Emeryville, Calif. — August 7, 2007 — Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of policy-centric solutions for securing and managing business communications, today announced the availability of Sentrion Message Processor (MP), a next-generation messaging security appliance. Sentrion MP is the first high-performance appliance that offers all-in-one protection for both inbound and outbound messages obsolescing single-purpose Messaging Gateways that only protect companies from inbound threats, or only manage company policies related to outbound messaging. With Sentrion MP, organizations can dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of securing and managing corporate email by enabling both inbound and outbound message protection in a single appliance without degrading message processing performance.

"It is important for organizations to establish policies and controls that meet their stated business and regulatory risk-profile" said Eric Ouellet Research Vice President with Gartner. "High performance in-line policy monitoring and enforcement on all channels, including messaging increases an organizations security posture by reducing or eliminating incidents of accidental or intentional disclosure."

In order to comply with corporate governance and regulatory requirements, businesses must begin integrating both the monitoring and enforcement processes of their business messaging policies. To effectively accomplish this, their bi-directional messaging solution needs to sit in-line on the network and enforce policies without impacting end users, workflow, or messaging network performance."

"By including comprehensive protection for inbound and outbound messages in a single appliance, Sentrion is making it easier and less costly to secure and manage high-volume email communications - while eliminating the performance bottlenecks associated with policy enforcement on outbound messages," said Donald J. Massaro, president and CEO at Sendmail.

The First All-In-One High Performance Platform for All Inbound and Outbound Message Processing

Sentrion MP is a purpose-built, high-performance in-line appliance specifically designed to help companies secure and manage their inbound and outbound messaging requirements in one box.

• Integrated inbound and outbound mail gateway management, encryption and security in a single appliance
• Inbound message scanning, filtering and authentication
• Outbound content monitoring and security enforcement with compliance workflows and bundled policies
• The ability to add new applications that enforce pre-defined roles, reporting templates and industry-specific vertical applications
• Intra-company mail routing and off-loading of Microsoft Exchange environments
• No performance degradation on inbound or outbound messaging flow

• A high-performance industry-standard Sendmail Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with intelligent Gateway Connection Controls offers high throughput and intelligent message routing, and secures, monitors and regulates message traffic. Domain Keys Identified Email (DKIM), the only IETF-approved standard for email authentication.
• Centralized policy management and a highly intelligent policy engine are delivered with flexible clustering support to enable policy management and enforcement for organizations of any size. Centrally manage systems that are distributed by country, region, business unit, and more. With deep, in-line content and inspection, the policy engine satisfies the requirements of the most complex and regulated businesses.
• With highly accurate, out-of-the-box policies for compliance workflows, acceptable use, and confidential information protection, organizations gain immediate enforcement of policies based on industry best practices for Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, CA SB136, HIPAA, ITAR, Explicit Language, PCI, and more.
• Intelligent policy-based and clientless email encryption protects confidential information without impacting existing businesses processes and is completely transparent to end-users. The fully integrated encryption architecture reduces the costly administrative and deployment issues of having separate encryption and decryption servers while the Identity-Based Encryption technology greatly reduces the complexity of key management.
• A dashboard with workflow and incident remediation offers integrated and centralized reporting for incident trends and compliance. Detailed drill-down reports provide greater incident and attack analysis, and remediation workflows are based on best practices for incident responses.
• Role-based access controls give individual business stakeholders custom reporting views, and provide for a collaboration workflow among functional groups.

Improve Inbound and Outbound Messaging Security? Without Degrading Performance

To safeguard brand, reputation and competitive edge, companies must begin establishing a messaging risk-profile that is best suited to their specific policies and business environment. A key influence on the success of an effective messaging initiative is the implementation of technology that enables companies to manage bi-directional messaging policies to protect from growing outside threats and to prevent inadvertent or intentional leakage of confidential information through outbound messaging without degrading message processing performance. Current outbound message monitoring solutions cause significant performance bottlenecks, and Sentrion MP eliminates those existing bottlenecks.

Sentrion's in-line Message Processing delivers enhanced messaging security without impacting network performance. It provides large enterprises with protection from inbound threats at the messaging gateway, while monitoring and enforcing outbound messages for corporate governance, regulatory compliance, privacy violations, and data leak prevention. Sentrion MP provides bi-directional message inspection and protection where over 80% of data loss, compliance violations, and threats occur within corporate email messaging environments.