VeriSign Extends Email Security Service to Europe

VeriSign, Inc. (www.verisign.com), a 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® 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

"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.