Sybari Secures Hosted Service Solutions

East Northport, NY¯- November 15, 2004 - ¯ Sybari Software Inc., a global provider of antivirus, antispam and content- filtering security software products, provides companies offering hosted service solutions for messaging and collaboration with security products to protect networks against the threat of viruses, spam, and malicious code. Companies such as Intermedia.NET and Cobweb, Microsoft's 2004 EMEA Hosting Service Provider of the Year have already chosen Sybari's solutions to ensure that their hosted solutions remain secure and available at all times.

"Some exceptionally dangerous virus outbreaks have also led more companies to consider hosted email over the past year," said Marcel Nienhuis, market analyst at The Radicati Group. "Radicati research shows that the result has been a growth of around 10% in the number of business mailboxes running on Exchange servers hosted by outside firms"

Increased demand on network bandwidth, new legislation requirements, complex messaging solutions and spam and virus attacks have made hosted messaging and collaboration solutions increasingly popular with companies around the world. Hosted services provide enterprises with access to essential applications, business information and related services without the added cost and impact on the corporate IT infrastructure. According to The Radicati Group, the Hosted e-mail market alone currently accounts for about 67% of all e-mail accounts worldwide and the installed based of ISP/Web mail accounts is expected to reach 973 million mailboxes in 2008, up from 690 million today.

"Antivirus protection is one of the elements that can truly make e-mail communication flawless. If our customers are not protected, it impacts their productivity and might become a serious issue for the provider. Sybari's Antigen is easy to handle and filters better than all of the other products that we tried," said Alexander Yevelev, Director of Sales and Marketing at Intermedia.NET. "We provide Sybari's Antigen to all of our Hosted Exchange customers and they are very happy with the protection and content-filtering it offers."

Outsourcing mission critical systems such as e-mail and collaboration applications is a huge decision for companies, making security and stability considerations essential. Since network security remains a major concern for companies, outsourced solution providers need to offer best of breed antivirus and antispam protection.

"The security and integrity of our customers' data is of absolute importance at Cobweb. Sybari's Antigen provides both Cobweb and its customer's peace of mind via the comprehensive anti-virus protection offered by Sybari's multiple scan engine approach. Antigen is an integral element in both Cobweb's Hosted Microsoft Exchange and Windows SharePoint Services solutions," said Michael Frisby, business development director at Cobweb.

Sybari's Antigen for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Microsoft SharePoint, SMTP Gateway, and Microsoft Live Communications Server offer a pre-emptive line of defense from propagating e-mail viruses, worms, and malicious code. Antigen is a server-level antivirus solution that delivers comprehensive protection through a multiple scan engine approach, as well as advanced content-filtering capabilities. Sybari's Advanced Spam Manager and Advanced Spam Defense are enterprise class antispam and content-filtering solutions designed specifically to assist administrators in reducing the impact of spam messages and unsolicited mail traffic on their networks.

"As IT costs rise and budgets are reduced, companies are increasingly looking to outsourced solutions for messaging and collaboration servers. These hosted solution providers need to ensure that networks remain secure and that companies have 24/7 access to their mission critical data and systems," said Tom Buoniello, vice president of product management at Sybari Software, Inc. "With Sybari's award winning antivirus and content filtering capabilities, we are able to protect hosted solution sysfems from potentially harmful viruses, malicious code and undesirable content." ABOUT SYBARI As a global provider of antivirus, antispam and content-filtering security software products, our server-based products are used in electronic messaging and collaboration environments to protect organizations from viruses, spam and the transmission of other forms of inappropriate content. These threats compromise the integrity of networks, endanger mission-critical applications and information, absorb network and human resources and expose organizations to increased expenses and other liabilities. Our products integrate multiple third-party antivirus and antispam technologies with content-filtering and policy enablement tools to strengthen the security of complex electronic messaging and collaboration systems. Sybari solutions are distributed in more than 50 countries via Sybari's worldwide locations and distribution network. Headquartered in New York, Sybari has additional operations throughout the Americas, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. # # #

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