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株式会社デジターは、１１月２８日（水）～２９日（木）の２日間、東京ミッド
タウンにて開催されるSaaS World 2007展示会にブース出展致します。

展示ブースでは、個人ユーザー単位で自由自在にフィルタリング・ルールをカス
タマイズできる強力無比なアンチスパムを含む包括的メールセキュリティサービス
「Sentinel Messaging Service」のデモを中心に、弊社顧客（米国スタンフォー
ド大学等）にて実証された、SaaS型セキュリティソルーションによるネットワー
ク・スループットの最大化と「見えないコスト」の大幅削減を実現した事例をご
紹介いたします。

是非ご来場の際は、弊社ブームにお立ち寄り下さい。

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「SaaS World 2007」情報

http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/saas/index.html（大会HP)
http://www.idg.co.jp/expo/saas/exhibitors/index.html#DIGITAR （弊社紹介欄）

主催 IDGジャパン

会 期: 2007年11月28（水）〜29日（木）
時 間: 28日（水）10:00-17:30 展示は11:50-17:30
29日（木）10:00-17:00 展示は11:50-17:00
会 場: 東京ミッドタウン・ホール
入場料: 3,000円（税込） ※Web事前登録にて上記入場料金が無料になります。
 

Technorati Tags: DigiTar, Japan, SaaS World 2007, Sentinel Messaging, Tradeshows

DigiTar is proud to announce our presence at the SaaS World 2007 exhibition at the Tokyo Midtown Hall in Tokyo, Japan on November 28th and 29th 2007. SaaS World 2007 is the premier Software-as-a-Service event in Japan, and DigiTar is pleased to be the premier security-as-a-service provider present!

DigiTar staff will be on hand in the exhibition hall to demonstrate the full complement of DigiTar services including the fully localized Sentinel Messaging  and Sentinel Complete Professional Edition.

Please drop by our booth at SaaS World 2007 to see our advanced messaging security demonstration! We'd love to see you at the show!

For more information on the SaaS World exhibition:

SaaS World 2007 (English)
DigiTar SaaS World 2007 Exhibitor Information (English)
 

Technorati Tags: DigiTar, SaaS World 2007, Japan, Tradeshows

DigiTar™ is proud to announce the release of Sentinel Kamiza™ and Sentinel Messaging™ Portal 2.8! Both provide exciting new enhancements to the Sentinel Messaging™ customer experience! Portal revision 2.8 signifies a major evolution in the way both administrative and non-administrative customers interact with Sentinel Messaging™! Foremost among the enhancements is the introduction of Sentinel Kamiza™, DigiTar's premier administrative console for Sentinel Messaging™. Sentinel Kamiza™ and Sentinel Messaging™ 2.8 are a part of the Sentinel Messaging™ Fall 2007 service release. 

Sentinel Kamiza™

Kamiza™ provides administrators comprehensive administrative control over a wide range of Sentinel Messaging™ functionality including:

• Searchable and filterable access to the Sentinel Messaging™ User Directory for every domain belonging to the organization.
• Full quarantine access via DoppelGanger™ technology. Authorized administrators can assume any user's persona and perform all Portal tasks available to the user (including releasing, whitelisting, or deleting messages).
• Uncompromised access to view and/or modify all user settings (including passwords and whitelists).
• Domain-wide access to per-user Sentinel Messaging™ statistics.

Key to Kamiza™ is its integration with the Sentinel Messaging™ Portal. No need to learn a new interface! By leveraging existing Portal interfaces and operations, Kamiza enables administrators to use the same familiar controls in administering their users that they use to manage their own personal Portal. Please contact your DigiTar account manager (sales@digitar.com) or DigiTar Support representative (support@digitar.com) for more information on accessing Kamiza™!

Sentinel Messaging™ Portal 2.8

Kamiza™ is not the only enhancement in the Sentinel Messaging™ Portal! Version 2.8 incorporates significant refinements to the Portal's end-user interface and operations. Informational displays have been enhanced to incorporate AJAX technology, thereby providing an even faster and more responsive end-user experience. Operations such as  message selection have also been improved to more closely anticipate the customer's intentions! 

Key features of Sentinel Messaging™ Portal 2.8 include:

• Major upgrade of user interface elements across the Portal, providing a fresh and consistent experience.
• A new global status pane. The pane provides centralized display for detailed confirmations and information regarding the actions customers perform.
• Collapsible informational panes now look and operate identically regardless of the information they display (i.e. "Status" pane and "View Full Headers" pane). Performance of the informational panes has also been significantly enhanced.
• Tooltips sport an exciting new appearance which enables them to display vastly more information and to more clearly associate with the elements they clarify.
• Faster and more responsive dialogs and windows!
• Many more performance and user-requested enhancements!

All features of Sentinel Messaging™ Portal 2.8 and Sentinel Kamiza™ are available today! As with all Sentinel Messaging™ service enhancements, they are currently in-production for all existing customers. No installation or configuration! Simply log in to your personal Sentinel Messaging™ Portal to immediately enjoy the new enhancements! If you are not yet a Sentinel Messaging™ customer, please contact us today (sales@digitar.com) or request a free trial here: Sentinel Messaging™ Free Trial 

 

Technorati Tags: Administration, DigiTar, Portal, Security, Sentinel Messaging, Spam, E-mail

DigiTar™ is proud to announce the introduction of intelliBLOCK™! The world's first directory harvest (DHA) blocking technology to keep spammers in the dark about your user list, while enabling notification of innocent senders who accidentally mistype an address. Along with intelliBLOCK™, DigiTar™ also introduces an industry first of empowering customers to choose the DHA blocking behavior that best suits their organization. intelliBLOCK™ is included with every Sentinel Messaging™ account and is available today for all existing customers!

Before intelliBLOCK™, customers had to live with the method of DHA blocking their e-mail security solution chose for them. Protection fell into two camps: no protection at all, or "stealth" protection. Stealth protection does indeed keep spammers from knowing which of the recipients they're targeting are valid. However, silently dropping messages to invalid recipients prevents innocent folks who mistype an e-mail address from knowing their message was not received. DigiTar™'s crack team of messaging engineers decided there was a better way...

Through a proprietary behavioral response, intelliBLOCK™ is able to inform legitimate senders when an address they've mistyped is incorrect, while preventing spammers from knowing which addresses don't exist. This type of selective response is absolutely necessary for organizations that are vitally dependent on the timely conveyance of critical e-mail. Organizations in this category range from law firms and financial institutions to government agencies...or anyone who relies on e-mail for their livelihood.

Key to the intelliBLOCK™ technology is the idea that one type of DHA protection does not fit all organizations. That is why Sentinel Messaging™ now supports 4 different types of DHA protection for our customers to choose from:

• intellBLOCK™
• Stealth
• Passthrough
• Disabled

Please contact (sales@digitar.com) your DigiTar partner or sales representative today to find out more about this exciting new technology and how Sentinel Messaging™ can help protect your organization.

General General

DigTar is proud to be exhibiting with Sun Microsystems at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2007! We will be showing off our latest services and offerings in the Sun Microsystems booth July 25th and July 26th in the exhibit hall. Our entire extensive service line is available for demonstration, including Sentinel Messaging?, Whether you're considering DigiTar? for the first time, are a current customer, or just want to talk about DigiTar's use of OpenSolaris please stop by! We'd love to talk with you.

See the pictures of DigiTar at OSCON!

Technorati Tags: OpenSolaris, OSCON 2007, Sun, Tradeshows

DigiTar™ is very pleased to support our IBM Lotus Domino customers by exhibiting this year in the Solutions Showcase at ADMIN2007! Please visit booth #130 to speak with our qualified sales representatives about your messaging security needs! Our entire extensive service line is available for demonstration, including Sentinel Messaging™, the only Ready for Domino certified e-mail security service! Whether you're considering DigiTar™ for the first time, or are a current customer, please stop by! We'd love to talk with you.

DigiTar™ will be exhibiting for the entire duration of the Solutions Showcase!

Please e-mail sales@digitar.com or call 208.343.8520 if you can't make it by the booth, and would like to schedule a face-to-face visit while at the show!

ADMIN2007 is the premier training conference for IBM Lotus Domino software.

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On July 6th, 2006 InformationWeek magazine published a detailed review (click here to read the article) of DigiTar's avant-garde use of Sun's next-generation servers and operating system technologies. In the article, Mr. Dunn of InformationWeek goes into depth on the consolidation advantages achieved by DigiTar with Sun's technologies.

Technorati Tags: CoolThreads, DigiTar, Outsource, SaaS, Security, Services, Solaris, Sun Microsystems, SunFire, T2000

Today, Sun Microsystems posted a press release (http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-06/sunflash.20060629.1.xml) acknowledging DigiTar's position as a "global leader" in advanced messaging services. The press release goes on to praise DigiTar's insatiable need for advanced technology like Sun's T2000 "CoolThreads" servers, and quotes DigTar CEO, Dale Williams, regarding the unique advantages Sun brings to DigiTar as a trusted technology partner.

Technorati Tags: CoolThreads, DigiTar, Security, Solaris, Spam, Sun, Sun Microsystems, SunFire, T2000

On May 29th, Sun posted a news item (http://sunflash.sun.com/articles/99/5/server/16450) about an analysis Director of Development Tom Rampelberg co-authored about Sun's SunFire T2000 server. We're very pleased to have Sun acknowledge Tom's work, and the R&D effort of the entire DigiTar Team. Go guys!

Technorati Tags: DigiTar, Solaris, Sun, Sun Microsystems, SunFire, T2000, CoolThreads

DigiTar is proud to announce its partnership with EchEnn Communications (www.echenn.com) of Noida, India. As the foremost distributor of Internet Technology solutions in India, EchEnn is perfectly positioned to launch DigiTar's full-line of Sentinel™ Security Services into the Indian market.



According to EchEnn, "The [DigiTar-EchEnn partnership] demonstrates EchEnn Communication's commitment to bringing the best of breed solution to their customers." As the world's fastest growing target of messaging-related security threats, India is a market DigiTar is excited to help secure. The opportunities are vast, and DigiTar is very pleased to be partnering with EchEnn Communications to address the needs of their customers.



A big welcome aboard to EchEnn Communications! We look forward to a mutually prosperous future in India!

Technorati Tags: DigiTar, EchEnn, India, Outsource, Partner, SaaS, Security, Services, Spam

We're proud to announce the immediate availability of the April 2006 release of the Sentinel Messaging? Portal! We've worked hard to add some new visual enhancements that we hope will make it even easier for you to quickly access the functionality you want. This release also removes some minor usability bugs reported by our customers.

The April 2006 release was deployed to DigiTar's production servers on April 12^th, 2006. So you can start using it right away! As always, there is no action required to take advantage of the upgrade! If you have questions at all regarding the upgrade, please do not hesitate to contact DigiTar Support.

Note: Update documentation to reflect the new interface enhancements will be available via DigiTar Support soon.

Sentinel Messaging? Portal April 2006 - New Features:

• Button Re-arrangement - The "Delete" button and "More Choices..." menu have been re-located. Instead of their old positions next to the "Release" button, they are now on the far right of the button bars at the top and bottom of the Quarantine list. This will reduce the ability for the "Delete" button to be accidentally hit, when the "Release" button was really what someone wanted to hit.
  
  
  
  


• "Whitelist" Button - We've taken the "Add to Whitelist" option from the "More Choices..." menu and given its own button called "Whitelist". You can find the "Whitelist" button next to the "Release" button. When you hit the new "Whitelist" button, the Portal will release all of the messages you've selected to your inbox and add their senders to your whitelist. You could think of it as your friendly "Release" button on steroids.
  
  
  


• "Empty Quarantine Option (a.k.a "Delete Everything" is Back)" - After a short vacation, the "Delete Everything" option is back! Like most folks back from a vacation, its better than ever. In this case, that means "Delete Everything" is now called "Empty Quarantine". It can still be found on the "More Choices..." menu, and it still deletes EVERY message in your quarantine. However, with the new name it is hopefully less confusing. We've also changed the confirmation
  message you get when you click "Empty Quarantine" to more clearly describe what's about to happen.
  
  
  


• Tooltips - Sometimes its not immediately apparent what the "Release", "Whitelist" and "Delete" buttons do, or how to use the "Search" box. In these cases, you probably don't want to whip out your manual, so we've added tooltips to these items. When you place your mouse over the various buttons on the button bar, or hover over the "Search" box, a small tooltip will pop-up with instructions on what the item you're hovering over does.
  

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Technorati Tags: DigiTar, new, Portal, Sentinel Messaging, spam, upgrade

ENGLISH | FRAN�AIS

    As a demonstration of DigiTar's commitment to our European Union customers, we are proud to announce that DigiTar has secured digitar.eu as the new face of DigiTar Europe in the European Union!


    All of DigiTar's materials in French or English are now accessible via http://www.digitar.eu. You will automatically be redirected to the appropriate language based on your computer's language setting! We will be automatically redirecting to additional European languages as those materials become available.


    In addition, all of DigiTar's European staff may now be reached by changing their e-mail address from @digitar.com to @digitar.eu (e-mail for a staff member sent to either domain will continue to work indefinitely into the future)!


    We look forward to a continued rewarding relationship with our European Union customers and partners!


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    Comme d�monstration de l'engagement de DigiTar � nos clients dans l'Union europ�enne, nous sommes fiers d'annoncer que DigiTar a obtenu digitar.eu pour le nouveau visage de DigiTar Europe dans l'Union europ�enne!


     Tous les mat�riaux de DigiTar en fran�ais ou l'anglais sont maintenant accessibles par l'interm�diaire de http://www.digitar.eu. Vous serez automatiquement r�orient� � la langue appropri�e bas�e sur votre choix du langage pour votre ordinateur ! Nous r�orienterons automatiquement aux langues europ�ennes additionnelles comme ces mat�riaux deviennent disponibles.


     En plus, tout le personnel europ�en de DigiTar peut �tre contact� maintenant en changeant leur adresse de E-mail de @digitar.com � @digitar.eu (un E-mail pour un membre de personnel envoy� � l'un ou l'autre domaine continuera � fonctionner ind�finiment en l'avenir)!


     Nous attendons avec int�r�t un rapport enrichissant continu� avec nos clients et associ�s dans l'Union europ�ennes!

Technorati Tags: DigiTar, Europe, European Union, l'Union europ�enne, Spam

Ever wonder why a whitelist entry doesn't seem to work?

Been workin' to train Sentinel Messaging™ to allow through some newsletter that looks a lot like spam?

We get questions like these occaisionally from y'all and we'd like to help you get a better picture of what's going on behind the scenes...and how best to resolve the situation.

My whitelist entry doesn't seem to work?

We get this one somewhat regularly from new users. You know how it goes....you type in the address manually or select "Add to Whitelist" from the Sentinel Messaging™ portal. The address appears on your whitelist, and voilá...e-mail from that address never gets caught again...right?

Normally that's the way it works. However, sometimes e-mail senders lie. Yeah...its amazing, but they do. Sometimes the "From" field in the e-mail isn't actually the address that the sender gives Sentinel Messaging™ when they try to deliver it. Let's take an example.

I like to get daily newsletters from C|Net. According to Outlook (and my Sentinel Messaging™ quarantine) they appear to come from news@cnet.com. The reality is that when C|Net tries to deliver the newsletter, they tell Sentinel Messaging™ that the e-mail is from bounced-oum-156575555-1705@lyris.cnet.com or some other bizarre looking e-mail address. So obviously, my whitelist entry that says news@cnet.com isn't going to match that. Naturally then, the message gets spam processed...and its a newsletter, so it looks a LOT like spam and gets quarantined.

So how can you and I get around this little deception and make the whitelist work for us? It's actually really simple. You need to add a wildcard whitelist entry. A "what" say you? A wildcard whitelist entry is a whitelist entry that matches only part of the e-mail address instead of all of it. Let's take a look at what a wildcard whitelist entry looks like.

A wildcard whitelist entry would look like this: *cnet.com

That star at the front of it is the wildcard. The entry says match any sender e-mail address that ends in cnet.com and whitelist that e-mail. Basically, you put the star where you want the whitelist entry to match every possible combination of letters in the address. So john* would whitelist every e-mail from every e-mail address that started with john...like john@news.com.

In the context of newsletters that fake part of the e-mail address, wildcard whitelist entries allow you to whitelist the sender e-mail addresses even though parts of the sender address change every time the e-mail is sent. So if you whitelist a newsletter sender and it continues to get caught...try a wildcard whitelist entry instead.

The easiest way to figure out how to make your wildcard whitelist entry is to simply whitelist the sender's domain. To do that just type *domainname.com as your whitelist entry in the Sentinel Messaging™ portal (where domainname.com is the domain of the sender you wish to whitelist).

For more information on using wildcard whitelisting check out:
How do I...Add an entire domain/company to my whitelist?

For more information on how to use whitelisting in general, please check out the video tutorial in DigiTar University.

Lot's of things are changing around DigiTar these days. Most notably, you may have noticed our new look! Besides deeper informational content on our website, our new look now extends to DigiTar Support. It's a brand-new way to better service our customers!

Here are some of the highlights of our face-lift:

* Global Heads-Up-Display - Our main page now sports a global statistical view of the message streams we are processing. It helps us keep you apprised of not only how well we're doing on your messages, but what we're seeing as spam trends across all the messages we process on a daily basis.

* DigiTar University - Ever get confused by a FAQ? We spend a lot of time making sure our FAQs and How do I...'s are as intuitive as possible. There are times though, that no matter how well you write it, a picture just says it a 1000 times better. DigiTar University enables you to watch a video on any of the common activities and questions you might have regarding your Sentinel Messaging™ service.

* Blogs - Yup. We got 'em. In fact, you're reading our corporate one right now! So you no longer have to go unanswered when you wonder "What were they thinking?!". We want to communicate with you what we're seeing and how we approach things. Strangely enough...we'd also like you to comment on it. You're really a part of the DigiTar family, and we'd like you to join in on the discussion!

This spirit of change is constant here...so continue to expect many new features and improvements to the services you've come to rely on! As things change, we'll be posting news items and notices right here. Come back often and add us to your RSS reader. If you get a chance, please browse an employee blog or two on the right.

Thank you for using DigiTar. It is truly our privilege to serve you.