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MailFrontier Announces Enterprise Email Security Without Compromise
MailFrontier Gateway 4.0 Offers Best Protection, Effortless Control and High Performance

SAN FRANCISCO – RSA Conference, February 15, 2005 – MailFrontier™, a leader in email security, today introduced MailFrontier Gateway™ 4.0, a best-in-class email security solution for the enterprise.  Delivering protection from all email-borne threats, both external and internal, MailFrontier’s newest solution combines easy, flexible management and real-time scanning for quick and safe delivery of email.

“A top priority for today’s IT organization is reducing the complexity of and number of servers in their email infrastructure.  However, with the sophistication and proliferation of email threats, and the increasing email loads, companies are forced to add servers, increasing the complexity of their network,” said David Ferris, president of Ferris Research, a research firm specializing in messaging technology.  “Real-time scanning of email is critical because it analyzes every email for threats immediately and removes all suspicious email.  The faster a server can process the email load, the fewer machines are needed. MailFrontier appears to be addressing this need for high performance at the network perimeter.”

Best Protection
Whether it is spam, zombies, viruses, phishing or policy violations, IT managers are faced with a growing number of email threats everyday and are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain and manage the protection against these threats.

MailFrontier Gateway 4.0 includes MailFrontier Cognite™, an evidence evaluation system that ensures companies have the best protection from email threats.  New functionality includes:

  • Zombie Detection – Identifies compromised internal computers and blocks them from sending spam, phishing and virus emails
  • Virus Traffic Analysis - Analyzes a company’s email traffic, as part of MailFrontier Time Zero Virus Technology™, to identify anomalies that may indicate a virus outbreak
  • Disguised Text Identification - Uses statistics to identify text that IT administrators do not want leaving the company, even if the text has been modified
  • Policy by LDAP Groups- Leverages MailFrontier’s real-time LDAP integration to specify policies for groups, departments, business units and geographies
Effortless Control
Equally important as the protection an email security solution provides is the easy and flexible management it offers email administrators.  Enterprises need greater management control to prevent gaps in security and to reduce the costs and time required to manage the solution. 

MailFrontier Gateway 4.0 includes MailFrontier Fusion™, a breakthrough identity-based management architecture providing enterprises with effortless control over their email infrastructure.  MailFrontier Fusion includes:

  • Streamlined End-user and Group Management - Eliminates redundant system administration, allows group customization, and provides easy end-user access to their quarantined email with IT permission all through real-time LDAP integration
  • Hands-off Maintenance – Minimizes time spent on system management through auto updates of data, rule sets and product releases, and provides visibility into the state of the email infrastructure through robust reporting
  • Quick and Flexible Configuration - Simplifies first-time set-up and provides scalability and redundancy for sophisticated networks
High Performance
Enterprises need a high-performance email security solution to meet the increasing email volume and proliferation of threat types.  With MailFrontier Gateway 4.0, enterprises need fewer machines to handle this load, which means less management complexity, lower capital and operating costs, and more efficient delivery of “good” email.

MailFrontier Gateway 4.0 delivers accelerated email scanning, delivery and scalability through: 

  • Pre-emptive Scanning MTA - Optimizes message throughput by analyzing emails in real-time for threats
  • Remote Analyzer - Provides the scalability to meet any load and the flexibility to deploy in a sophisticated network

MailFrontier Gateway 4.0 provides customers with an email security solution that delivers the best protection, effortless control and high performance, without compromise.

“Email security is not a luxury, it is a necessity for defending our data and systems,” said Michael Turner, CIO of Turner New Zealand, distributor of luxury seafood and meats to fine restaurants around the world. “MailFrontier Gateway delivers it all — effective security against a variety of threats, easy management for my team and optimal performance for our network.”“MailFrontier offered me a solution that delivered on every front,” said Kristi Reese, IT system administrator for HealthEast Care System, the largest health care provider in the Twin Cities’ East Metro area.  “I didn’t have to choose between user empowerment and administrative ease. I got filtering effectiveness without sacrificing filtering accuracy.  In short, MailFrontier Gateway delivered an email security solution that met my most important criteria without compromising any of them.”

Pricing and Availability
MailFrontier Gateway 4.0, available as an appliance or server software, will ship in March 2005.  For additional pricing and system requirements contact MailFrontier at 1-866-366-7726 or via email at sales@mailfrontier.com.

About MailFrontier
MailFrontier is a leading provider of email security solutions that stop unwanted email by protecting enterprises from the growing number of dangerous and costly email threats while giving them the ability to anticipate and stop new threats as they emerge.  MailFrontier offers a comprehensive defense against all known email threats, including spam, viruses, phishing, blended threats and other attacks, such as directory harvest attacks.  The company has more than 900 customers, including HealthEast Care System, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Pier 1 Imports, PNM Resources, San Francisco Giants and Wyndham International. Founded in 2002, MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.  For additional information, go to www.mailfrontier.com.

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