Clearswift, the MIMEsweeper™ Company, welcomes you to the fifth 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.

DATA LOSS PREVENTION
Jon Lee describes the new corporate priority.

SPAM-ADVERTISED DOMAIN NAMES AND THE SURBL
John Graham-Cummings investigates why stopping spam is a complicated business.

RISE OF THE 'BUSINESS WORM'?
For some time now, Kaspersky Lab has been tracking a shift in virus writers' tactics. David Emm investigates the rise of the localized attack.

MIMEsweeper EMAIL MANAGED SERVICE
Clearswift has launched a new managed email service that deals with spam, viruses, spyware, phishing and denial of service attacks.

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.
Isabelle Duarte explains how the Clearswift email use survey shows employees believe CEOs should be very concerned about email use

>> DELPHI REVIEW OF SPAMLOGIC "Spending much time/money/effort is not what your business should focus on - let a solution using a modern, multi-layered approach, such as SpamLogic do this work for you."

>> BUTLER REVIEW OF MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance "In our opinion, MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance is a feature-rich appliance that enables organisations to protect one of their most valuable assets - the knowledge capital contained within e-mails"

>> PC PRO REVIEW OF MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance CS500 "Reporting is another impressive feature, as a raft of predefi ned reports is provided, which can be scheduled to run at regular intervals with output emailed to selected users."

NEW!! ... MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.2 Now available in English or Japanese, MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.2 stops all email threats at all gateways, inbound and outbound. Organizations of all sizes can gain comprehensive security that can be managed and updated simply and centrally.

>> SC MAGAZINE RATES MANAGED SERVICE AS "BEST BUY" Verdict: Top-class filtering and policy management as a managed service.” Overall rating: ***** Best Buy.

NEW!! ... MIMEsweeper EMAIL MANAGED SERVICE Total Email Security without the stress MIMEsweeper Email Managed Service dramatically simplifies your email security, making it easy to deploy, manage and update – because there’s no hardware or software to install and maintain.

NEW!! ... SPYWARE WHITE PAPER
Spyware is big business, now, for both attackers and defenders. We examine the types of spyware and illustrate these with recent case histories. Finally, we identify the multi-layered defenses needed to contain the threat.

NEW!! ... THREATLAB RETROSPECTIVE 2005 - "Under the radar"
The defining feature of the malware landscape of 2005 (reflected in the title of this year’s paper) is the marked tendency for the release of self-limiting malware and rootkits, so as to stay under the radar of anti-virus companies. Some malware releases were purposely designed to attempt to stretch anti-virus analysis teams beyond their limits, by releasing variants on an hourly basis.

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Update from the CEO, Jon Lee As you may have noticed, things have been extremely busy at Clearswift over the last few months. >> MORE

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