London, UK, 28 November 2005 – GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP, its email content security solution, has been named as one of the finalists in the Best Email Content Filtering category in the SC Awards 2006. The latest version offers email content checking, exploit detection, threats analysis and anti-virus solution that removes all types of email-borne threats before they can affect your email users. The SC Magazine Awards 2006 have proved to be the biggest yet with over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 companies.

The finalists have been chosen by the readers of SC Magazine. The awards were developed not only to reflect professional achievement and the important role that information security professionals play in helping to shape our industry, but also technical excellence around the world. Products shortlisted in the Best Email Content Filtering category must include content filtering and management features that protect users from online malware, avoid illicit and possibly illegal content and protect the intellectual property of the company.

About GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP
GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP is an email content checking, exploit detection, threats analysis and anti-virus solution that removes all types of email-borne threats before they can affect your email users. GFI MailSecurity's key features include multiple virus engines, to guarantee higher detection rate and faster response to new viruses; email content and attachment checking, to quarantine dangerous attachments and content; an exploit shield, to protect against present and future viruses based on exploits; an HTML threats engine, to disable HTML scripts; a Trojan & Executable Scanner, to detect malicious executables; and more. Pricing starts at just US$350 for 25 mailboxes. More information and a free trial version of the product are available at http://www.gfi.com/mailsecurity/.

About SC Awards 2006
With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world’s leading awards program for the information security industry. The SC Awards program spans US, Asia, and UK. The SC Awards are composed of both the Reader Trust Technology Awards - voted on by SC readers in each region and the SC Awards Council, a group of carefully selected senior CSOs - and the Professional Awards that are judged by a panel of the industry’s top talents. 

Recognizing technical excellence and professional achievement across a variety of different categories, the SC Awards is a truly unique program developed to bring attention to the industry’s top products and highlight the professionals that have both created them and use them within their companies. These industry achievements are acknowledged during the exciting US Awards ceremony, taking place this year at the Fairmont, San Jose on February 14th, 2006.

For more information visit http://www.scmagazine.com.