Tuesday, 28 November 2006

F5 and Secure Computing Unveil BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM)

F5 Networks, a provider of Application Delivery Networking, and Secure Computing, a provider of enterprise gateway security company, have unveiled BIG-IP Message Security Module (MSM).

BIG-IP MSM can eliminate up to 70 per cent of unwanted e-mail at the edge of the network utilising TrustedSource-before it gets through the firewall-significantly increasing the scaling capacity of existing enterprise anti-spam solutions, the company claimed.

"With Spam volume doubling every six months, enterprise message infrastructures are being pummeled by increased email and Spam loads," said Farzad Tari, Vice President of Business Development at Secure Computing. "Enterprises constantly should be reviewing their security initiatives to not only identify and block unwanted mail from reaching the desktop, but also to push this capability as far out as possible to realise maximum cost savings in bandwidth and management."

According to Gartner, up to 70 per cent of organisations' incoming e-mail is spam. Such unwanted e-mail can include security risks like viruses, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, Trojans, and other malicious threats-often sent by one of the more than 250,000 new zombies that Secure Computing's TrustedSource system typically identifies every day. According to Secure Computing, the global volume of Spam sent each day has more than doubled in the last nine months and shows no signs of slowing down.

General availability of the BIG-IP MSM is in January 2007. For more information click here.