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SurfControl Extends Leadership In Delivering Unified Internet Protection With SC Magazine Award For 'Best Anti-Spam Solution'

  SurfControl E-mail Filter Honored with an SC Magazine Reader's Trust Award

    RSA CONFERENCE 2005/SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- SurfControl,
the world leader in enterprise web and e-mail filtering, was recognized last
night by the readers of SC Magazine -- the IT security industry's preeminent
magazine -- with a 2005 Reader's Trust Award for "Best Anti-Spam Solution."
This award builds on SurfControl's position as the number one web and e-mail
filtering company and further illustrates the market need for unified Internet
threat protection to safeguard organizations. SurfControl keeps businesses up
and running, helping them regain control of their Internet and e-mail systems
while ensuring regulatory compliance, information confidentiality and employee
productivity.
    "Our customers, and the readers of SC Magazine, have sent a signal to the
market that SurfControl E-mail Filter is the global product of choice for
protecting today's e-mail threats," said Steve Purdham, CEO of SurfControl.
"SurfControl solutions continuously filter an organization's entire threat
environment -- Web and e-mail -- for known, unknown, internal and targeted
attacks to protect their people, systems, and information."
    SurfControl E-mail Filter provides customers with the most comprehensive
protection against spam, spyware, phishing, and blended threats. SurfControl's
enhanced Anti-Spam Agent employs e-mail protection techniques including
digital fingerprints, heuristics, adaptive reasoning, and lexi-rules. The
solution works in conjunction with SurfControl Web Filter to protect
businesses against known and emerging Internet threats, by accessing the
company's comprehensive Content Database -- which tracks more than nine
million URLs.
    The Reader's Trust Awards are voted on by the readers of the USA,
UK/Europe and Asia Pacific editions of SC Magazine. The awards were announced
last night at the annual gala dinner, hosted in conjunction with the RSA
Conference 2005 in San Francisco, Calif.  SC Magazine is a leading computer
security publication with nearly 100,000 readers worldwide. Each year, the
magazine asks subscribers to vote for the computer security solutions they use
and prefer.  The awards highlight the information security industry's best
products and services and acknowledge excellence for corporate achievement.

    About SurfControl
    SurfControl plc, is a world leading Internet security company that stops
threats for companies of all sizes. Our enterprise Web and E-mail filtering
solutions handle existing and emerging threats by continuous attention to
quality and innovation, helping customers manage threats such as spyware,
phishing, spam, gambling and porn in many forms.  SurfControl is the
industry's only complete solution to manage Internet threats with high quality
multilayered solutions. SurfControl technology protects all points of entry,
and every way employees use the Internet for business -- Instant Messaging,
Web, e-mail and peer-to-peer, whether in the office or remotely.  It also
works on the most popular platforms they work on -- Microsoft Exchange Server
and ISA Server 2004, Juniper, Cisco, CheckPoint, BlueCoat and many more.
    The company's products and technology are used by more than 20,000
customers worldwide, including many of the world's largest corporations.
SurfControl employs approximately 500 people in offices across the United
States, Europe and Asia/Pacific. For further information and news on
SurfControl, please visit http://www.surfcontrol.com/.


SOURCE SurfControl plc




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