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Secure Designs Signs With ZixCorp to Offer Managed Email Encryption Services to Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
Regulatory Compliance Now Easier and More Affordable for Even the Smallest Professional Offices
| Source: Secure Designs, Inc.
GREENSBORO, NC--(Marketwire - March 3, 2010) - Managed security services provider Secure
Designs, Inc. (SDI - http://www.securedesigns.com) today announced that it
has partnered with leading email encryption provider Zix Corporation
(ZixCorp ®) (NASDAQ : ZIXI ) (http://www.zixcorp.com) to offer hosted email
encryption services to its small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers.
Many business verticals are introducing more stringent secure
communications standards, in response both to mandatory IT security
regulations and to their internal needs for protection against hacking,
malware and other threats. By enhancing their outsourced net perimeter
defense plan, secure remote access and email security offerings with email
encryption, SDI simply and affordably adds a valuable new module of
protection for existing and potential professional services, healthcare,
and financial services customers.
"Our offering delivers automatic email encryption that's transparent to the
sender and, in most cases, the receiver as well," said Steven Irons,
Vice-President of Channel Sales for ZixCorp. "Our email encryption service,
combined with SDI's managed services, will ensure that even the smallest
organizations are able to comply with regulations without placing an
unnecessary cost or administrative burden on them."
"ZixCorp offers the best email encryption in the market today both for
large enterprises and for single-person offices," said Larry Cecchini,
chief operating officer at Secure Designs. "SDI has worked with them over
several years to develop and target an affordable, easily-deployed managed
services offering that is a great strategic fit for our SMB customer base.
Customers trying to deploy email encryption on their own would incur
significant startup costs. Using SDI, they are able to participate for an
affordable monthly fee. It's the next logical evolution in the growth of
our value added services."
ZixCorp provides policy-based email encryption services to organizations of
all sizes. ZixCorp's proven Email Encryption Service is used by the most
influential companies and government organizations including the FFIEC
federal banking regulators, SEC, US Treasury, Wellpoint, Humana and over 30
Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations. SDI specializes in providing
enterprise class managed security services to SMB organizations including
education, retail, professional and financial services, and manages
thousands of firewalls throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Cecchini added, "ZixCorp represents the gold standard in their field, and
we are very pleased to include their products as part of our solution."
ZixCorp will exhibit at the RSA Show, San Francisco, March 1 to March 5,
Booth #855.
About Secure Designs, Inc.
Secure Designs believes that smaller companies deserve excellent Internet
security without having to pay a premium price. SDI has developed many
proprietary technologies to remain the managed security services leader for
the SMB segment. The company manages thousands of firewalls in 28 US
states and five countries internationally, and continually introduces new
technologies to enhance its offerings. http://www.securedesigns.com.
About Zix Corporation
Zix Corporation is the leader in email encryption services. ZixCorp offers
the simplicity of Software as a Service with the convenience of
customizable encryption policies. ZixCorp provides automated key management
"in the cloud" for all its customers, resulting in a scalable, reliable,
easy-to-use and simple-to-administer service. ZixDirectory is the largest
email encryption directory in the world enabling seamless and secure
communication among communities of interest. ZixDirectory connects over 20
million members and includes over 1,200 financial institutions, the FFIEC
federal banking regulators, over 1,000 hospitals and over 30 Blue Cross
Blue Shield organizations and 20 state banking regulators. For more
information, visit http://www.zixcorp.com/.