VeriSign Extends Email Security Service to Europe, Enabling Enterprises to Combat Spam, Viruses, and Email-Borne Attacks

VeriSign Extends Email Security Service to Europe, Enabling Enterprises to Combat Spam, Viruses, and Email-Borne Attacks

Service Uses Multi-stage Filtering and Virus Scanning to Protect Enterprise Email Infrastructure

GENEVA, Switzerland, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks, today announced that it has extended its Email Security Service to provide support for European businesses of all sizes, allowing European organizations to combat threats posed to email infrastructure by spam and email-borne viruses. Available in North America since June 2004, VeriSign(R) Email Security Service provides enterprises with a cost-effective, service-oriented approach to eliminating spam and viruses. Email Security Service delivers a measurable and immediate return-on- investment by improving IT and employee productivity, while reducing bandwidth and storage costs and increasing email reliability.

VeriSign Email Security Service is easy to deploy and provides customers with high levels of availability and accuracy. It provides automatic, rapid updates of heuristics and signatures, which greatly reduces the administrative burden on the IT staff. This service leverages the distributed, scalable and secure infrastructure that VeriSign operates, to deliver 99.999 percent network uptime.

Email plays a vital role in day-to-day business communications. However, spam, email-borne viruses and worms threaten the gains received by conducting business via the Internet. VeriSign Email Security Service offers the following capabilities to eliminate email-based threats and help European enterprises achieve high levels of productivity:

-- Triple-Layer Spam Filtering -- Custom blacklists and spam filtering,
fingerprinting and heuristics with over 10,000 rules results in high
detection rates with a minimum of false positives
-- Multi-Engine Virus Scanning -- Regularly updated scanning using three
anti-virus engines to deliver early warning of viruses and effective
blocking of malicious emails
-- Policy Enforcement -- Domain-level filtering of content and
attachments for effective enforcement of both inbound and outbound
corporate email policies
-- Disaster Recovery -- Automatically queue email on the VeriSign
Network to be delivered later, in the event a corporate email server
is unavailable
-- Quarantine Access -- End-user ability to view suspicious email to
determine its legitimacy

Other enhancements to the VeriSign Email Security Service include:

-- Simplified Administration -- Rich reporting tools, group filtering
and user management through directory integration to minimize
administrative tasks
-- Powerful Content and Policy Filtering -- Offers administrators the
ability to block malicious content sneaking in through archived
attachments (.zip, .tar, etc.) by performing a deep scan of the files
within the archives
-- Preemptive Virus Protection -- Offered by placing suspicious emails
on "virus hold" until the anti-virus engines are updated with the
latest patches to remove the virus



"The extension of this service to the European market will help enterprises continue to enjoy productivity gains from email communication under threat from spam and viruses," said Souheil Badran, vice president, EMEA, VeriSign. "With a service-oriented approach, enterprises can easily obtain comprehensive email protection in a matter of hours, without deploying any software or hardware. As security related events continue to rise, VeriSign recognizes and will provide advanced features and functionalities for customers to stay ahead of email threats."

VeriSign Email Security Service is available in the EMEA market starting today. Enterprises are invited to take advantage of a 30-day free trial of the service. For more information on the service, please go to: http://www.verisign.ch/products-services/security-services/email- security/index.html .

About VeriSign

VeriSign, Inc. delivers intelligent infrastructure services that make the Internet and telecommunications networks more reliable and secure. Every day VeriSign helps thousands of businesses and millions of consumers conduct commerce and communications with confidence. Additional news and information about the company is available at www.verisign.com.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause VeriSign's actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others; the ability of VeriSign to successfully develop and market new services and customer acceptance of any new services, including VeriSign's Email Security Services; the risk that VeriSign's announced strategic relationships may not result in additional products, services, customers and revenues; increased competition and pricing pressures. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in VeriSign's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. VeriSign undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.


Source: VeriSign, Inc.

CONTACT: Media Relations: Brendan P. Lewis, +1-650-426-4470, or
brlewis@verisign.com, or Investor Relations: Tom McCallum, +1-650-426-3744, or
tmccallum@verisign.com, both of VeriSign, Inc.

Web site: http://www.verisign.com/


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