Mirapoint Introduces Secure Email Archiving Appliance

The Mirapoint RazorSafe fills a crucial gap for enterprises
that struggle with the deployment complexity, costly storage, and inefficient
management afforded by existing email archiving solutions.

As the primary communications vehicle used by businesses
today, email is taking center stage in boardroom discussions ranging from
compliance to legal affairs, to business and security policy, to customer care,
disaster recovery, and more. Faced with
rapidly expanding email and IM data repositories, companies are challenged to
cost-effectively store, access and manage critical information they may need
tomorrow or ten years from now. Just as
important is the need and challenge of having policy-based controls for
blocking, redirecting, and archiving messages, based on regulatory requirements
and internal controls. 

“The
amount of data from email and instant messages flowing in and out of
enterprises today is staggering, making it a focal point for compliance,” said Alan
Elliot, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint. “Regulators now require secure data
transmission and storage, robust filtering, logging and reporting, leaving both
private and public companies clamoring for reliable and highly available
messaging services that enforce authentication and encryption controls. RazorSafe was designed specifically to help enterprises
gain control over their tremendous stores of email data and cost-effectively
adhere to best practices in eDiscovery preparedness.” 

To
date, companies have been limited to costly solutions that offer the breadth of
support needed for their larger communities of users but also bring along
complexities that fuel inefficiency and clog the retrieval and discovery
processes. The Mirapoint RazorSafe brings
new simplicity to the email archiving challenge while supporting the mission
critical requirements mandated by today’s stringent regulations.   

According to Steven Lamarche, Chief Administrative
Officer, Computers for the New Bedford Public Schools in Massachusetts, “Email is an essential
communications tool for our facility and staff. 
As a result, protecting the integrity of our email over time has become
more critical. We looked at a lot of
options before selecting RazorSafe based on the solutions ease of use and
deployment. Now, we have insurance that our email is protected and secured for
years to come.

Unlike
traditional archiving solutions which require administrators to piece together
servers, additional hardware, storage, software and operating systems, the RazorSafe combines indexing software and storage
hardware in a single, plug-and-play appliance which can be attached to any
email server. The product’s easy
integration with any of today’s popular messaging servers reduces deployment
and administration time and complexity while expediting retrieval of critical
information.

The RazorSafe extends the
power of the Mirapoint secure messaging infrastructure solution providing added
benefits including intelligent storage of email and instant messages. 

Key features include:

• * LDAP authentication and authorization – allows end-user access to the RazorSafe
  system. End-users can self-serve on their archived items, such that they
  can recover lost emails or get a list of emails with the interested
  content.
• * Single-instance attachment – for
  the same attachment appearing in multiple emails, RazorSafe keeps a single copy of attachments which
  appear in multiple emails   reducing the I/O.. 
• * Searches into secondary
  storage – administrators can manage
  email from primary or secondary storage  
• * Outlook plug-in Windows utility – users can print and view email and attachment
  directly from Outlook using a Windows utility

• * Ease of discovery
  and investigation – improved
  search capabilities reducing time and effort required for in-depth
  searches.
• * Global support – one of the few email archiving solutions with seamless support
  for European and double byte character indexing and displaying for
  companies conducting business internationally.
• * Uninterrupted compliance
  and audit trails – automatic recording and saving of
  all logs show searches and system access in log format at all times.
• * Accelerated internal
  investigation – allows businesses to trace email
  activity by flexible categories including user, subject, content, type to support
  identification of illicit actions and expedite information retrieval.
• * Scalability – 3.7 terabytes of storage provide mid-sized companies the
  scalability they need while minimizing duplicate email and spam storage.
• * Enhanced system/data
  integrity – force code additions protect “secure
  data wipe” feature from accidental or unauthorized data deletion.
• * Life cycle
  management – data retention policy provides a
  sliding window to age items from the primary storage.
• * Intuitive usability – provides ability to constantly update a particular search with no
  administrator interaction required allowing IT technicians to receive
  regular email updates without micromanaging the system and supports more
  granular searches with clear pictures of search status.

According
to Rose Ryan, JD, research analyst security products and services for IDC, “With
stringent compliance regulations and mounting corporate law suits, enterprises
cannot afford for email and IM archiving and management to be an afterthought.  The process of eDiscovery can represent
staggering expenses, and companies that employ a sustainable and cost-effective
email preparedness campaign can not only harness the wealth of information
contained within their primary communications system, but also strategically
address today’s challenging requirements.”

The RazorSafe is
available now. There are two models, the entry model is priced at $19,995 for 1TB of storage and the
370 at $49,995 for 3.7TB of storage, no seat license required. They are available through its channel
partners worldwide.

Mirapoint

New Bedford Public Schools