Protect Data enters into collaboration with Sybari

Protect Data enters into collaboration with Sybari - Supplementing the product range with Antigen, which provides virus protection for MS Exchange and Lotus Domino Protect Data has entered into a collaboration with the world-leading US anti-virus manufacturer Sybari. One feature of the collaboration is that Protect Data will become a distributor of the virus check system Antigen. Antigen is one of only a few systems that can effectively check for viruses in mail databases such as MS Exchange and Lotus Notes. Antigen is a system that has been developed specifically for the extremely demanding task of checking for viruses in mail databases. Few of the world's anti-virus manufacturers have succeeded in producing systems that can manage to check the large volumes of data passing through a mail database, and even fewer have succeeded in developing products that do not affect the performance and capacity of the mail servers. Antigen, from the leading US company Sybari, can handle both of these tasks, and the system works just as well on Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. In total, 87% of all virus infections in the last year have taken place via e-mail. There are now a number of products that can check for viruses at client or gateway-server level. However, for large companies and organisations, it is not sufficient simply to check incoming e-mails or to look for viruses which have infected individual clients via floppy disks or mail messages. When companies have large numbers of employees, there is always the risk of an individual user, either via a floppy disk or in some other way, introducing a virus which then spreads internally via e-mail, for example. As this is just as great a threat to IT security as infections coming from outside, Sybari has developed Antigen. Antigen is the only product available on the market for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino which guarantees virus scanning of each and every e-mail message in real time, with little or no additional load on servers. With its unique Antigen product, Sybari is offering by far the best protection and service on the market for safeguarding a company's e- mail traffic. Sybari is the only company to offer five different, well- known anti-virus engines and "real time in-memory scanning" of incoming and outgoing e-mail, as well as Information Store for Exchange in one and the same product. Protect Data is already a distributor of Sophos Anti-Virus and the content security system MIMEsweeper on the Nordic market. Birka Energi is just one of the customers that have already purchased Antigen from Protect Data. "With Antigen in our range, we can now offer comprehensive protection for mail communication. Antigen is a perfect complement to Sophos and MIMEsweeper, and by using all three you achieve extremely good protection against all types of virus, no matter where the infection originates," says Johan Henrikson, Head of Business Development at Protect Data Sverige AB. Protect Data will show Antigen from Sybari at Infosecurity 2001 trade fair in Stockholm 24-26 September, where Sybari also will be present. For further information please contact: Johan Henrikson, Head of Business Development, Protect Data Sverige AB, +46 (0)8-459 54 22 or +46 (0)733-56 54 22 Carl Rosvall, MD, Protect Data AB, +46 (0)8-459 54 23 or +46 (0)70-717 14 84 Protect Data AB is a Group offering tailor-made IT security solutions to large companies and organisations. The company offers access-controlling and encrypting systems for personal computers, anti-virus systems, firewalls, user identification systems, content control systems, Secure VPNs, digital signatures and PKI, and systems for secure transactions. Its subsidiary, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, develops access- controlling and encrypting systems for stationary and portable computers, palmtop computers and smart telephones. Subsidiary Protect Data Konsult, tailors security solutions to increase clients' competitiveness and improve business. Subsidiary, Protect Data is the market leader in its business area in the Nordic region and has subsidiaries in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, the United Kingdom and the USA. Protect Data has approximately 160 employees and is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange Attract 40 list. Visit our website at: www.protectdata.com. ABOUT SYBARI Since 1995, Sybari has the led the market in providing innovative solutions to groupware-based virus and security threats. Today, over 5 million Microsoft Exchange/Outlook and Lotus Domino/Notes seats are virus-free as a direct result of Sybari's Antigen technology. Sybari's Antigen is unsurpassed in providing protection of corporate messaging environments. Antigen's unique architecture institutes a preemptive line of defense from viruses and malicious code. Antigen for Microsoft Exchange and Antigen for Lotus Domino are distributed in more than 50 countries through Sybari's worldwide locations and distribution network. Sybari is headquartered in East. Northport, New York with an EMEA headquarters in Madrid, Spain and an Asia Pacific Headquarters in Singapore. Sybari's clients include IBM, Amazon.com, Cable & Wireless, Compaq, Con Edison, Dell, Deloitte & Touche, Eastman Chemical, Getronics, JD Power, Lufthansa, Mayo Foundation, Merrill Lynch, Nortel, Pirelli, Reckitt Benckiser, Sony, Target, Texaco, Tosco, Union Pacific, US Federal Government, and Visa. Sybari's many strategic partners include Lotus Development (NYSE:IBM), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Computer Associates (NYSE:CA), Compaq (NYSE:CPQ), and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW). ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/20/20010920BIT00030/bit0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2001/09/20/20010920BIT00030/bit0001.pdf