MessageGate Press Release Archives

11/13/2007	MessageGate Launches Email Governance Platform Version 4.3 Upgrade Updated Platform Reduces Exchange 2007 Migration Pressure; Provides Better Email Management across the Corporate Network
8/8/2007	MessageGate and Enterprise Strategy Group Outline Necessary Balance Between Practical Email Governance and Employee Productivity ESG Podcast Provides Email Control Considerations That Keep Email Collaboration Channels Open
6/18/2007	Preparing for Litigation Identified as Top Email Governance Driver MessageGate Survey Reveals Top Factors and Responsibility Holders for Enterprise Email Governance
6/4/2007	Enterprise Strategy Group Reports on Intelligent Message Management from MessageGate Research Outlines Improved Governance and Risk Mitigation in Complex Messaging Environments
5/15/2007	MessageGate Named 2007 American Business Awards Finalist MessageGate Email Governance Platform Selected as Finalist for Best New Product Category
5/14/2007	MessageGate Uncovers Critical Information Security Concerns in Latest Market Study Report Identifies Top Five Trends Shaping Information Security
5/8/2007	MessageGate Aces InfoWorld Product Review MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance Platform Receives “Very Good” Rating Emphasizing Ease-of-Use and Value
5/8/2007	MessageGate Aces InfoWorld Product Review MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance Platform Receives “Very Good” Rating Emphasizing Ease-of-Use and Value
3/19/2007	MessageGate Earns Certified Partner Status In Microsoft Partner Program MessageGate, Inc., a leader in practical e-mail governance, has earned certified status in Microsoft’s Partner Program. As a Microsoft Certified Partner, MessageGate has demonstrated expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven its ability to meet customer needs.
2/20/2007	MessageGate Archive Categorization Integrates with Symantec Enterprise Vault Message categorization dramatically reduces storage and retrieval costs throughout the enterprise
2/5/2007	MessageGate SenderConfirm Combats E-Mail Risk Through Employee Education More than 99 percent of e-mail misuse is accidental but exposes companies to great risk
1/22/2007	People Put That in E-mail?! MessageGate E-mail Activity Profile Highlights Need for Increased Employee Education around Appropriate E-mail Use
12/12/2006	MessageGate and NextSentry Partner to Provide Comprehensive Cross-Channel Data Protection Solution protects enterprise intellectual property and customer’s confidential data from insider threats and accidental breaches
12/5/2006	AXS-One, MessageGate to Offer Highest Level of Compliance, Archive Categorization and Policy Enforcement Sophisticated categorization technology enhances records compliance management capabilities just as changes to key regulations mandate faster and more cost-effective access to information
8/1/2006	Doug Walker Appointed to MessageGate Board of Directors Enterprise software veteran, co-founder and former CEO of WRQ brings wealth of experience in business building and technology
7/19/2006	MessageGate Launches v4.2 of Its Enterprise-Proven Email Governance Software Latest release includes Windows® support, intelligent archiving features, and advanced management and reporting
7/17/2006	MessageGate 4.1 Delivers Enhanced Email Compliance & Categorization Sophisticated Analysis and Profiling Techniques Reduce Risk and Improve Email Efficiency
4/17/2006	MessageGate Named "Cool Vendor" By Leading Analyst Firm Selected vendors for the "Cool Vendor" report considered innovative, impactful and triguing.
1/25/2006	MessageGate Expands Management Team Norbert Orth Joins as Vice President of Worldwide Sales
8/26/2005	Shaun Wolfe, Former WRQ President & CEO, Takes Helm at MessageGate Wolfe joins growing executive team of other Northwest tech veterans
8/2/2005	MessageGate Email Analysis Provides Real World Data for Risk Identification and Archiving Improvements MessageGate MAPs Guide Compliance and Information Security Efforts at Fortune 500 Firms
4/19/2005	MessageGate ECS 4.0 Sets New Standard for E-Mail Compliance and Categorization Service-Oriented Architecture Delivers Breakthrough Capabilities to Large Corporations
4/19/2005	MessageGate Increases Total Funding to $18 Million Additional $5 Million in Financing Includes New Investor Vulcan Capital
2/14/2005	Sun Microsystems Announces Significant Security Enhancements to Sun Java System Communications Suite Enhanced Protocol and Regulatory Compliance Support Address Growing Concerns Over Industry Vulnerabilities
2/2/2005	WSA Names MessageGate "Most Promising New Technology" Finalist Company Recognized for Innovation and Excellence in Technology for Second Consecutive Year
11/15/2004	MessageGate and IMLogic Announce Integrated Compliance Solution for Email and Instant Messaging Partnership Delivers Best-of-Breed Regulatory Compliance, Policy Enforcement, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam for Electronic Communications
8/3/2004	MessageGate Announces Intelligent Archiving Solution for Large Enterprise Policy-Based Offering Minimizes Storage Requirements and Extends Secure Messaging and Compliance Capabilities to Regulated Industries
7/27/2004	MessageGate Protects Enterprise Messaging Systems Against Identity and Phishing Attacks Intelligent Content and Header Analysis Provides Immediate Relief to Large Corporations
7/14/2004	MessageGate Launches Policy and Regulatory Audit Solution for Email New Audit Tool Assesses Liability, Delivers Actionable Intelligence; Allows for Risk Mitigation and Enforcement of Policies/Regulations
6/28/2004	MessageGate Launches Advisory Board Industry Veterans Bring Strategic Guidance and New Market Opportunities

MessageGate Article Archives

8/7/2008	With e-discovery laws in effect, companies find benefits to data archiving Chris Bradley, vice president of marketing at Bellevue, Wash.-based MessageGate, maker of messaging compliance software, says companies should consider adopting a preservation solution that classifies and categorizes data.
7/24/2008	MessageGate Wins PCNews Weekly's Editor's Choice Award The MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance package keeps your company informationally safe and it wins our Editor’s Choice Award for protection and functionality.
6/9/2008	Sleepless in Seattle If you have amongst the thousands of companies that have an e-mail archive and want to find a way to ensure that only business content gets in there or you want to better classify the data in the archive, MessageGate can help.
5/2/2008	The Daily and Ongoing Problems with Email Will Only Get Worse The ongoing daily problems with email promise to only get worse. According to email management provider MessageGate, a company with 5,000 email users can anticipate about 900 unauthorized releases of private information and 150 unwanted questionable emails daily. This equals wasted time and compromised security for both businesses and individuals.
5/2/2008	Gain Control Of Your Email Since email has become such an oft-used communication tool, IT managers spend a great deal of time and energy trying to determine proper archiving strategies and simply handling the thousands of messages that zip through the network every day.
4/28/2008	Shedding Light on Top Email Security Concerns Security threats and overflowing archives continue as top concerns for today’s IT professionals. Yet only 10 percent of enterprises effectively address these issues, leaving most in a seemingly never-ending battle for security and archive management.
3/21/2008	Green Agendas Continue To Influence Content Strategies A few weeks back, I wrote about the compliance aspects of the paperless office and e-mail archiving handled by MessageGate. While it wasn't the sexiest topic, it was a strong example of the reduction of paper and efficiency gains common across enterprises that drive an entire category of content management.
3/3/2008	How Will You Conquer E-mail Management? While the most publicized concerns of e-mail management revolve around regulatory compliance — most familiar are probably SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) — the biggest risk factor comes from inside an organization.
1/23/2008	ESI Come, ESI Go: Next Steps for E-Discovery How are companies addressing these challenges? Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for MessageGate, an e-mail-monitoring software vendor, says that companies aren't really sure what they should be doing. They look at the e-discovery rules from a legal perspective, but don't quite know how they should apply to their technology infrastructure. Pease notes that some companies have attempted to respond by limiting e- mail or getting rid of it altogether; others are adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
1/23/2008	MessageGate Enters UK Gradian Systems Ltd, the United Kingdom’s premier enterprise security solutions company specialising in the messaging market, has signed a strategic agreement with MessageGate, Inc. The agreement marks an exclusive UK distribution partnership between the two organizations and sets the scene for MessageGate availability in the UK. By partnering with Gradian, MessageGate will have access to Gradian’s superior sales, technical, training and services division, facilitating significant incremental market growth for both organizations.
1/23/2008	MessageGate partners with Gradian for UK operations MessageGate's Enterprise Email Governance software is claimed to prevent email breaches through an in-depth analysis of email usage patterns of the client. It also enhances archival and recovery capabilities with its categorisation features and helps companies cope with threats. It ensures proper email usage across the enterprise. Its products include MessageGate Activity Profile (MAP), MessageGate Policy Enforcement, MessageGate Archive Categorisation, and MessageGate Email Filtering.
1/21/2008	MessageGate appoints new CEO Norbert Orth has been promoted to the position of president and chief executive, replacing Shaun Wolfe who will become chairman. Orth, a former vice president at WRQ, previously served as vice president of sales and marketing at MessageGate.
1/21/2008	E-mail management/archiving strategies Eplica purchased MessageGate e-mail management software, including MessageGate Policy Enforcement and MessageGate E-mail Filtering. MessageGate’s Policy Enforcement tool archives e-mail and alerts Eplica’s marketing department if a company unit is trying to send out a large number of e-mails at once.
11/9/2007	Monitoring Your SME One final option for analyzing data traffic in and out of the company is MessageGate (www.messagegate.com), which specializes in email governance to make sure the most common portal for data leakage is controlled. MessageGate provides detailed reporting for email data leakage for specific kinds of content (such as financial reports) and by individual users.
10/4/2007	Practical Lessons: How to avoid costly email archiving mistakes The answer to bacn may be the same as the answer to spam, which is filtering. Several service providers claim to offer solutions, including Zantaz (now Autonomy), Fortiva, and MessageGate. According to MessageGate, 10 percent to 30 percent of email is bacn that winds up clogging the inbox and negatively impacting search results.
10/2/2007	The Biggest Email Archiving Errors The answer to bacn may be the same as the answer to spam, which is filtering. Several service providers claim to offer solutions, including Zantaz (now Autonomy), Fortiva, and MessageGate. According to MessageGate, 10 percent to 30 percent of email is bacn that winds up clogging the inbox and negatively impacting search results. Other vendors filter on image files or offer alternative products for in-house use.
9/24/2007	Social Networking: A Time Waster Or The Next Big Thing In Collaboration? And apparently the risks aren't great enough for enterprise security vendors to jump in. E-mail compliance vendor MessageGate could extend its platform to social networking, but it's not seeing a need yet, says VP of marketing Robert Pease.
9/19/2007	Executive Filtering for Content Filtering The Internet makes available an almost infinite array of product services and data resources. At the same time this access opens private users and companies to an onslaught of malicious threats and attacks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity and accessibility of their valuable data and resources.
9/19/2007	Choosing data classification tools and services to sell Choosing data classification tools and services to sell
8/13/2007	MessageGate and Enterprise Strategy Group Outline Necessary Balance Between Practical Email Governance and Employee Productivity MessageGate, Inc. released a podcast featuring Brian Babineau, a noted industry analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
7/25/2007	How Security Heads View New Technology Tech-security managers aren’t much fun. In most companies, they’re the guys who tell people they can’t use particular software or Web sites and set limits on how to use approved ones.
7/24/2007	Electronic Communication Supervision: There's a Better Way With Robert Pease, vice president of marketing at MessageGate. The compliance technology vendor recently commented on the NYSE/NASD proposed member guidance on supervision of electronic communication.
6/26/2007	LiveOffice, MessageGate Surveys Stress Importance of Preparing for e-Discovery Dubbed e-discovery, these recent changes are helping put even more pressure on IT managers to have a suitable enterprise email management solution in place. That's where MessageGate and LiveOffice enter the picture.
6/18/2007	MessageGate IDs Email Governance Driver MessageGate, Inc., a leader in practical email governance, has pinpointed the leading issues driving enterprise email governance and those primary corporate functions responsible for setting policies and procedures around email.
6/6/2007	Email ranks as most commonly requested form of electronic evidence, says Enterprise Strategy Group MessageGate is offering a free Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) white paper on its intelligent message management capabilities for improving governance and risk mitigation in modern business environments. The whitepaper addresses growing email concerns, including litigation e-discovery and security risks, positions MessageGate within the market, and outlines practical steps to ease email governance burdens.
5/24/2007	Shedding some light on information security MessageGate recently published a report entitled ‘Reshaping Information Security: The Convergence of Content & Security in Corporate Messaging.’ The report focused on understanding the impact that growing quantities of e-mail and deficiencies in end-user security are having on organizations’ ability to manage their messaging-related data. Here are a few highlights from this very interesting report:
5/22/2007	Five Trends Identified in Information Security, According to Report MessageGate Inc. has released a study that uncovers issues and concerns surrounding information security and IT governance for enterprise messaging.
5/21/2007	MessageGate Study Reveals Top Messaging Concerns According to a recent study commissioned by MessageGate, an e-mail governance solution provider, IT executives report two major messaging forces in their enterprise: a deluge of messages and security problems caused by end-user habits.
5/16/2007	MessageGate Uncovers Security Concerns The MessageGate® MarketInsight study, entitled “Reshaping Information Security: The Convergence of Content & Security in Corporate Messaging,” is based on multiple events in collaboration with The Roundtable Network where more than 40 executive-level participants discussed the challenges of email and messaging governance.
5/16/2007	MessageGate Uncovers Critical Information Security Concerns in Latest Market Study According to the report, IT and security professionals face two major forces related to enterprise messaging:
5/16/2007	IM Watch MessageGate Inc. has released their study that discusses top issues and concerns surrounding information security and IT governance for enterprise messaging. "Reshaping Information Security: The Convergence of Content & Security in Corporate Messaging," says that IT and security professionals face two major forces related to enterprise messaging: a content deluge due to growing volumes of electronic documents that must be retained, stored and made accessible for retrieval, and a security deficiency caused by ever worsening end-user habits as it relates to the use and misuse of enterprise messaging tools.
5/4/2007	Pulling Email Point Products Together “Every company has to meet a minimum threshold of governance as it relates to email,” says Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for MessageGate.
4/13/2007	CIO Magazine: Taming the Single Greatest Source of Business Risk "CIOs need to take practical steps toward e-mail governance," says Shaun Wolfe, president and CEO at MessageGate, Inc.
4/12/2007	MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance - Get a Grip on Communication Slips MessageGate's product takes a very sensible approach to this specific, albeit biggest, insider data-leak conduit. After operating in passive mode that captures all e-mail communications, you develop policies specific to your organization's culture and any problems uncovered.
4/2/2007	Rights of Passage Goldman Sachs, an institution that knows a little something about keeping a big deal quiet and blindsiding the competition, is implementing enterprise rights management (ERM) technology to manage how confidential information is used, moved and stored. So far, commercial banks have shown just modest interest in ERM, but the technology's potential as a compliance tool, plus its inherent security benefits, may yet convert them.
3/22/2007	Advice on Handling Threats from Emails Retaining any and all messages, notes email system vendor MessageGate, significantly complicates the discovery process for litigation purposes.
3/6/2007	Compliance: New Discoveries MessageGate, on the other hand, provides software that analyzes and archives company e-mail. It emphasizes organizing archives into categories. "Spam mail does not need to be stored in the same place as highly sensitive e-mails," says Wolfe.
2/26/2007	MessageGate’s SenderConfirm Combats EMail Risk MessageGate, Inc., a provider in email governance, has launched SenderConfirm. Through its interface, SenderConfirm was designed to deliver risk mitigation benefits and educate end users on proper usage while preventing potentially damaging employee actions, such as the transmission of social security numbers, release of internal correspondence, or the sending of sensitive information to personal email accounts.
2/26/2007	MessageGate, Symantec Integrate MessageGate, Inc., a leader in practical e-mail governance, today announced integration of MessageGate Archive Categorization with Symantec Enterprise Vault, providing archive categorization and retrieval functionality to the archiving framework in which Enterprise Vault customers already exist.
2/13/2007	MessageGate presents Top Five Email Blunders (Messaging News) MessageGate, Inc. has compiled a list of five unforgettable email blunders from 2006.
2/12/2007	Gatekeeper program keeps e-mailers from crossing the line While measuring proper behavior may seem obvious to some, Bellevue-based MessageGate offers something designed to let people know if they are operating outside the lines.
2/2/2007	Don't Get Caught Losing Data Recently, I met with Schaun Wolfe, the president and CEO of Message-Gate, which provides e-mail governance systems for companies including Boeing, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and others. As those who watch e-mail procedures and blunders for a living, executives at MessageGate compiled a list of what they considered the top 10 e-mail blunders of 2006.
1/30/2007	ESI Come, ESI Go: Next Steps for E-Discovery How are companies addressing these challenges? Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for MessageGate, an e-mail-monitoring software vendor, says that companies aren’t really sure what they should be doing. They look at the e-discovery rules from a legal perspective, but don’t quite know how they should apply to their technology infrastructure. Pease notes that some companies have attempted to respond by limiting e-mail or getting rid of it altogether; others are adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
1/24/2007	E-mail Governance: Meeting the Minimum by Shaun Wolfe Enterprise Strategy Group recently estimated that approximately two-thirds of an oganization’s intellectual property is sent via e-mail and resides in one or more parts of a company’s messaging infrastructure.
1/23/2007	The Problems with E-Mail As e-mails multiply, so do the problems, from the unabated increases in spam to increasing scrutiny by regulators.
1/11/2007	Compliance, Archive Categorization and Policy Enforcement for Electronic Records Management AXS-One Inc. (AMEX: AXO), a leading provider of high-performance Records Compliance Management (RCM) software solutions, and MessageGate, Inc., a leader in e-mail governance solutions, today announced an agreement to offer a broad-based and cost-effective solution that addresses the current market need for enhanced electronic records life cycle management.
1/9/2007	E-mail governance crucial for corporate survival, experts say "E-mail architecture and systems have grown organically," notes Robert Pease, vice-president, marketing at MessageGate, Inc., a Bellevue, Wash. based software vendor, specializing in corporate e-mail governance. The company's products are aimed at promoting effective e-mail use, and helping end users cope with threats, improving archival and retrieval activities – and overall e-mail governance.
1/9/2007	Email Security's Image Problem These sentiments are echoed by email filtering vendor MessageGate, which urges users to look out for large attachments and unusual email patterns. "Do the guys in the mailroom really need to be sending around images?" asks Robert Pease, the MessageGate's VP of marketing. MessageGate, according to Pease, can block outgoing emails at the gateway until the sender confirms that they comply with corporate privacy policies. This feature, called SenderConfirm, can specifically target emails with images attached, he adds.
1/4/2007	E-Discovery Rules Force Firms to Get Their (Record) Houses in Order With Robert Pease, MessageGate marketing VP. The e-mail governance software vendor recently announced a new partnership with records management software provider AXS-One that will help customers deal with the new electronic discovery requirements in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
11/27/2006	MessageGate Peeks into E-mail, Smells Trouble According to a recent survey, only about 60% of companies using an e-mail surveillance tool are actually better able to assess deviant employee behavior or potential network risks resulting from bad emails. Email governance software vendor MessageGate aims to better these numbers by profiling employee communications and pin-pointing communications and compliance risks.

Event Archives

8/14/2006

ASIS Annual Conference - Vance Booth #2236 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA In a world focused on the security challenges facing every business, organization, and government, only ASIS International - the resource trusted by security professionals for more than 50 years - can guarantee to deliver the excitement, the knowledge, and the solutions you've come to expect from the preeminent organization for security management professionals.

4/26/2006

Symantec Vision 2006, Booth #220 Moscone West, San Francisco, CA Evaluate the latest storage and security solutions, share and discuss best practices with peers from around the globe, and learn tips and tricks from developers leading the industry.

Industry News Archives

8/8/2008	Data Leak Protection: Focus on Inadvertent Leaks Instead of a breadth approach, start with the leakiest of applications, namely email and instant messaging, and work out from there. Numerous technologies exist--Orchestria, MessageGate, Vontu, Proofpoint, Akonix, FaceTime and others--that provide automated policy enforcement of real-time data.
8/7/2008	With e-discovery laws in effect, companies find benefits to data archiving Chris Bradley, vice president of marketing at Bellevue, Wash.-based MessageGate, maker of messaging compliance software, says companies should consider adopting a preservation solution that classifies and categorizes data.
7/24/2008	MessageGate Wins PCNews Weekly's Editor's Choice Award The MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance package keeps your company informationally safe and it wins our Editor’s Choice Award for protection and functionality.
6/9/2008	Sleepless in Seattle If you have amongst the thousands of companies that have an e-mail archive and want to find a way to ensure that only business content gets in there or you want to better classify the data in the archive, MessageGate can help.
5/2/2008	The Daily and Ongoing Problems with Email Will Only Get Worse The ongoing daily problems with email promise to only get worse. According to email management provider MessageGate, a company with 5,000 email users can anticipate about 900 unauthorized releases of private information and 150 unwanted questionable emails daily. This equals wasted time and compromised security for both businesses and individuals.
5/2/2008	Gain Control Of Your Email Since email has become such an oft-used communication tool, IT managers spend a great deal of time and energy trying to determine proper archiving strategies and simply handling the thousands of messages that zip through the network every day.
4/28/2008	Shedding Light on Top Email Security Concerns Security threats and overflowing archives continue as top concerns for today’s IT professionals. Yet only 10 percent of enterprises effectively address these issues, leaving most in a seemingly never-ending battle for security and archive management.
3/21/2008	Green Agendas Continue To Influence Content Strategies A few weeks back, I wrote about the compliance aspects of the paperless office and e-mail archiving handled by MessageGate. While it wasn't the sexiest topic, it was a strong example of the reduction of paper and efficiency gains common across enterprises that drive an entire category of content management.
3/3/2008	How Will You Conquer E-mail Management? While the most publicized concerns of e-mail management revolve around regulatory compliance — most familiar are probably SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley), FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure), and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) — the biggest risk factor comes from inside an organization.
2/11/2008	Can Google be a serious contender in messaging security and e-discovery? Safe to say there would be some hesitancy to having ads served up based on the indexed content of a company's email archive (not part of the offering...but one must wonder). Given what I repeatedly learned about the sensitivity and seriousness around corporate email, I'd imagine these needs will continue to be addressed by companies like MessageGate.
1/23/2008	MessageGate partners with Gradian for UK operations MessageGate's Enterprise Email Governance software is claimed to prevent email breaches through an in-depth analysis of email usage patterns of the client. It also enhances archival and recovery capabilities with its categorisation features and helps companies cope with threats. It ensures proper email usage across the enterprise. Its products include MessageGate Activity Profile (MAP), MessageGate Policy Enforcement, MessageGate Archive Categorisation, and MessageGate Email Filtering.
1/23/2008	ESI Come, ESI Go: Next Steps for E-Discovery How are companies addressing these challenges? Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for MessageGate, an e-mail-monitoring software vendor, says that companies aren't really sure what they should be doing. They look at the e-discovery rules from a legal perspective, but don't quite know how they should apply to their technology infrastructure. Pease notes that some companies have attempted to respond by limiting e- mail or getting rid of it altogether; others are adopting a wait-and-see attitude.
1/23/2008	MessageGate Enters UK Gradian Systems Ltd, the United Kingdom’s premier enterprise security solutions company specialising in the messaging market, has signed a strategic agreement with MessageGate, Inc. The agreement marks an exclusive UK distribution partnership between the two organizations and sets the scene for MessageGate availability in the UK. By partnering with Gradian, MessageGate will have access to Gradian’s superior sales, technical, training and services division, facilitating significant incremental market growth for both organizations.
1/22/2008	Can I selectively archive Exchange Server 2003 email messages? There is no way of achieving the kind of policy-based communication-retention in native Microsoft Exchange Server. A number of third-party solutions exist that may be able to assist. For example, you may want to look at MessageGate to see if they address your requirements.
1/21/2008	8 Hot Technologies for 2008 And the reason is that data leak prevention products plug a gaping hole in most company's security systems. The problem is that most security products are outwardly focused. They try to block external attacks. That's all well and good, but it doesn't address an entire spectrum of security vulnerabilities that occur when data moves from inside the network out.
1/21/2008	MessageGate appoints new CEO Norbert Orth has been promoted to the position of president and chief executive, replacing Shaun Wolfe who will become chairman. Orth, a former vice president at WRQ, previously served as vice president of sales and marketing at MessageGate.
1/21/2008	E-mail management/archiving strategies Eplica purchased MessageGate e-mail management software, including MessageGate Policy Enforcement and MessageGate E-mail Filtering. MessageGate’s Policy Enforcement tool archives e-mail and alerts Eplica’s marketing department if a company unit is trying to send out a large number of e-mails at once.
11/19/2007	Time To Take Action Against Data Loss They're out there, ready to snatch your company's most important data: organized cybercriminals, thieves looking to grab a wayward laptop, intruders using Web applications capable of extracting entire databases, malicious insiders hunting for ways to smuggle out valuable information. That's a lot of bad people, all eyeing your data.
10/4/2007	Practical Lessons: How to avoid costly email archiving mistakes The answer to bacn may be the same as the answer to spam, which is filtering. Several service providers claim to offer solutions, including Zantaz (now Autonomy), Fortiva, and MessageGate. According to MessageGate, 10 percent to 30 percent of email is bacn that winds up clogging the inbox and negatively impacting search results.
10/2/2007	The Biggest Email Archiving Errors The answer to bacn may be the same as the answer to spam, which is filtering. Several service providers claim to offer solutions, including Zantaz (now Autonomy), Fortiva, and MessageGate. According to MessageGate, 10 percent to 30 percent of email is bacn that winds up clogging the inbox and negatively impacting search results. Other vendors filter on image files or offer alternative products for in-house use.
10/2/2007	DataDirect Technologies Brings Superior Data Connectivity to MySQL Database “We have seen the interest level for open-source databases, such as the MySQL database, growing among our customers,” said Todd Rentschler, director of product management at MessageGate. “By offering JDBC drivers for MySQL Enterprise, DataDirect has ensured that our products can continue to offer the broadest database support for our customers no matter what database they use in their environment.”
9/24/2007	Social Networking: A Time Waster Or The Next Big Thing In Collaboration? And apparently the risks aren't great enough for enterprise security vendors to jump in. E-mail compliance vendor MessageGate could extend its platform to social networking, but it's not seeing a need yet, says VP of marketing Robert Pease.
8/30/2007	Balancing Generation Y preferences with security As young employees enter the workforce, so does a new round of security threats. Earlier this year, security vendor MessageGate conducted a series of roundtable discussions with senior IT professionals to try to understand the issues around Generation Y technology.
8/16/2007	Three things you can do today to get email under control So to really boil this down to basics, here is what you can do tomorrow (or even today) to not only mitigate risk but take real cost out of the messaging infrastructure.
8/13/2007	MessageGate and Enterprise Strategy Group Outline Necessary Balance Between Practical Email Governance and Employee Productivity MessageGate, Inc. released a podcast featuring Brian Babineau, a noted industry analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
8/13/2007	What might get revealed in e-discovery? I saw an article about a Minnesota man who is requesting the source code to the breathalyzer the police used during his arrest for drunk driving. How's that for e-discovery?
7/25/2007	How Security Heads View New Technology Tech-security managers aren’t much fun. In most companies, they’re the guys who tell people they can’t use particular software or Web sites and set limits on how to use approved ones.
7/24/2007	Electronic Communication Supervision: There's a Better Way With Robert Pease, vice president of marketing at MessageGate. The compliance technology vendor recently commented on the NYSE/NASD proposed member guidance on supervision of electronic communication.
7/10/2007	Google's buyout of Postini and what it means for MessageGate A few weeks ago I received a tip that MessageGate, the Bellevue e-mail management company that spun out of Boeing in 2003, was considering a sale. Now, it turns out that one of MessageGate's competitors, San Carlos, Calif.-based Postini, has been sold to Google for $625 million.
7/6/2007	All email is not created equally "Here's where e-mail's socialism turns from strength to weakness: It doesn't matter if the message comes from a spammer hawking Viagra, your wife asking you to pick up some wine, your boss telling the company that Monday is a holiday, or a client asking for a meeting at his office at 11 a.m. In today's inboxes, all e-mail messages are equal."
6/26/2007	LiveOffice, MessageGate Surveys Stress Importance of Preparing for e-Discovery Dubbed e-discovery, these recent changes are helping put even more pressure on IT managers to have a suitable enterprise email management solution in place. That's where MessageGate and LiveOffice enter the picture.
6/25/2007	Don't Charge the Email Hill First So, what to do about email? How do you actively control/manage something people view personally? Very carefully. This is why we advocate a minimum threshold approach. Forget about technology/software out of the gate, do an audit whether you use MessageGate or somebody else - you need to do one.
6/6/2007	Email ranks as most commonly requested form of electronic evidence, says Enterprise Strategy Group MessageGate is offering a free Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) white paper on its intelligent message management capabilities for improving governance and risk mitigation in modern business environments. The whitepaper addresses growing email concerns, including litigation e-discovery and security risks, positions MessageGate within the market, and outlines practical steps to ease email governance burdens.
5/16/2007	Emails ruled public records "The e-mails are public records and not exempt from disclosure under either statutory exemptions or constitutional law," the court said in its unanimous five-justice opinion.
5/16/2007	TelecomWeb: Enterprise Email Staffers Face Two-Pronged Security Problem According to a study just released by Washington State-based MessageGate Inc., enterprise IT and security professionals face two major forces related to enterprise messaging: a content deluge due to growing volumes of electronic documents that must be retained, stored and made accessible for retrieval.
5/9/2007	Leak prompts HP to issue early guidance Leaked financial figures on Tuesday forced Hewlett-Packard, the world’s biggest computer company, to pre-empt its quarterly earnings announcement and disclose better-than-expected second-quarter results.
5/4/2007	Pulling Email Point Products Together “Every company has to meet a minimum threshold of governance as it relates to email,” says Robert Pease, vice president of marketing for MessageGate.
5/3/2007	E-mail may be hazardous to your career Sometimes bad e-mail happens to high-achieving people. Consider Steven Heyer, the recently departed CEO of Starwood Hotels (Charts, Fortune 500), who stepped down last month after the company's board reportedly pressed him to explain allegations of suggestive e-mails between him and a younger female employee.
4/26/2007	JOLT Shines Legal Light on eDiscovery A good IT dept. knows that “leveraging searchability” doesn’t quite solve all the problems eDiscovery compliance presents, but it’s a decent starting point and records management vendors like MessageGate have long been gnawing at the bit.
4/20/2007	Control The Flow Of Enterprise Email In any corporate environment, managing the flow of email is similar to controlling highway traffic during rush hour. Buses and trucks are diverted; stoplights keep cars from entering the freeway and causing undue congestion; and highway troopers nab speeders and other ne’er-do-well drivers before they can wreak havoc on the roadways.
4/13/2007	Officials' e-mails may be missing, White House says The White House said Wednesday that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through a private e-mail system used by political guru Karl Rove and at least 50 other top officials, an admission that stirred anger and dismay among congressional investigators.
4/13/2007	Leahy Doubts Bush Aides on Lost E-Mails The Justice Department on Friday sent Congress more documents on the firings of U.S. attorneys, satisfying one Democratic demand even as a new fight erupted over White House e-mails that may have been lost.
4/12/2007	MessageGate Enterprise Email Governance - Get a Grip on Communication Slips MessageGate's product takes a very sensible approach to this specific, albeit biggest, insider data-leak conduit. After operating in passive mode that captures all e-mail communications, you develop policies specific to your organization's culture and any problems uncovered.
4/2/2007	Rights of Passage Goldman Sachs, an institution that knows a little something about keeping a big deal quiet and blindsiding the competition, is implementing enterprise rights management (ERM) technology to manage how confidential information is used, moved and stored. So far, commercial banks have shown just modest interest in ERM, but the technology's potential as a compliance tool, plus its inherent security benefits, may yet convert them.
4/2/2007	White House use of outside e-mail raises red flags For official government business, staff members in the Bush White House use government-issued e-mail accounts where all communications are then stored, archived and preserved for eventual inclusion in the National Archives.
3/30/2007	More Evidence of U.S. as Malware Capital New research supports the growing perception that the United States is producin greater volumes of malware code than any other region of the planet.
3/22/2007	Advice on Handling Threats from Emails Retaining any and all messages, notes email system vendor MessageGate, significantly complicates the discovery process for litigation purposes.
3/12/2007	Intel CEO May Have Lost Memos Lawyers for Advanced Micro Devices are contending that Intel's top managers, including CEO Paul Otellini, may have failed to preserve electronic documents vital to the chip maker's antitrust case against its larger rival, according to a hearing transcript released Sunday by AMD.
3/6/2007	Intel may have lost e-mails in AMD antitrust suit Intel said it may not be able to provide all the electronic documents that rival Advanced Micro Devices is requesting in an antitrust lawsuit because of human error.
3/6/2007	Compliance: New Discoveries MessageGate, on the other hand, provides software that analyzes and archives company e-mail. It emphasizes organizing archives into categories. "Spam mail does not need to be stored in the same place as highly sensitive e-mails," says Wolfe.
3/6/2007	E-Evidence: New rules govern your company’s electronic files. Under amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that took effect December 1, 2006, information stored electronically--including company e-mail--is subject to the same rules of discovery as other evidence.
2/27/2007	Email Mistakes: Giving Away the Store, Without Knowing it Inside jobs don't have to be the work of disgruntled employees. New research suggests most email-related exposure of sensitive data is accidental.
2/26/2007	MessageGate’s SenderConfirm Combats EMail Risk MessageGate, Inc., a provider in email governance, has launched SenderConfirm. Through its interface, SenderConfirm was designed to deliver risk mitigation benefits and educate end users on proper usage while preventing potentially damaging employee actions, such as the transmission of social security numbers, release of internal correspondence, or the sending of sensitive information to personal email accounts.
2/26/2007	MessageGate, Symantec Integrate MessageGate, Inc., a leader in practical e-mail governance, today announced integration of MessageGate Archive Categorization with Symantec Enterprise Vault, providing archive categorization and retrieval functionality to the archiving framework in which Enterprise Vault customers already exist.
2/21/2007	Federal ruling forces schools to archive all electronic data "We're looking at a very broad definition of electronic communication, but basically we're being required to elevate instant messaging and e-mail to the same legal degree as paper," said Kelly Ahrens, the district's director of technology.
2/21/2007	E-Discovery Survival Guide For Corporate Counsel When the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, there was a widespread feeling of panic among corporate counsel and, indeed, many members of the bar, as well. Some articles in the popular press reported that the amendments require corporations to retain virtually every electronic document ever created. Fortunately, the situation is not nearly as dire as rumored.
2/16/2007	Massive Insider Breach At DuPont A research chemist who worked for DuPont for 10 years before accepting a job with a competitor downloaded 22,000 sensitive documents and viewed 16,706 more in the company's electronic library.
2/15/2007	Biggest threat to corporate information: Ignorance Corporate executives listen up: Valuable company information is getting into the wrong hands. Sensitive documents are walking out in briefcases, bytes of data are zooming away over the Internet, and those internal files you thought were history are probably lying, unshredded, in some Dumpster.
2/13/2007	Prediction: one day you will reduce total storage I have sometimes asked what some see as a daft question concerning storage: “When is someone going to come up with a solution that will completely stop storage growth rather than just slowing it down a little?” Usually, the response is a deafening silence. But I predict: one day your organisation WILL reduce its total storage.
2/13/2007	MessageGate presents Top Five Email Blunders (Messaging News) MessageGate, Inc. has compiled a list of five unforgettable email blunders from 2006.
2/13/2007	Think before you send Bill Bennett, minister of state for mines and MLA for East Kootenay, resigned his position in the B.C. cabinet this week. The reason: a nasty e-mail he sent to a constituent.
2/12/2007	Gatekeeper program keeps e-mailers from crossing the line While measuring proper behavior may seem obvious to some, Bellevue-based MessageGate offers something designed to let people know if they are operating outside the lines.
2/2/2007	Don't Get Caught Losing Data Recently, I met with Schaun Wolfe, the president and CEO of Message-Gate, which provides e-mail governance systems for companies including Boeing, Bank of America, Lehman Brothers and others. As those who watch e-mail procedures and blunders for a living, executives at MessageGate compiled a list of what they considered the top 10 e-mail blunders of 2006.
1/30/2007	ESI Come, ESI Go: Next Steps for E-Discovery Since December, the US civil code has included electronically stored information (ESI) in its requirements for legal discovery. But surveys show most companies are unprepared to comply. What’s the holdup, and how can companies move toward sustainable e-discovery management?
1/23/2007	Storm Trojan Worst Outbreak Since ’05, Symantec Says Malicious software that was sent out in millions of spam messages over the weekend has now infected about 300,000 computers, making it the worst malware outbreak since 2005, Symantec said Monday.
1/23/2007	McAfee Upgrade Jams Up Lotus Notes The latest upgrade to McAfee’s VirusScan Enterprise security software is causing hiccups for some versions of IBM’s Lotus Notes, the companies warned.
1/23/2007	Identity theft pays, just ask Martha Coakley As anybody who has ever been the victim of identity theft knows, the reason it's so common is because it pays.
1/23/2007	Calif. Offers Plea Deals to Dunn, Former HP Execs The California attorney general has offered to drop felony charges against the four remaining defendants charged in the Hewlett-Packard spying case if they plead guilty to one misdemeanor each, according to published reports.
1/23/2007	Spam Law Claims First Conviction A California man found guilty of running a phishing scam will face a sentence of up to 101 years in federal prison, according to an Associated Press report in The Mercury News.
1/23/2007	The Problems with E-Mail As e-mails multiply, so do the problems, from the unabated increases in spam to increasing scrutiny by regulators.
1/16/2007	HP Spying Case: Investigator to Plead Guilty, Reports Say A private investigator charged in connection with the Hewlett-Packard (HP) pretexting case is expected to appear in U.S. Federal District Court Friday and, according to news reports, to plead guilty to charges filed Wednesday.
1/11/2007	Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls Companies spend millions on systems to keep corporate e-mail safe. If only their employees were as paranoid.
1/11/2007	HP investigator faces identity-theft charge A U.S. attorney has charged Bryan Wagner, an independent investigator who worked for Hewlett-Packard while the company tried to find the source of board leaks, with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy.
1/11/2007	Compliance, Archive Categorization and Policy Enforcement for Electronic Records Management AXS-One Inc. (AMEX: AXO), a leading provider of high-performance Records Compliance Management (RCM) software solutions, and MessageGate, Inc., a leader in e-mail governance solutions, today announced an agreement to offer a broad-based and cost-effective solution that addresses the current market need for enhanced electronic records life cycle management.
1/10/2007	Spitzer Office Finds E-Mail Can Be Revealing Gov. Eliot Spitzer made his name, in part, on indiscreet e-mails, as any number of executives who were pursued by the attorney general’s office in recent years can attest. Now his administration has sent out an indiscreet e-mail of its own: an e-mailed response to people seeking jobs as spokesmen was addressed to 227 other applicants, including many reporters and local and city government employees.
1/9/2007	E-mail governance crucial for corporate survival, experts say "E-mail architecture and systems have grown organically," notes Robert Pease, vice-president, marketing at MessageGate, Inc., a Bellevue, Wash. based software vendor, specializing in corporate e-mail governance. The company's products are aimed at promoting effective e-mail use, and helping end users cope with threats, improving archival and retrieval activities – and overall e-mail governance.
1/9/2007	Email Security's Image Problem These sentiments are echoed by email filtering vendor MessageGate, which urges users to look out for large attachments and unusual email patterns. "Do the guys in the mailroom really need to be sending around images?" asks Robert Pease, the MessageGate's VP of marketing. MessageGate, according to Pease, can block outgoing emails at the gateway until the sender confirms that they comply with corporate privacy policies. This feature, called SenderConfirm, can specifically target emails with images attached, he adds.
1/9/2007	Information Security: There's No Substitute For Good Preparation Information security professionals are among the most sought-after in financial services, and the most sought-out internally by the audit, compliance and risk-management teams eager to determine whether the institution's security incident-response plan will pass muster with outside auditors, or an actual high-profile information security breach.
1/5/2007	Top 10 E-Mail Faux Pas Rarely do public-relations professionals do one's work for you, but that was the case today when a list of the Top 10 E-mail Mistakes and Mishaps in 2006 crossed my desk. My favorite (please don't try this at your place of business:) "Thanks, but I no longer need the job."
1/4/2007	E-Discovery Rules Force Firms to Get Their (Record) Houses in Order With Robert Pease, MessageGate marketing VP. The e-mail governance software vendor recently announced a new partnership with records management software provider AXS-One that will help customers deal with the new electronic discovery requirements in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
1/3/2007	Email Archiving Will Integrate With Content Control Email archiving solutions ought to integrate with content control solutions. One major reason is that policy is often set for risk mitigation purposes: If something might be sensitive, then you flag it and give it special processing. For example, you might send it to HR for review, or you might have it archived.
1/2/2007	Better not delete your old e-mails E-mail has been used as evidence in court cases for years. The new rules, however, cover spreadsheets, voicemail files and database records. According to the rules, electronic information that is requested must be turned over within 120 days. The courts have imposed significant fines when the deadline isn't met.
1/2/2007	Dashboard: Vendors Jump on e-Discovery Bandwagon AXS-One recently teamed up with MessageGate, an e-mail-governance software provider, to scan and classify messages before they enter mailboxes. Irrelevant messages are ignored to limit the amount of data that needs to be poured over.
1/2/2007	How to Untangle 'Strings' of E-Discovery Attorneys nationwide are preparing to practice under the new electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which became effective on Dec. 1. The amended rules require parties in civil litigation to confer about e-discovery issues at the earliest time practicable. See Amended Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(f). One of the matters that parties should be prepared to address during this initial discussion is the assertion of privilege claims as to e-mails that are part of larger "strings" comprising both privileged and nonprivileged e-mails. Focusing on this issue before discovery begins may enable attorneys to decrease the costs of discovery and reduce the risk of court-ordered sanctions.
1/2/2007	What's Your Main Technology Concern? Whenever new technology raised questions, accountants of the past would flood the IT department with questions. Not today. It's now the responsibility of management accountants to care for all information in the business. To provide this care successfully, they must thoroughly understand the technologies that are commonplace, yet rapidly changing, in all business activities. A top 10 technologies list provides a guide.
12/21/2006	Firm Accused Of Deleting Missing E-Mail Securities regulators charged Morgan Stanley DW Inc. with failing to hand over millions of e-mail messages to investigators and plaintiffs by falsely saying that the documents had been lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, according to a complaint filed yesterday.
12/16/2006	U.S. Tops 100M Records Exposed on Boeing Privacy Breach A stolen laptop at Boeing has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark.
12/11/2006	Trials and Tribulations of New Rules on EDD