Enhancement of i-FILTER and m-FILTER and Integration with Third-Party Products

「“m-FILTER” contributed to winning contracts as adoption progressed through combinations of measures against PPAP, inbound protection against spoofed emails impersonating executives and business partners, and migration of email environments to the cloud.」

「i-FILTER steadily captured demand for cloud-based web access security and strengthened its competitiveness as a product that combines visibility into generative AI usage with safe operational management through features such as AI Chat Filter, maintaining solid performance. m-FILTER continued to achieve strong growth by capturing demand for protection against attack emails using spoofed display names or senders and threats exploiting attachments and URLs, while strengthening proposals combining it with f-FILTER and Anti-Virus & Sandbox.」

「“m-FILTER” continued to achieve strong growth by addressing demand for protection against phishing emails involving spoofed display names or senders, as well as threats exploiting attachments and URLs, and by strengthening proposals combining it with “f-FILTER” and “Anti-Virus & Sandbox.”」

「In the enterprise market, i-FILTER@Cloud achieved strong growth by accurately addressing demand for web access security for devices taken outside the company, including secure web gateways and CASB. … For m-FILTER, in addition to addressing a broad range of security needs for email transmission and receipt, the company steadily captured rising demand for cloud-based email security as the number of companies using Microsoft 365 increased, maintaining strong growth. f-FILTER also achieved substantial year-on-year growth by addressing companies’ need to protect against PPAP through integration with m-FILTER.」

「In the enterprise market, the company has continued to grow steadily by deploying a product strategy covering both cloud and on-premises environments, capturing demand for cloud security measures for web and email, ongoing on-premises security measures, and migration to the company’s on-premises products following the discontinuation of other vendors’ on-premises products. This was complemented by strong cross-selling and upselling of new and optional products that add value to the flagship products.」

「The company captured demand for migration to cloud security and switching to its products following the end of support for other vendors’ security products, promoting i-FILTER and its optional Anti-Virus & Sandbox product, which led to a substantial increase in new project acquisition. In addition, comprehensive functionality addressing needs such as protection against ransomware attacks and cloud-based email security amid the spread of cloud email services was well received, and new project acquisition for the cloud version of m-FILTER remained solid.」

「To address total security needs, the company began providing a new edition of the pop-up email misdelivery prevention product m-FILTER MailAdviser in July 2023, the IDaaS product StartIn, which provides secure cloud-service authentication and ID management, in September 2023, and the DLP and file-transfer service f-FILTER, which prevents external leakage of sensitive information through secure file transfers, in November 2023.」

「In the enterprise market, the company proposed i-FILTER and the optional Anti-Virus & Sandbox product, together with the new CASB feature, to address demand for migration from perimeter-based security models and switching from other vendors’ products, resulting in steady progress in acquiring new projects. In addition, comprehensive security functions addressing needs including protection against targeted attacks such as ransomware, PPAP protection, and email security in cloud environments were well received, and new project acquisition for m-FILTER continued at a strong pace.」

「Amid these conditions, to address growing total security needs, the Group focused on deploying its proprietary next-generation SWG by integrating and enhancing the functionality of its core products, “i-FILTER,” “m-FILTER” and “FinalCode,” adding various security solutions, and adding new functionality such as CASB capabilities to “i-FILTER@Cloud.” In addition, from August 2023, the Group made its “AI Chat Filter” function standard on “i-FILTER” and “i-FILTER@Cloud,” enabling users to control and visualize usage of “generative AI,” which has attracted attention for automatically generating text and other content that conventional AI found difficult to create, so that it can be used more safely. The function has been well received.」

「Amid these conditions, to address growing total security needs, the Group focused on deploying its proprietary next-generation SWG by integrating and enhancing the functionality of its core products, “i-FILTER,” “m-FILTER” and “FinalCode,” adding various security solutions, and adding new functionality such as CASB capabilities to i-FILTER@Cloud. CASB capabilities enable the visualization and control of cloud service usage.」

「In addition to its existing “whitelist operations,” the company began providing the new Anti-Virus & Sandbox option, which enables the secure downloading and receipt of files from safe websites and emails, improves security and convenience through real-time malware detection and centralized log management, and steadily expanded orders.」

「To prevent threats from phishing sites, the company has pursued customer needs and implemented various measures to enhance product value as it moves toward becoming a comprehensive security vendor. These measures include adding the Credential Protection feature to i-FILTER@Cloud, which uses the company’s proprietary technology to allow credentials to be sent only to URLs confirmed to be safe and blocks credential transmission to websites whose safety could not be confirmed.」

「In the corporate market, the Group won new projects by adding new functionality, including antivirus and sandbox functions, to “i-FILTER” and “m-FILTER” in response to total security needs, creating new opportunities, and implementing a targeted sales expansion strategy through closer cooperation with distributors. In addition, the functionality addressing PPAP and targeted attacks such as Emotet was well received, enabling the Group to expand sales of “m-FILTER” steadily.」

「In the enterprise market, the company acquired new projects by adding new features, including antivirus and sandbox functions, to i-FILTER and m-FILTER to address total security needs, and by executing a sales expansion strategy with clearly defined targets through stronger cooperation with distributors.」

「The addition of features addressing PPAP—the exchange of files by sending password-protected ZIP files by email and sending the password separately—and targeted attacks such as Emotet enabled the company to expand sales of m-FILTER steadily.」

「In the enterprise market, orders increased for cloud-service products for i-FILTER and m-FILTER as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, reflecting the need to reduce operational management workloads and costs.」

「In the enterprise market, orders for cloud services for i-FILTER and m-FILTER increased as the COVID-19 pandemic spread, reflecting the need to reduce operational management workloads and costs.」

「The Group advocates “whitelist operations,” protecting customers from unknown threats and attacks through a database covering all searchable URLs in Japan and email information identified as originating from safe senders. The Group is working to expand sales of its flagship products, i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5, which combine protection against internal information leakage with proprietary protection against external attacks, and FinalCode, which enables encryption and tracking of electronic data.」

「In the enterprise market, active sales activities for i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5 raised awareness of the effectiveness of both products, leading to progress in acquiring new projects.」

「In the enterprise market, active sales activities for i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5 raised awareness of the effectiveness of both products, leading to progress in acquiring new projects.」

「In the enterprise market, active sales promotion of the high-end i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5 increased awareness of the functionality of both products, leading to progress in acquiring new projects.」

「The company also began providing Chat@Cloud, a business tool that enables online meetings through video chat in addition to text chat, releasing a new product with potential for increased use as telework, including working from home, rapidly spread during the COVID-19 pandemic.」

「Sales of FinalCode Ver.6, released in the first quarter under review, also expanded steadily. Meanwhile, acquisition of new projects progressed to a certain extent for i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5, which provide advanced protection against targeted attacks.」

「In addition, the company began providing FinalCode Ver.6 in June 2019. Ver.6 introduced an automatic file-encryption feature that had been highly requested by existing users and prospective customers, creating an environment in which no “raw data” exists. The company also made internal viewing users free of charge and introduced volume discounts based on the number of licenses purchased, enabling more users to operate FinalCode more easily and use it with stronger protection.」

「For "FinalCode," the addition of the long-requested "Browser View" feature revitalised opportunities that had temporarily stalled, and the Company won its largest-ever opportunity in the third quarter under review.」

「Against the backdrop of the rapid shift of web services and email environments to the cloud, the company launched cloud services for i-FILTER and m-FILTER in May 2018. Even in cloud environments, the company will continue to provide an environment in which users can browse the web securely and open emails without hesitation. In addition, the company added to FinalCode the Browser View feature, which had been highly requested by existing users and prospective customers.」

「Building on the Group’s strengths in domestic, in-house development, the company promoted the planning and development of solutions addressing external threats, including targeted attacks, in addition to protection against information leakage from within companies and organizations, its core business since founding. It released i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5 in September 2017.」

「The company promoted the planning and development of solutions addressing external threats, including targeted attacks, and released i-FILTER Ver.10 and m-FILTER Ver.5 in September 2017.」

「In the enterprise market, sales of the flagship products i-FILTER and m-FILTER continued to perform well, reflecting the steady acquisition of projects carried over from the previous consolidated fiscal year and projects from customers facing urgent security needs. In addition, acquisition of projects for the strategic product FinalCode progressed, mainly among projects involving trial introductions and small-scale initial deployments.」

「In the enterprise market, sales of the flagship products i-FILTER and m-FILTER continued to perform well, while sales of FinalCode grew significantly.」

「Amid a proliferation of major incidents involving the leakage of customer information, the advanced, company-wide file security enabled by "FinalCode" Ver.5, released in the previous fiscal year, met the needs of companies handling large volumes of customer information, and sales grew. In addition, adoption of the "FinalCode Local Government Edition," designed to meet the requirements of public bodies including prefectural governments, city offices, towns and village offices, progressed steadily, driving sales growth.」

「In addition, adoption of the "FinalCode Local Government Edition," designed to meet the requirements of public bodies including prefectural governments, city offices, towns and village offices, progressed steadily, driving sales growth.」

「Amid a proliferation of major incidents involving the leakage of customer information, the advanced, company-wide file security enabled by FinalCode Ver.5, released in the previous fiscal year, met the needs of companies handling large volumes of customer information, and sales grew steadily.」

「The Company pursued sales activities for its core products, "i-FILTER" and "m-FILTER," and its strategic product, "FinalCode."」