Webroot Offering Cloud-Based E-mail Scanning

January 16, 2008 | Category: Newsbreak

Webroot, a company that made its fortune in the client-side spyware detection market, announced its entry into the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market with Webroot E-Mail Security SaaS, an e-mail security service for consumers and SMBs.

This product is the result of Webroot’s November 2007 merger with Email Systems, a SaaS security provider in the United Kingdom. The e-mail scanning works through both cloud-based scanning and by Webroot’s AntiSpyware Corporate Edition with AntiVirus end-point software. Between the two products, the security service uses up to five different antivirus and two different spam filtering engines. Read more