From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Today we released a story about one of our customers that needs strong and powerful email security.  PGT Trucking uses email as a vital part of their business operation; therefore, spam filtering and business continuity were key factors in selecting an outsourced email security provider.

“We needed to get rid of the spam clogging our email system, both for internal operations as well as critical outward facing customer relations,” said Ed Patterson, Network Administrator at PGT Trucking. “With Mailprotector, not only have we been able to effectively take care of the spam problem, but we’ve reduced the costly resources required to deal with it, including management, hardware and software. Mailprotector’s ‘Scan and Forward’ functionality also gave us a powerful tool for business continuance, providing email recovery in the event our Exchange* server goes down.”

You can read the entire press release at: PGT Trucking Press Release

Antivirus in the Cloud – Panda Cloud Antivirus

by Ben Hathaway on April 29, 2009 · 0 comments

PandaLab’s released its free cloud-based antivirus thin-client to public beta today.

It consists of a lightweight antivirus agent that is connected in real-time to PandaLabs’ Collective Intelligence servers to protect faster against the newest malware variants while barely impacting PC performance.

This is a fresh approach to antivirus software. They built a lightweight antivirus application instead of the usual antivirus application that hogs system resources in order to protect your computer. However, the lightweight feature is not the most intriguing part of this but rather the cloud-based approach. This allows your system to always be protecting against the latest threats.

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