LogicaCMG Joins Forces With Echoworx to Provide Secure Email

TORONTO, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- LogicaCMG today announces an agreement with Echoworx Corporation to offer email encryption technology as a fully managed service to European organisations who want to expand their suite of value-added security services. Currently, LogicaCMG provides the technological elements of a full information security service: delivery, hosting, management, operation and monitoring of external and internal IT defences.

Using LogicaCMG's managed services removes the problems and complexities of the client keeping up with fast moving technical security issues. LogicaCMG already serves over 100 organisations with its information security services practice. Through this agreement, existing and future LogicaCMG customers will be able to benefit from the provision of secure email as a fully managed service.

Recent research reports that the average UK business spends 4 - 5% of its IT budget on information security, a percentage that is set to increase dramatically with the continual rise in cyber crime. By choosing email encryption as a managed service from LogicaCMG and Echoworx, customers will be able to reap the substantial benefits of secure email technology without dramatic upheavals to working practices and a long implementation process.

LogicaCMG will provide and manage secure email for its European customers from its world class European data centre. This will reduce customers' operational costs and allow businesses to focus on their core business functions.

Steve Green, director in LogicaCMG's international telecoms business, said:

"We believe that email encryption is an essential addition to the services provided by our global outsourcing capability. Email security is at the forefront of our customers' minds and we can now offer a service that can be easily managed, deployed and marketed. We are pleased to be the first to offer secure email to European organisations that want to improve their IT security."

In addition to email encryption software, Echoworx, a leading provider of security software products for electronic communications, provides a Global Directory of digital identities that gives service providers a tremendous advantage. It allows them to sign up any email user and deliver a seamless communication experience with any secure email subscriber, no matter who their service provider is or where in the world they may be located.

Michael Ginsberg, President and CEO of Echoworx Cooperation, comments: "We have world class service providers offering secure email in the USA and we are very pleased to be forging ahead in Europe with LogicaCMG. Offering email encryption to LogicaCMG customers is a natural extension of its value added security suite of services. We are already working with a number of leading European carriers and ISPs who are also eager to launch secure email."

  NOTES TO EDITORS
  What is secure mail / email encryption?

Secure Mail is a white label product offered by service providers and is one of the first encrypted email subscription-based services to target the masses. When a person subscribes to Secure Mail, a small plug-in is automatically downloaded into the subscribers email software. There is no need to change email address or even be an existing subscriber of any service from the service provider. With the click of a button, subscribers can then send encrypted messages. Messages are digitally signed and encrypted automatically before leaving the sender's desk-top and can only be opened by the intended recipient. The recipient does not need to be a subscriber to the service or download any software. Unlike most encryption solutions, the Secure Mail offering is simple, using industry-trusted standards such as PKI, S/MIME and X.509 certificates. It does not require complicated certificate registration and can be used easily by non-technical consumers.

ISPs and enterprises who are interested in subscribing to Secure Mail service with LogicaCMG should contact Steve Green, steve.green@logicacmg.com.

About Echoworx

Echoworx is a provider of security solutions for enhancing privacy and trust in electronic communications. Echoworx security products are designed for Service Providers who want to offer a branded encrypted email service to businesses, consumers and enterprises. Echoworx security products are based on industry standard PKI and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, and are built on the Echoworx Security Services Platform. Echoworx Secure Mail providers include: AT&T, BellSouth, IBM Canada, North Rock Communications, Sun Microsystems, USA.NET, and Verizon.

About LogicaCMG

LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT services. It employs 30,000 people across 36 countries. LogicaCMG's focus is on enabling its customers to build and maintain leadership positions using LogicaCMG's deep industry knowledge and its track record for successful delivery. The company provides business consulting, systems integration and IT and business process outsourcing across diverse markets including telecoms, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector. Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London Stock Exchange and Euronext (Amsterdam) (LSE:LOG; Euronext:LOG). More information is available at http://www.logicacmg.com/.

  Contact:
  Isabell Horvath
  LogicaCMG
  +49 (0) 89 65112136
  Mobile: +49 (0) 171 6546152
  isabell.horvath@logicacmg.com

  Stefanie Nastou
  Echoworx
  416.226.8610
  nastou@echoworx.com

  Alysha Crouse
  5W Public Relations
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