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MailFrontier Releases Anti-Spam
Gateway™, Solves a $10 Billion Problem for Enterprises
New anti-spam solution provides
the most comprehensive spam blocking available; unique “eProfile”
ensures filtering tuned to distinct mail characteristics of each corporation
Palo Alto, CA, February 17, 2003 – MailFrontier, an advanced
messaging company, announced the availability of their enterprise spam-filtering
product, MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway™ today at the DEMO conference
in Scottsdale, AZ. This powerful software stops spam at the network
perimeter using proven spam-blocking techniques and innovative new blocking
solutions.
MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway offers the most comprehensive, dynamic,
and flexible spam blocking solution on the market. In addition, MailFrontier’s
Anti-Spam Gateway is the only spam solution to offer a unique, dynamic
"eProfile," – a corporate specific communications profile,
based on distinctive email characteristics, conversation histories,
and patterns within a corporation. This powerful capability is created
and updated dynamically and delivers superior spam-filtering effectiveness
while reducing the incidence of false positives.
The constant and often overwhelming distraction of spam increased drastically
in 2002, with the number of actual spam emails quadrupling. This number
is expected to double again in 2003, with unwanted junk email potentially
accounting for up to 50% of business emails, according to Aberdeen Group.
This outrageous volume of spam translates into an annual cost of over
$10 billion for U.S. corporations in 2003, according to Ferris Research.
This cost can be largely attributed to loss of worker productivity and
to the additional IT and infrastructure resources used to process spam
email within the corporate network. Additionally, companies must now
consider the liability and employee frustration associated with offensive
emails constantly bombarding their workforce.
"Every corporate e-mail user is being buried by an avalanche of
spam that negatively affects productivity and morale and drains the
resources of IT groups," said Chris Shipley, Executive Producer
of the DEMO conference and editor of DEMOletter. "Junk mail has
become a huge problem that IT departments can no longer ignore. MailFrontier's
technology provides a comprehensive, customizable, and easy to use alternative
to ineffective filters and manual handling of junk mail."
MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway: Differentiators
MailFrontier recognizes the increasingly harmful and costly problem
of spam in the workplace, and offers a cost-effective alternative that
blocks spam at the gateway before it burdens the corporate mail infrastructure.
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MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway has the most comprehensive spam
blocking available- using proven techniques such as blacklists and
content filters as well as innovative dynamic whitelists (automatically-generated
lists of approved senders whose email always gets through) and a
collaborative global spam reporting network. First generation spam
products have shown that products offering only one blocking technique
are not effective against the increasing sophistication of spam.
MailFrontier is the first company to offer the most comprehensive
set of spam blocking techniques integrated into an Anti-Spam Gateway
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MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway creates a dynamic eProfile - a
distinct blocking profile based on the nature of a corporation’s
communication. The eProfile is constantly updated, automatically
tuning its spam blocking capabilities in order to optimize effectiveness
specifically based on the mail characteristics of the corporation. |
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MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway offers flexible deployment options,
including per-user spam management capabilities for power users
and gateway configurations for centralized IT control. |
"There are many different approaches to spam filtering, and MailFrontier's
solution is comprehensive and well-thought-out,” said David Ferris,
President and Research Director of Ferris Research. "They have
a powerful combination of effective technology, appealing user interface,
and accessibility for both IT Directors and individual employees."
“With spam volumes reaching vast proportions, and spam content
becoming more targeted and personal, it is important to understand that
one size does not fit all when it comes to anti-spam solutions,”
said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and co-founder of MailFrontier. “We have
designed MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway to be flexible enough to fit
varying customer needs, including different degrees and definitions
of spam. Our unique ‘eProfile’ capability enables companies
using Anti-Spam Gateway to get the most out of their email filtering.
MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway is a powerful tool in the fight to eliminate
junk email in the corporation.”
Pricing and Availability
Subscription pricing starts at $15 per mailbox per year. Volume discounts
are available. This pricing is all-inclusive: complete software and
upgrades; updates of all rules, filters, black and whitelists; and support.
MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway is currently available for use on Windows
and Solaris platforms.
About MailFrontier:
MailFrontier www.mailfrontier.com
is at the forefront of providing next-generation messaging security
products that make email communication more productive and secure in
the work place. High volumes of unwanted email are crippling enterprise
productivity today. MailFrontier offers innovative products to eliminate
spam, including MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway™ and MailFrontier
Matador™, utilizing the latest in junk mail blocking technologies,
suitable for enterprises and individual users.
MailFrontier software products protect users’ mailboxes proactively,
automatically learning about people and topics that are important to
them and devising a set of dynamic, personalized preferences. Leveraging
a combination of wide-ranging blacklists, intelligent content filters,
a global reporting network, and a groundbreaking sender verification
process, MailFrontier is uniquely positioned to guard mailboxes from
junk email.
NOTE: MailFrontier, the MailFrontier logo, Matador,
and eProfile are trademarks of MailFrontier Incorporated.
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