MAILWATCH PIONEERED THE MARKET
MailWatch was initially introduced in 1996 by the Allegro Group, an email hosting company that worked with clients to develop methods for monitoring inbound and outbound messages to ensure that employees were not distributing emails with inappropriate language, confidential information, oversized attachments or other unwanted content. MailWatch gained rapid acceptance in the legal industry where protecting clients from the inadvertent disclosure of private information is vitally important, and later extended into other industries with privacy requirements such as healthcare companies, financial services firms and government agencies.
By 1999, MailWatch was a well-established provider of email security services when the company was acquired by mail.com, which later became EasyLink Services Corp. (NASDAQ: EASY). EasyLink initially focused on enhancing the MailWatch infrastructure and the scope of the service to include anti-virus scanning and disaster recovery services, and later added anti-spam services to combat the rising volume of unsolicited emails being directed at companies. These services were integrated into a single, seamless, comprehensive email security service that protects companies from spam and viruses, enforces employee compliance with corporate email policies, and assures the delivery of emails even when the recipients. infrastructure may be temporarily down.
The addition of these capabilities broadened the market for the Mailwatch service to other industries including manufacturing, retail, professional services and media markets, and enabled MailWatch to expand its infrastructure to support the high-volume processing requirements of large-scale, enterprise companies.
In August, 2004, MailWatch was acquired by Infocrossing, Inc. (NASDAQ: IFOX), a provider of outsourced information processing and security services to some of the world.s largest firms. The MailWatch service became part of Infocrossing.s Managed Security Services, where the solution was enhanced to incorporate best-of-breed commercial technologies such as Brightmail Anti-Spam and McAfee Anti-Virus.
In August 2009, MailWatch was acquired by MARSYS, a provider of advanced IT business solutions. MailWatch service is one of the flagship services of Xecuritas, a business unit of MARSYS delivering solutions associated with messaging technologies.
Today, MailWatch is one of the leading providers of email security services for companies of any size, across nearly every industry. MailWatch clients include government entities, manufacturing companies, financial firms, media companies, and hundreds of professional services firms and other small businesses.