SC Magazine Recognizes Axway and Tumbleweed
for Innovation in Email Security
Acknowledged as Industry Innovator for Data Protection,
Axway’s MailGate Product Provides Strategic Email Security
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – February 3, 2009 – Axway, the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, today announced SC Magazine named the company an Industry Innovator for Email Security for the Tumbleweed MailGate email security product’s strong data protection capabilities.
SC Magazine, a leading publication for IT security professionals, scoured the industry for aggressively customer-driven companies that develop products to best suit customer needs. In addition, chosen innovators had a clear product roadmap and made product modifications as needed to stay ahead of the curve.
Peter Stephenson of SC Labs selected Tumbleweed, now part of Axway, as an Industry Innovator in Email Security, specifically for the MailGate product’s strong data protection capabilities. MailGate, a comprehensive, high-performance email security solution, can process close to two million messages per hour. Through its unrivaled content filtering, policy management, anti-virus, anti-spam, and “intelligent” edge defense, MailGate protects against fast-moving virus outbreaks, botnets, spam, and denial-of-service attacks – eliminating up to 90 percent of email traffic before it enters the network.
“Customers' biggest drivers include compliance and risk management. In that regard, email poses a significant risk because of what it can do and how it is used,” said Peter Stephenson of SC Labs, SC Magazine’s testing facility for product reviews. “Tumbleweed tries to get IT managers to think more strategically and tries to leverage other ecosystems within the enterprise, not just email.”
As spam levels continue to rise – expected to reach nearly 95% in 2009 – Axway has maintained a strong focus on protecting customers from inbound and outbound threats since its acquisition of Tumbleweed in September 2008. In addition to protection against growing spam threats, Axway’s MailGate product prevents accidental email data leakage, which recent industry reports estimate is now up almost 50%.
“Now that Tumbleweed is part of Axway, we’re focusing an even larger organization to protect corporations against spam and outbound data leakage -- accolades like this emphasize our commitment to our customers,” said Joe Fisher, senior vice president of product and solutions marketing at Axway. “As leaders in email security, we are dedicated to developing superior, comprehensive products to effectively manage and protect business-critical communications.”
SC Magazine’s Industry Innovators for Data Protection: Email Security article appears here:
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Email-security-Tumbleweed-Communications-Axway/article/121854/
For more information on Axway’s email security solutions, visit: http://www.tumbleweed.com/products/mailgate/index.html
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About Axway
Axway is one of the leading global providers of collaborative business solutions. Axway establishes the dynamic connections -- within and among enterprises -- that make companies easier to do business with. Spanning all industries, over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries depend on Axway to manage and control their business-critical information in motion --improving value chain efficiency, regulatory compliance and quality of service. Built on a service-oriented architecture, Axway's Synchrony solutions feature a highly flexible integration and B2B framework, business and technical analytics, and professional services. Axway also offers customized solutions for the financial services, life sciences and automotive industries. Many of Axway's solutions are available in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. A subsidiary of Sopra Group, SA, Axway is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed Communications corp., now part of Axway, is an industry leader in managed file transfer, email security and identity validation, providing enterprise-class solutions to organizations of all sizes. Tumbleweed’s innovative products enable organizations to effectively manage and protect business-critical internet communications, with capabilities that span secure file transfer, encryption, data loss prevention, and email security. Tumbleweed has more than 3,500 customers worldwide, including blue-chip companies across an array of industries such as Technology, Retail, Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Telecom, Energy, and the U.S. Government. The world’s most security conscious organizations rely upon Tumbleweed technology including Bank of America Securities, JPMorgan Chase & Co., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Our award-winning products build on 15 years of R&D and 31 security patents in the U.S. alone – many of which are licensed by other security vendors. More information can be found at www.tumbleweed.com.
Tumbleweed is a registered trademark of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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