Publishing House Safeguards Customer Data And Slashes Spam Email Volume by 72 Percent with Axway’s MailGate™

MailGate Delivers Significant ROI for Hay House Inc.Through Increased Employee Productivity and Decreased Hardware Costs

PHOENIX, Aug. 18, 2009 – Publishing Company Hay House Inc. has implemented Axway’s award-winning MailGate™ product for comprehensive email security. MailGate effectively blocks spam and email threats, protects sensitive customer data and cuts down on hardware costs. By eliminating spam email delivery, MailGate reduces Hay House’s email volumes by 72 percent, dramatically decreasing storage costs and increasing employee productivity.

Hay House is a mid-sized publishing house selling books, audios, and videos to 35 countries around the world, featuring such noted authors as Deepak Chopra, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Suze Orman and Ben Stein. The company’s high volume of spam emails posed virus risks, took up unnecessary storage space and negatively impacted employee productivity.  Executive inboxes received 500 spam messages daily and only 10 percent of employees deleted old emails regularly, slowing network performance and increasing hardware operational costs.  Additionally, Hay House employees handled book orders with billing information which could expose the organization to customer data leakage risks.

Hay House’s primary selection criteria for email security solutions were ease of use and effectiveness.  MailGate’s end-to-end security – with strong inbound spam protection and granular outbound message filtering – made it stand out from competitive products.

 “The return on our investment has been remarkable and MailGate has served as a critical component of our antivirus and data protection strategies,” said Mike Fishell, director of information technology for Hay House. “Because of MailGate, the company can focus on growing its business instead of managing spam or worrying about customer data leakage. The cost and time savings are invaluable.”

A key feature of MailGate is its ability to prevent personal and sensitive information from accidentally leaving the network.  After implementing MailGate, Hay House established an email security policy that routed all email through the product to ensure that no unauthorized billing information is transmitted outside the organization.

“Every organization relies on email on a daily basis. Not deploying an email security solution really isn’t an option in this day and age,” said Joe Fisher, vice president of product and solution marketing, Axway.  “Axway is committed to delivering state-of-the-art email security solutions, so organizations like Hay House can rely on us to keep them secure far into the future.”

To learn more about Axway’s email security solutions, visit http://www.axway.com/emailsecurity.

Related link: Axway Extends MailGate with Virtualized Offering.

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About Axway
Axway recently merged with Tumbleweed Communications to become the leading global provider of multi-enterprise solutions and infrastructure, serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries.  Axway speeds and secures business interactions – both inside and outside the enterprise – by optimizing the way information is moved, managed and protected.  Powered by Synchrony™, a multi-enterprise service-oriented framework, Axway’s customers can “start anywhere, use anything” to complement their existing infrastructures.  Axway’s comprehensive offering includes: business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions.  Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings.  Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway’s global presence spans 20 countries.

About Hay House
Hay House, Inc., is the international leader in self-help and motivational publishing, featuring books, audios, card decks, and sidelines by more than 250 authors. Smiley Books, Princess Books, and New Beginnings Press are imprints of Hay House, Inc. We are distributors for Amber Allen Press and Hansen House. Please visit us at www.hayhouse.com.

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