CA, Inc.  today announced the immediate availability of its new CA Gateway Security r8.1, formerly known as the eTrust Secure Content Manager. The new product provides a unified gateway solution that helps organizations of any size avoid data confidentiality breaches. By capitalizing on existing features such as CA anti-spam engines and smart filter technology, CA Gateway Security r8.1 offers a multi-layered approach to data protection.

CA Gateway Security r8.1 helps protect businesses of any size by safeguarding against the outbound transmission of confidential information. The product, designed to secure, monitor, filter and block potential threats from messaging and Web traffic, facilitates security compliance and removes obstacles to employee productivity, which contributes to overall business continuity.

"With data breaches continuing to plague enterprises as well as small and medium sized businesses, organizations need to protect their assets with software that prevents gateway breach attempts," said Erik Bertel, principal product manager for CA's Internet Security Business Unit. "Our new CA Gateway Security r8.1 provides multi-layered security and reduces IT burdens by centralizing threat management technology into one single console. This way, businesses of any size can efficiently manage their security systems and streamline business processes."

CA Gateway Security r8.1 comes equipped with an enhanced phishing detection system that is designed to prevent spam using sender "reputation" recognition software, embedded URL filtering and malformed email detection. In addition, a new statistics function provides users with spam report summary emails, giving users greater insight into the performance of the spam program monitoring process.

To stimulate enterprise awareness and manage employee online behavior, CA Gateway Security r8.1 provides customizable views into Internet activity, transmission of confidential data and unauthorized use of corporate equipment. With an Enhanced Active Directory feature, IT managers are able to facilitate policy enforcement and regulate compliance with security standards.

One of the first organizations to roll out the new gateway security solution was CA. Bill Taub, vice president of Global IT Security for CA noted, "The new CA Gateway Security r8.1 release has reduced our overall spam load by over 90 percent. That means less work for our servers, significantly less spam reaching our end users and a greatly improved email experience for our end users."

Additional features to CA Gateway Security r8.1 include:

•       New Microsoft Outlook plug-in for enhanced end-user spam control and notification.

•       Improved spam, URL filtering and anti-virus engines.

•       Desktop notifications when new messages are sent to quarantine folders at the gateway

•       Increased usability with improved communications to the end user regarding spam mail status

•       Enhanced role-based integration that allows administrators to grant spam management capabilities to end users

•       Integration of lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) templates to avoid overloading the Active Directory server with reconnection attempts

Pricing and Availability

For pricing and additional information about CA Gateway Security r8.1, visit:

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CA Internet Security Business Unit (ISBU) develops, markets and supports CA anti-malware products. The products include a full-range of enterprise, SMB, and home/home office Internet security software. The products are backed by CA's Security Advisor research team and have received major industry certifications. CA ISBU products are also offered by more than 10,000 resellers and OEM partners including leading Internet service providers (ISPs) and independent software vendors (ISVs). The products are currently protecting more than 70 million PCs worldwide.

About CA

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