WebLOQ offers an end run around typical messaging security threats

Product Test and Buyer's Guide This newsletter is sponsored by Blue Coat Get the latest on Web Acceleration Tools Discover how to significantly improve document delivery times for users that are physically away from your centralized data center. A document that takes 80 minutes to deliver to a user across the globe could be delivered in three minutes with Web acceleration. Learn how your IT organization can benefit from this technology. Listen to this Webcast now. Product Test and Buyer's Guide, 10/18/07 By Christine Burns Securing the whole of the Internet is a pretty tall order, indeed. But a messaging security start-up called WebLOQ (pronounced “lock”), is hoping to chip away at that end one virtual business community at a time. Pegged this week as one of the top security companies to watch by Network World security beat reporters Ellen Messmer and Cara Garretson, the Monterey, Calif.-based privately held company offers what it calls “a spam-free, cost-effective privacy solution for e-mail correspondence over the public Internet.” Specifically, WebLOQ’s private communications service establishes Virtual Private Communities (VPC) whose members can send and receive encrypted e-mail, documents and other exchanges safely and without spam and phishing hassles. End users download software compatible with popular e-mail clients, and the underlying service sets up a private domain name for each user and gives them a related e-mail address reserved for private communications with other WebLOQ users. Case Studies, Market Trends, Peer Discussions Network World's newly enhanced WAN Traffic Optimization Buyer's Guide has everything you need to stay current, research new technology, compare products and implement solutions - all in one convenient location. Visit now for case studies, how-to's, best practices, buying tips, peer discussions and more. Click here to go to the Buyer's Guide now. Messmer and Garretson contend WebLOQ is worth watching because instead of trying to protect communications at the edges of corporate networks, WebLOQ secures the transit channel itself. By having encrypted communications only with other members of a community, users are freed from spam, viruses, phishing, and other e-mail Internet threats. The downside to this approach is that all parties wanting to correspond securely must be using the service. And seeing as the service was just launched in September and the company only boasts one large customer at the moment, its scalability remains an element to be proven. In spite of its unorthodox approach, WebLOQ has positioned itself in the mainstream of the messaging security market by listing itself in the Network World Messaging Security Buyer’s Guide. Tap into this guide to get a good comparison between WebLOQ and more than three dozen other messaging security gateway products currently on the market.

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