Clearswift, the MIMEsweeper™ Company, welcomes you to the fourth issue of the CONNECT newsletter, designed to keep you abreast of all content security issues; from virus alerts to insight articles by industry-leading authors. If you do not wish to receive this information, please follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of this email.

INFORMATION THEFT - SPYWARE AND RELATED THREATS
Pete Simpson looks at how spyware is affecting organizations of all sizes.

TEN YEARS OF MIMESWEEPER
Jon Lee looks back at the last MIMEsweeper decade - from conception to the launch of the appliance.

EMAIL USERS BEHAVING BADLY - ESPECIALLY IN THE CAPITAL!
Londoners more sneaky, foul-mouthed and malicious than the rest of the country.

INTRODUCING SPAMLOGIC - THE NEW ANTI-SPAM TECHNOLOGY
SpamLogic uses a whole battery of defenses, orchestrated in a completely new way to deliver the best accuracy rates you can get (over 99%). Read the reviews and find out more.

2005 MUF CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Dave Carr looks back on last month's successful User Conference and the Clearswift Gala Evening event.

EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT - Matt Kirchberg
Ian Bowles congratulates this quarter's nominated employee and recognizes his hard work for US Support.

COMING SOON! ... Hassle free protection for your email infrastructure Clearswift will soon be offering a new Managed Service, providing organizations with an additional first line of defense against the latest threats and issues that face email users. The service has the ability to stop over 98% of spam and 100% of known viruses from ever leaving the Internet and invading your personal space.

PRODUCT LAUNCH :: MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance Tough on email threats. Easy on administrators. MIMEsweeper™ SMTP Appliance is true plug ‘n’ play email protection. In under an hour, you’ll have email security all figured out. It requires no third-party engineer to install, comes pre-loaded with email policies and its GUI is second nature to use. It even updates itself.

NETWORK COMPUTING GIVES THE APPLIANCE A GLOWING REVIEW “Delivers tough anti-spam and anti-virus measures and, presents them in one of the best web management interfaces we’ve yet seen.”

DELPHI TAKES A TECHNOLOGY SNAPSHOT OF THE APPLIANCE ".. this is a raising of the bar for both the messaging appliance market in general (tending to single tasks, and thus an army of appliances in the rack), and Clearswift as a company."

THE SUNDAY TIMES - Tech Track 100 The Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track 100 ranks Britain's fastest-growing private technology companies by sales over a two-year period, between 2002 and 2004. In September 2005, Clearswift was named as one of the top ten fastest growing private companies in Britain in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100. Clearswift was recognized as the ninth fastest-growing private technology company by sales growth in the annual table.

SC MAGAZINE REVIEWS MIMEsweeper for SMTP IN POLICY MANAGEMENT "MIMEsweeper is a powerful and complex filter and is aimed at larger organizations, which must meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements."

NEW!! ... MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance MICROSITE
Check out our one-stop-shop appliance microsite which tells you everything you need to know about the new solution - which model would suit you? what's this new SpamLogic technology? and more importantly, gives you exclusive previews of the new Graphical Interface.

NEW!! ... WHITE PAPER FROM NANCY FLYNN - EMAIL POLICY BEST PRACTICE
Implementing & Enforcing E-Mail Policies to Maximize Regulatory Compliance

NEW!! ... THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO EMAIL SECURITY
Every business depends on email and the Internet. But reading the press, it's tempting to believe that the risks sometimes outweight the benefits. Viruses, phishing, spyware, spam, trojans, worms, pornography, hate mail and the like are presented, particularly by the press, as some sort of remorseless digital plague sent down from on high to damage businesses everywhere.

THREATLAB

SPAM INDEX Spammers increase sophistication to evade detection

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GLOBAL EVENTS

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LETTERS & QUESTIONS

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This newsletter is published quarterly and is edited by Isabelle Duarte, Director of Communications at Clearswift.