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MailFrontier Introduces the First Integrated Anti-Spam, Anti-Fraud, Anti-Virus and Policy Management Suite
Diversified Threat Protection Delivered by MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0;
Distributed Solution Poised to Redefine Messaging Security

Scottsdale, Ariz. – DEMO Conference, February 16, 2004 – MailFrontier, a pioneer in messaging security, introduced today at DEMO 2004 MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway™ 3.0, the first integrated anti-spam, anti-fraud, anti-virus and policy management enterprise software suite, providing a comprehensive messaging security solution. MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 is also the only enterprise-scale solution with a distributed architecture enabling IT departments to filter email at the perimeter of the corporation, while keeping management, settings, quarantine, and all user access within the secure corporate network.

“New and emerging threats to business email communication continue to cripple enterprise productivity, increase corporate liability, and raise costs,” said Pavni Diwanji, CEO and co-founder of MailFrontier. “Our enterprise customers have asked for comprehensive and integrated threat protection from spam, fraud and viruses, as well as consistent policy management. MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 meets the needs of even the most demanding enterprise environment, offering the industry’s most complete, and tightly integrated messaging security system available today.”

MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 Platform
Building upon MailFrontier’s best-of-breed anti-spam solution, and Directory Harvest Attack and Dictionary Attack protection, MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 now offers virus and fraud protection, as well as advanced policy management capabilities. Available by the end of this quarter, key new features in MailFrontier Enterprise
Gateway 3.0 include:
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 Anti-spam – MailFrontier has upgraded its best-of-breed anti-spam engine to address evolving spammer tricks. The newest of these techniques has been dubbed “ScrabbleSpam” by MailFrontier. By keeping the first and last letters of a word in place while scrambling some of the in-between letters randomly, spammers can write messages that the human mind reads and understands but that devastate spam filters. MailFrontier has pioneered the use of Lexigraphical Distancing™ to identify and filter out “ScrabbleSpam.”
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 Anti-fraud – Fraudsters use email messages to steal highly sensitive corporate information and are exceedingly difficult to discern. MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 is the only product that identifies and quarantines fraudulent emails. In addition, the suite contains a
rich feature set that includes the ability to copy IT and security organizations on fraudulent
emails entering the enterprise and to provide proactive fraud notifications to educate users and inform IT when a new type of fraud has appeared in the world at large but perhaps not yet in their corporate enterprise.
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 Anti-virus – MailFrontier provides the only solution that couples a top-tier anti-virus engine with live user community input to instantly capture new virus outbreaks. As seen with Sobig, tremendous volumes of bounced emails can be a secondary, and often more harmful, result of viruses. MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway leverages its community-based dynamic signatures to automatically capture these bounce floods.
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 Policy management – MailFrontier provides a robust and flexible, web-based, interface for the rapid creation of email rules – whether to prevent large file attachments, copy human resources on offensive language, or any other enterprise policy requirement. Users can be auto-notified of quarantined email and given the option to view and retrieve these messages.

The MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway solution is architected to be flexible down to the user level. Filter settings, access rights, delegates, message management, and language blocking are just some of the options that can be configured to a set of defaults for the corporation and then customized for an individual or, now in version 3.0, for a group of users. An IT director can choose to offer end users, or groups of end users, particular options that empower users and eliminate help desk inquiries, while retaining administrative control at the IT level.

A critical requirement to eliminating system management, MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 seamlessly integrates with enterprise customers’ directory (LDAP) server. As users are added to the directory server, new user accounts are automatically created in MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 with the same user names and passwords, email aliases are mapped, and user and group policies are transferred.

MailFrontier is focused on restoring trust in email and eliminating email forgery through strong domain authentication. The company is extending its leadership in email protection by leveraging its reputation database, which includes more than 20 million domains, and adding support for SPF and other domain authentication methods.

“We continue to see enterprise email hygiene purchase decisions driven largely by an immediate requirement to block spam, virus-infected messages and fraudulent email,” said Matt Cain, senior vice president at META Group. “But increasingly we believe organizations will look for tightly integrated solutions that meet a broad range of email hygiene needs and create overall operational efficiencies and low ownership costs for ensuring a hygienic message system.”

MailFrontier Enterprise Gateway 3.0 provides enterprises with a comprehensive solution that protects against spam, fraud, viruses, Directory Harvest attacks, and Dictionary Attacks, and offers IT directors robust email policy management. The MailFrontier solution’s dynamic, hands-free, zero configuration makes administration, training and total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) a non-issue.

About MailFrontier
MailFrontier is a pioneer in messaging security, ensuring the continued vitality of email for business communication. Enterprises need to keep email secure and productive. MailFrontier approaches this problem with a focus on email users, becoming the first company in the industry to provide a unique user-centric approach. This comprehensive and integrated approach has now become the standard for email security offerings. MailFrontier has more than 300 enterprise customers, including Pier 1 Imports, Wyndham International and Peet’s Coffee & Tea. Founded in February 2002, MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company’s investors include New Enterprise Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Menlo Ventures. For additional information, go to www.mailfrontier.com.


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