MailFrontier Expands Product Offering with General Availability of MailFrontier Appliance
MailFrontier Delivers More Deployment Options for Award-Winning Technology

PALO ALTO, Calif., August 23, 2004 – – MailFrontier™, a pioneer in email security and leading provider of anti-spam solutions, today announced the general availability of MailFrontier Appliance™.  Expanding the deployment options of MailFrontier’s anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing, and policy management technologies, customers now have more choice in how they deploy a full-scale enterprise email security solution. MailFrontier Appliance delivers the industry’s leading email security solution in an optimized, turn-key deployable format.

“There is growing market demand for email hygiene vendors to offer customers multiple deployment options,” said Matt Cain, senior vice president at META Group, a leading provider of IT research, advisory services and strategic consulting.  “Increasingly, enterprise customers are looking to anti-spam vendors to offer single solutions across multiple form factors – software, appliance and hosted services – improving an organization’s ability to select a vendor of choice with the flexibility to shift solution deployment as the organization’s need change.”

Running on a hardened operating system, MailFrontier Appliances are highly secure and drastically reduce time to deployment.  MailFrontier Appliance leverages the company’s enterprise class email security technology already deployed in over 700 customer sites.  With MailFrontier Appliance, customers now can select from a complete range of purchase and deployment options including a single purchase, fixed-price appliance. 

“MailFrontier Appliance complements our existing offering for the server and desktop environments by reducing extended costs for customers who favor a single purpose, secure, rapid deployment solution,” said Anne Bonaparte, president and CEO of MailFrontier.  “MailFrontier offers not only the industry’s most complete and tightly integrated email security system available today, but with the launch of MailFrontier Appliance we give more choice to our customers.”

About MailFrontier Appliance
MailFrontier Appliance continues the MailFrontier tradition of email security innovation and effectiveness.  With MailFrontier Appliance, companies gain an integrated email security solution that blocks, detects, and eliminates:

• Spam:  Best-of-breed anti-spam capability that blocks 98 percent of spam at the perimeter before it gets into the corporate network
• Virus:  Hybrid, real-time protection from virus outbreaks through the combination of McAfee® anti-virus scanning technology and MailFrontier SMART Network™
• Phishing:  Patent-pending anti-phishing technology that uniquely identifies and quarantines phishing emails, protecting organizations from these growing email threats
• Policy Violations:  Robust, web-based interface for the rapid creation of email rules to enforce company policy and empower administrators to instantly act on emerging business needs
• Infrastructure Attacks:  Unique email pattern analysis and threat detection tools, combined with data collected through synchronization with an organization’s corporate directory, protect against directory harvest and denial of service attacks

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 700 customers, including Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Pier 1 Imports, PNM Resources, San Francisco Giants and Wyndham International. Founded in February 2002, MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For additional information, go to www.mailfrontier.com.

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