WOBURN, Mass. – August 13, 2007 – Reflexion Networks, a leading provider of managed email threat protection services, and CMIT Solutions, one of the largest IT services and products franchise companies in the United States with over 100 locations in 32 states, today announced an agreement to deliver affordable, enterprise-class managed email security services to small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with up to 500 employees. CMIT Solutions will offer Reflexion Total Control as part of its managed services offering, protecting its customers from spam in any language, phishing attacks and other malicious email content.
The SMB market is widely recognized as a key driver of the national economy, but less recognized as a crucial component of the email security ecosystem. Security vendors with well-differentiated products typically focus on large corporate accounts, at the expense of the SMB market. The SMB market needs enterprise-class capability, but in an affordable offering that is easy to deploy and manage. Without adequate security tools, unprotected SMB accounts provide a platform that spammers, virus writers, and hackers can use to attack targets ranging from consumers to the largest organizations. This partnership brings an affordable, uniquely effective solution to the SMB market, in the form of a managed service for easy deployment and zero on-going maintenance.
“CMIT Solutions set out to find the best managed anti-spam and email security solution with rapid deployment and simplified franchisee billing options. Reflexion is a perfect match for our requirements,” said Georgia Jones, CMIT Solutions’ founder and Vice President of Alliances. “CMIT Solutions’ goal is to simplify the technology side of the customer’s business, so that they can focus on making money. With Reflexion, we can eliminate the time and effort that would otherwise have to go into managing and securing the email stream, giving our customers the confidence and capacity to focus on their other priorities.”
The benefits of CMIT Solutions’ managed email threat protection service include:
• Effective inbox control – Reflexion provides email users with unparalleled control over their inbox, blocking unwanted mail, while also providing the means of assuring the delivery of legitimate mail. A daily spam quarantine report can be sent to reassure users that they aren’t missing anything important.
• An insulating layer of security – This managed service blocks unwanted and potentially harmful email before it even reaches the corporate network, keeping malicious content at arm’s length and saving bandwidth.
• Email / business continuity – You needn’t worry about losing email when your power goes out or your local email server fails; this service automatically queues inbound mail, presenting it for delivery when normal operations resume. It also helps avoid the business disruption that can result from having your local email server blacklisted.
• Brand protection and blacklist avoidance – Outbound email is audited, too, to help prevent customers from spamming or spreading viruses to their customers, partners and suppliers.
Adding Reflexion’s email threat protection to its suite of offerings for small and midsize businesses is consistent with CMIT Solutions’ positioning as a leading provider of cutting edge managed services.
“Reflexion provides users with innovative and effective tools that enhance the email experience with improved security, privacy, convenience and trust,” said Scott Barlow, vice president of sales at Reflexion Networks. “Our emphasis on dependability, service and support makes for a natural fit with the trusted and time-tested relationships that CMIT Solutions cultivates with its clients. We are all excited about bringing an essential business service to the vast SMB market at an affordable price, enabling small and mid-size businesses to enjoy renewed confidence in email.”
About Reflexion Networks
Reflexion Networks delivers a managed email threat protection service that provides users with unprecedented, proactive and granular control over their email for a pristine inbox every day. Reflexion Total Control stops spam and viruses, makes phishing exploits immediately self-evident, detects zombie PCs and open relays, and blocks directory harvest attacks using a highly configurable, layered defense with Address-on-the-Fly. The company offers its service through its worldwide partner network of technology and service providers. Reflexion Networks is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, Reflexion is available on the Web at www.Reflexion.net.
About CMIT Solutions
Launched in 1996, Austin Texas-based CMIT Solutions is a leading provider of information technology (IT) professional services and products to small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), and is uniquely capable of supporting SMBs anywhere, coast to coast in the U.S. By focusing on developing and maintaining a local, trust-based relationship with its customers, CMIT Solutions is able to meet most, if not all of their IT needs. CMIT Solutions offers a wide variety of services and products, including enterprise-class Technology Enabled Business Services, at prices small businesses can afford. Because of its growing geographic presence and partner programs, CMIT Solutions is a very attractive sales and/or support channel for larger firms wanting or needing to reach the millions of smaller businesses in the U.S. For more information, please visit www.cmitsolutions.com.