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Iomega Announces New Email and IM Security and Compliance Services for Small and Medium Companies

(Oct 30, 2007)-- Iomega Corporation announced an expansion of its OfficeScreen managed services to include messaging security and management solutions for instant messaging (IM), email and IM archiving and email encryption. With these new services powered by Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions, Iomega is now bringing additional best-in-class enterprise-level managed solutions at economical costs to small and mid-sized businesses.

Iomega's new OfficeScreen managed services for archiving messages, encrypting emails and securing and managing instant messaging follow the June launch of Iomega's OfficeScreen Managed Email Security and Spam Defense Powered by Postini. Iomega now offers SMBs a full suite of Postini security and compliance solutions.

While IM has become a standard business tool, only about 25% of companies manage and protect its use. IM usage is frequently under the radar because it is easy for employees to download public IM clients without the approval or knowledge of a company's IT team. Publicly available IM clients are designed to find a way through firewalls, making them difficult to control, secure and manage. Iomega OfficeScreen Managed IM Security Powered by Postini is an enterprise-quality SMB service, providing threat protection, usage visibility and policy management for compliance and security of Instant Messaging. OfficeScreen IM Security stops IM-borne threats from reaching the customer's network and enables the monitoring and archiving of IM, resulting in increased security, productivity and compliance.

Most businesses know they need to archive their critical email and IM for compliance and potential legal discovery, but they struggle with managing and keeping the data from clogging primary communications systems. Iomega OfficeScreen Managed Message Archiving Powered by Postini is a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy, on-demand service that helps businesses improve mail server performance and quickly implement data retention strategies for compliance and rapid discovery. OfficeScreen Message Archiving is an enterprise-quality service that manages the entire back-end storage infrastructure, simply scales with any deployment, and provides intuitive, web-based tools to help search, recover and manage relevant message data.

While email is the preferred method of communication in today's business environment, most transmissions of confidential, personal or sensitive information are unprotected. This is because the securing of email transactions has traditionally been difficult for email administrators to manage, involving complex configuration of encryption keys and mail servers. However, industry regulations, business requirements and privacy policies now require organizations to secure email with encryption. Iomega OfficeScreen Managed Email Encryption Powered by Postini offers a range of simple to manage, enterprise-quality SMB services enabling automatic or selective message encryption based on a company's policies. With Iomega's managed service, encryption policies are continuously and automatically enforced and transparent to users. As an on-demand service, OfficeScreen Email Encryption requires no new software, hardware, or maintenance. Administrators can easily and dynamically set policies based on users, content, or recipients. OfficeScreen Email Encryption makes automatic, real-time encrypted communications over the internet easy and affordable for small and mid-sized companies.

Today more than 93% of all electronic mail traffic consists of spam, malicious threats, or offensive material. Businesses are under siege from increasingly sophisticated networks of criminal hackers, spammers, and phishers. In addition, companies now have to manage email communications to protect intellectual property (IP), be proactive against lawsuits, and ensure compliance with regulatory mandates, like the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), state information privacy laws, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Iomega's Postini-powered OfficeScreen solutions are fully featured versions of Postini's security and compliance solutions, which are designed to ensure that a company's electronic communications are free from threats and junk mail, plus secured and stored for compliance and simple discovery. These services are designed to block spam, viruses, phishing, and email threats before they reach a company's email gateway, and provide sophisticated message management and policy enforcement through one simple web-based interface -- enterprise features now available to SMBs with Iomega's OfficeScreen managed services.

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