MessageLabs overview

MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, provides a range of managed services to protect, control, encrypt and archive electronic communications. Listed as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and many other analyst reports, and with more than 21,000 clients ranging from small business to the Fortune 500 located in more than 99 countries, MessageLabs services are widely recognized as a market leader in the messaging and web security market.

Information is one of your most valuable assets

Electronic information is undoubtedly one of the most valuable assets within an organization and there is a growing range of communication channels such as email, web, IM, mobile and voice over IP over which this information can travel. This abundance of choice has led to the emergence of an increasingly sophisticated range of online threats such as viruses, spam, inappropriate content, spyware and phishing attacks. These threats present real business risks such as impact to business continuity, loss of confidential information, legal exposure and failure to enforce regulatory compliance, all of which can have significant financial implications.

MessageLabs on-demand services provide instant and continuous protection for your company

MessageLabs provides a highly effective and integrated set of on-demand services, to stop both known and unknown threats before they reach your corporate boundaries, address a range of content management challenges and provide around the clock protection for your company. Without the need for hardware or software, MessageLabs services can be deployed anywhere in the world in a matter of minutes. Completely integrated across a global platform, our services for email, web and IM, offer a ‘one window’ management interface and 24/7 worldwide service and support from our team of security experts. This provides a convenient and cost-effective solution for managing and reducing risk and providing certainty in the exchange of business information.

A history of innovation

MessageLabs, now part of Symantec, was founded in 1999 with a single purpose – to find a better way to stop the new breed of viruses that were harnessing the power of Internet to spread rapidly and causing huge disruption to the business world. Traditional anti-virus software was designed in a pre-Internet age. Reactive in nature it was proving to be ineffective at stopping this new breed of viruses.

Every threat should be stopped long before it reaches you

MessageLabs was the first company in the world to introduce anti-virus as a service rather than software, delivered within the fabric of the Internet, that was able to stop threats long before they reached their intended targets, could learn from the huge volumes of messages being processed and was able to draw on far greater resources than would be possible within a single organization. The result was a truly revolutionary anti-virus service that gained worldwide recognition for stopping and naming the Lovebug virus hours before any other vendor heralding a new era in the industry.

A simple and compelling vision

MessageLabs has built on this successful model and extended our vision to provide complete certainty in the exchange of all business information, regardless of protocol, device or location. The company continues to innovate as messaging evolves – now with some 19 patents granted or pending.