One of the key advantages and differentiators in our Message Inspector and Web Inspector product lines is the ability to handle a broad spectrum of Internet traffic load. ESI has developed and continues to develop all products to address the increasing amounts of web and email traffic. Inherent benefits of the products include the ability to deploy multiple servers to scale with increasing loads, while being centrally managed and maintained by a web-based management console. In addition, Web Inspector and Message Inspector take full advantage of multiple-processor server implementations and are designed from the ground up to be processor efficient. As an example, in 2001 Web Inspector handled ~2,000 users/server, whereas today we specify up to 6,500 users/server.

The content filtering uptake in the market, even in the face of the economic and IT budget woes over the past two years, has continued to grow at a double digit CAGR. The industry, and ESI as a member company, must continue to highlight and raise the visibility of the needs, requirements and benefits of content filtering above and beyond the present day implementations. As an example, much of today's email content filtering implementations focus either on attachment handling or spam detection, both important aspects of email filtering. But few companies have expanded beyond these '1st order' uses into using email content filtering for business critical applications. These '2nd order' uses include:

• Industry specific content filtering for regulatory compliance (e.g. - HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, SEC et al)
• Intelligent email and document archiving
• Business intelligence/email data mining to determine what is occurring in a business on a day-to-day or minute-by-minute basis
• Protection of confidential information from being sent outside an organization

From the beginning, one of ESI's core advantages in the market was the ability to provide web, email and anti-virus filtering from a single source...something that very few competitors can offer. With the Internet Manager family of solutions, ESI can handle the bulk of any content filtering requirements that a company may have. Furthering this advantage, ESI's long-term strategy is to 'remove the adjective' from spam/email/web/virus content filtering, and provide a one stop, one application offering for all corporate and enterprise accounts.


In addition, ESI is able to be 'delivery-mechanism' agnostic, as we have worked to embed our core content filtering technology and capabilities into our partners' appliance, service and MTA offerings. In this manner, we can provide the best content filtering in the market, in whatever manner an end-user prefers - whether it be as an application directly from ESI or as an appliance, service or MTA add-on through our partners.

You claim that IM Anti-Virus software provides "total virus protection". Is total virus protection possible?