FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 2006

Australia's first complete online business email archiving solution launched

Leading Australian technology companies MailGuard, Redmap and YourASP join to offer CaptureMail for MailGuard

STAND No. P47 - CeBIT 2006

MailGuard, Australia's first and leading provider of managed email anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering and email archiving solutions for the business market, has launched its latest email managed service at CeBIT 2006 - CaptureMail for MailGuard.

MailGuard has joined with Redmap, Australian developer of world leading software which captures, manages and protects emails and other electronic documents, to offer CaptureMail for MailGuard.

MailGuard has worked with Redmap to develop its fully managed online email management and archiving service. "We have simplified email archiving and management for our MailGuard customers," said Andrew Johnson, MailGuard's Director of Marketing. "Today, organisations not only face threats from viruses and Web abuse, they also face the complicated task of achieving and maintaining compliance with the growing number of regulations now governing their business operations."

MailGuard believes it is Australia's most simple and cost effective solution for archiving a company's emails coupled with a simple and secure online search and retrieval portal. Redmap's technology automatically captures email from MailGuard's servers before it reaches a company's mail server and places it in a secure management application, enabling all emails, along with content classification, to be archived.

"Our secure email archive seamlessly integrates with a company's network structure and readily conforms to a company's data protection and network storage infrastructure, said Kurt Carlsen, Redmap's Sales Director." Additionally, CaptureMail securely stores all of a company's emails in MailGuard's Australian data centre acting as a full offsite backup for a company's email activity which effectively provides an offsite disaster recovery solution."

The web based service requires no hardware to upgrade, software to manage or backups to execute and allows organisations to search and retrieve emails at the click of a button through a secure web management console from anywhere in the world. Messages are searched in several ways, including via content, attachments and date ranges.

"Today, email is the default store of a company's intellectual property. People in businesses acquire information, manage projects, make promises, sell products and perform various business transactions all through email," said Carlsen. "However, with the power and productivity that email brings to businesses, companies seldom protect their data from deletion or modification - and often it is very difficult to find the information that is needed. CaptureMail for MailGuard is the answer."

"CaptureMail provides a solution that archives all incoming and outgoing email and allows individuals, group managers and administrators to search and access the email store. And once an organisation implements CaptureMail, it simply receives related reports on emails and attachments being stored in a company's online archive and accesses the data as needed," said Johnson.

For small businesses, electronic document retention is a necessity to avoid legal nightmares following the introduction of legislation both globally and nationally. This includes the much publicised American Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley European regulations such as European Union Data Protection Directive and Basel II. Closer to home, in February this year, an amendment to the Victorian Crimes Act was passed by the Lower House where those convicted of intentionally destroying documents to prevent evidence being used in court face up to five years imprisonment) passed the Lower House.

Today, emails are sent with little thought and by anyone in the company but carry the same weight as a letter from the CEO on company letterhead. Legislative changes mean that emails must be retained for a minimum of seven years and whilst accountability rests with Company Directors and Officers, the responsibility rests with individual employees. "This is an untenable situation," says Johnson.

CaptureMail for MailGuard ensures that when people leave an organisation the intellectual property stored in their emails is not deleted. CaptureMail automatically scales to meet the needs of any organisation whether there are five email addresses or 100,000. At the business process level, CaptureMail provides an audit trail which enables businesses to track all email correspondence and ensure that vital information is not deleted.

Companies that have trialled the service over the last three months have reported high levels of satisfaction. CaptureMail costs approximately $5.00 per user plus a per GByte storage online storage fee per month, dependent on company user numbers. MailGuard has a national partner community that takes its services to the market.

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Issued by Rivers of Communication
On behalf of MailGuard

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