were used, that’s the difference between concept scanning and key words.”

SecurExchange for Exchange 2007 Features
SecurExchange plugs the gaps that remain in Exchange 2007 with concept scanning for improved detection accuracy, attachment inspection, policy management tools that significantly reduce the administrative burden associated email control and the richest set of smart action triggers available on the market.  Key features of SecurExchange for Exchange 2007 include:

• advanced “concept” scanning accurately detects context, plurals, tenses, similar meaning content and more
• policy administration tool supports reusable, separately managed policy objects, that significantly eases the burden associated with defining and maintaining email compliance policies, unlike Exchange 2007 that can require editing hundreds of individual email rules because of a simple change such as a “copy to” recipient
• Attachment scanning
• 100% email protection – scanning inbound, outbound and internal email traffic
• Optional policy-driven secure mail automatically encrypts or digitally signs email with no requirement for a desktop plug-in or user intervention, eliminating the chance for user mistakes and sensitive information being sent in the clear
• Real-time integration with Active Directory – no replication or synchronization of user/AD information
• Corporate signatures and disclaimers at a global (company-wide), or department/group/individual level supporting standardized corporate templates with personalized information (name, title, phone, email, etc.) directly from Active Directory – an important enhancement over the native Exchange 2007 feature
• Optional anti-spam and anti-virus protection

Product Editions
SecurExchange for Exchange 2007 is a full suite of comprehensive email compliance, content control and security solutions.  The range of available SecurExchange products and options offers the flexibility to precisely match user-specific requirements to a single, or combination of, SecurExchange product(s) for the most effective solution and unparalleled value.  For more product information visit www.nemx.com

Pricing and Availability
SecurExchange for Exchange 2007 is available immediately directly through Nemx, and its authorized reseller partners.  SecurExchange is licensed for a one-time license fee providing customers with total cost of ownership advantages that saves thousands of dollars over managed service offerings or subscription-based products.  Pricing ranges from $25 to $7 per mailbox, plus annual support and options.

About SecurExchange
SecurExchange is the only active email content control, compliance and security solution designed specifically for Microsoft Exchange Server environments.   The comprehensive family of SecurExchange products provide an active e-mail control solution for organizations of any size.  SecurExchange takes the risk out of corporate email by putting you in control of 100% of your email traffic – inbound, outbound and your internal messages.  With SecurExchange you can:

• Enforce corporate and regulatory compliance and acceptable use policies through real-time, policy-driven email inspection, control and security.
• Prevent content compliance violations in email and attachments.
• Prevent sensitive information leakage — internally & externally.
• Protect against spam, viruses and other email-related threats

About Nemx Software Corporation
For over a decade Nemx has been providing intelligent active email monitoring and control solutions.  At Nemx Software Corporation, we're driven by a single, comprehensive vision: to deliver Total e-Mail Peace of Mind™.  Our overriding goal is to intelligently protect our customers from all manner of messaging-based threats and content-related liabilities, whether from within or externally to the organization.  Nemx was the first, and still the only, company to develop solutions exclusively for the Microsoft Exchange environment.  Nemx products are used by thousands of customers in 25 countries, to protect millions of individual mailboxes against everything from content policy violations, threats to the exposure of proprietary or confidential information and the risk of corporate liability, to protection against spam, viruses, malware and malicious HTML code.  Nemx is based in Ottawa, Canada.  For more information about Nemx or SecurExchange™ please visit www.nemx.com