Security news
Security news30 April 2003
Everyone.net selects Sophos Anti-Virus for its hosted email service
Lynnfield, MA - Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus solutions for businesses, and Everyone.net, a leading provider of fast, secure and reliable email services for individuals, business and service providers, announced an agreement that enables Everyone.net customers to benefit from Sophos's reliable virus scanning engine. The integration will protect Everyone.nets customers against harmful, email-borne viruses.
"Sophos's technology provides our customers with exceptional scanning speed and accuracy, which are critical to ensure timely and virus free message delivery," said Josh Mailman, vice president of marketing, Everyone.net. "Since we are a leading provider of hosted email for business and service providers, our customers count on us to provide the highest quality and most dependable virus protection available. In Sophos, we have found an impressive track record, dedication to virus research, and a top-tier product that enhances the functionality of our email service."
Everyone.net provides a complete hosted email solution for individuals, businesses and service providers with more than 22 million email boxes provisioned since 1998. Everyone.net provides virus-scanning services separately or as part of Total Protection solution that includes spam and virus defense.
"Everyone.nets integration of Sophoss virus detection engine into their hosted email services is a ringing endorsement of our technology," said Chris Belthoff, senior product marketing manager. "We are pleased that Sophos Anti-Virus has been selected to extend added email security for Eveyone.net clients."
Sophos Anti-Virus scans for viruses before they even reach the client in-box, thus preventing Everyone.nets customers from becoming infected. By integrating Sophoss engine into Everyone.net messaging architecture, customers are continually provided up-to-date virus protection automatically.
About Everyone.net
Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) is based in San Jose, California, and offers custom email services to everyone from Internet Service Providers, Web hosts and Web sites to businesses, organizations and individuals. Its cost effective solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure and include advanced services like IMAP and LDAP as well as anti-spam and virus protection.
Everyone.net has provisioned over 22 million mailboxes for over 100,000 domains since 1998. The companys financial backers include two premier venture capital firms, El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. For more information, please visit www.everyone.net.
About Sophos
Sophos enables enterprises all over the world to secure and control their IT infrastructure. Sophos's network access control, endpoint, web and email solutions simplify security to provide integrated defenses against malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications, spam, policy abuse, data leakage and compliance drift. With over 20 years of experience, Sophos protects over 100 million users in nearly 150 countries with its reliably engineered security solutions and services. Recognized for its high level of customer satisfaction and powerful yet easy-to-use solutions, Sophos has received many industry awards, as well as positive reviews and certifications.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com
