Intermedia Adds McAfee Email Defense for SMB Cloud Security

Cloud IT services and business applications provider Intermedia has added McAfee Email Defense to its lineup of products. The company will use Email Defense to offer additional protection to its SMB customers and partners from email-based security threats and business continuity risks.

McAfee Email Defense is a suite of three cloud services, including:

• McAfee Basic and Advanced Email Protection. Basic aims to eliminate spam and viruses before they reach end-users’ mailboxes. Advanced adds granular control over protection settings.
• McAfee Email Continuity, an add-on service that provides customers with redundant email access “for peace of mind beyond Intermedia’s 99.999 percent uptime guarantee.”
• McAfee Email Data Loss Prevention. Also an add-on service, it filters outgoing email to ensure sensitive information or undetected viruses don’t leave end users’ mailboxes.

“The world has too many stories of email-based viruses bringing down networks or exposing sensitive information,” said Michael Gold, president of Intermedia, in a prepared statement. “We’re bringing McAfee into our ecosystem to protect productivity and security by shielding our users from email-based threats.”

Intermedia is going to market with McAfee Email Defense through its network of channel partners, giving them the ability to add cloud-based email protection services to their own portfolios. One of the benefits of going with Intermedia, according to the company, is to add such services without the integration and management complexities of working with a third-party security provider.

According to McAfee Labs, between 80 percent and 90 percent of all email traffic is unwanted. There’s also statistics out there that show that 58 percent of organizations have been infiltrated by email-based malware.