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Financial Services Consortium Created by Presidential Directive Selects MessageOne for Emergency Notification
| Source: MessageOne
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - August 27, 2007) - MessageOne (www.messageone.com) today announced
it has been selected by the Financial Services Information Sharing and
Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) to offer the AlertFind emergency notification
service to a membership of more than 4,000 financial institutions. Since
signing on as a customer six months ago, FS-ISAC has utilized AlertFind to
communicate urgent security information to its members. Extending the
relationship will make it easier for financial services member
organizations to protect employees.
Immediate Notification of Threats
Launched in 1999 by a presidential directive to secure U.S. resources,
FS-ISAC works with the nation's largest financial services institutions and
the U.S. Treasury to be the single source of timely, accurate physical and
cyber security information. The FS-ISAC filters through and shares
information from financial services providers, commercial security firms,
federal, state and local government agencies, law enforcement and other
trusted resources to minimize the impact of any threat for its members.
When there is a threat or emergency, including natural disasters,
coordinated cyber attacks, disease outbreaks or specific acts of terrorism,
FS-ISAC uses AlertFind to help protect the critical U.S. infrastructure.
Given the urgent nature of FS-ISAC's mission, AlertFind's two-way
communications capability is critical for saving lives and protecting
assets in an emergency. AlertFind enables customers, like the FS-ISAC, to
instantly contact thousands of employees or members to deliver important
messages using individual's preferred method of communication (e.g., cell
phone, email, home phone, etc.). The system, which can tell the difference
between a real person and voicemail, is able to deliver a spoken electronic
or recorded message and even ask questions such as, "Are you okay?"
The Importance of a Platform for Communications
"Since financial service organizations can be a target for a variety of
different cyber and physical threats, the ability to share information
immediately through an automated, two-way system will empower our members
with the facts they need to help keep U.S. infrastructure safe," said Bill
Nelson, president and CEO for FS-ISAC. "Specific cyber threats from
overseas, organized crime units, intense weather conditions that have
crippled cities and regional power outages are just a few recent events
that can have a real impact on our members. AlertFind enables us to easily
communicate whenever one or all of our members might be affected by a
threat or emergency."
"As a MessageOne customer, we know first hand how valuable this tool is for
financial services organizations," said Blaise D'Ambrosio, vice president
of Business Continuity for T. Rowe Price Group Inc. "Emergency notification
helps financial services organizations drastically improve their ability to
react to any crisis or emergency situation. First, it immediately connects
management to employees to provide safety information. Once we know the
status of our employees, we can begin implementing a recovery plan.
Ensuring safety and protecting the vitality of our business is a powerful
combination."
About AlertFind
With more than one million users, AlertFind is a powerful crisis management
and communication solution used by more than 1,000 customers around the
globe. MessageOne's AlertFind has kept companies, communities and
universities operating and enabled them to ensure the safety of their
employees during and after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the July 2005
bombings of London's public transit system, the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami
and the 2003 Northeast power outage. AlertFind customers include the
American Red Cross, Motorola, Allianz, Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, and
Middlebury College.
About MessageOne
Headquartered in Austin, Texas and founded by Adam Dell, MessageOne is the
leading provider of managed services for email management, archiving and
business continuity. For enterprise email and wireless messaging systems,
the company's Email Management Services (EMS) provides comprehensive email
archiving, storage management and e-Discovery with the total continuity,
recovery, and security protection only available from a managed service. In
addition, MessageOne's AlertFind provides guaranteed emergency notification
and escalation to help companies protect their employees during any crisis
or disaster. Millions of users around the world depend on MessageOne for
its award-winning managed services.
For more information, please visit (www.messageone.com).
About FS-ISAC
Launched in 1999, FS-ISAC was established by the financial services sector
in response to 1998's Presidential Directive 63. That directive -- later
updated by 2003's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 -- mandated
that the public and private sectors share information about physical and
cyber security threats and vulnerabilities to help protect the U.S.
critical infrastructure.
Constantly gathering reliable and timely information from financial
services providers, commercial security firms, federal, state and local
government agencies, law enforcement and other trusted resources, the
FS-ISAC is now uniquely positioned to quickly disseminate physical and
cyber threat alerts and other critical information to your organization.
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