Endpoint Defense against Targeted Attacks with
the Next Release of i-FILTER® and m-FILTER® Available September 19, 2017
～Stronger malware protection eliminating excessive multi-layer defense reducing education costs～

TOKYO, Japan (May 8, 2017) – Digital Arts Inc. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Toshio Dogu; “Digital Arts”; Code 2326), a leading provider of information security software, announced the release of i-FILTER Ver. 10 and m-FILTER Ver. 5 to be available on September 19, 2017. i-FILTER is a web security software to stop data loss and drive internal governance and m-FILTER is an email security software to prevent wrong email transmissions and neutralize email messages. This major release highlights substantial reinforcement in its features to realize endpoint defense against targeted attacks.

Recently, targeted attacks on enterprises and public agencies have become increasingly multi-faceted and sophisticated, where these threats break through multiple layers of security defense. Many organizations, regardless of size and vertical, suffer damages, such as loss of personal information and sensitive data. Many entities also place utmost importance in educating their employees, however with constantly new types of attacks, the cost and effort spent on training only continue to increase.

While targeted attacks is an issue facing many enterprise and public agencies, Digital Arts offers the new i-FILTER and m-FILTER, when installed together, can realize powerful protection against malware and data loss via internet and email messages, while reducing the cost to place multiple layers of corporate-wide security defense and employee education.

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98%^*1 of advanced targeted attacks are conducted through email messages. m-FILTER Ver. 5 delivers “safe” messages to your inbox by isolating suspicious emails (based on sender information, attachments and website links) and neutralizing unauthorized codes embedded in attachments or HTML bodies that manipulate users to access malicious websites. Information on malicious websites in the attachments and email bodies are accumulated into the i-FILTER database to be blocked immediately.

The remaining 2%^*2 of malware are infected by employees accessing malicious websites or file transfer platforms. i-FILTER Ver. 10 revamped its web filtering database process, where by categorizing all searchable websites in existence, aims to accomplish web filtering cover ratio of nearly 100%. Darknet^*3 and Deep Web^*4, often used to hide C&ervers, are not indexable on search engines, therefore are not registered on the i-FILTER database. Users can leverage this mechanism to alert or block access to all websites that are not managed (categorized) by i-FILTER to ensure that your organization is safe from targeted attacks.

Implementing the upcoming editions of i-FILTER and m-FILTER together would substantially reduce cost and hours necessary to install multiple layers of security defense, where it is estimated at 40% cost reduction for enterprises sized at 3,000 employees, and 80% for larger enterprises with 20,000 employees.

• *1  Excerpt from IPA Threat and Countermeasures of Targeted Attacks
• *2  Malware from USB and other data storage media to be covered by corporate operation policies
• *3  Address space where a host name is not associated to the IP address
• *4  Websites that are not indexable on search engines