12 Pennsylvania School Districts to Install Abaca's Email Protection Gateway.Deployments Will Cover Four Northeast Counties SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Abaca[R] Technology Corporation, an innovator in email protection and messaging security, today announced that BLaST Intermediate Unit (IU) 17, Pennsylvania's largest Intermediate Unit, plans to install the Abaca Email Protection Gateway[TM] appliance and Abaca ReceiverNet[TM] Service in 12 school districts within its organization. Public Email Addresses This article is a stub. Please add relevant information. Public email addresses are email addresses which are shared by a group such as a neighborhood, a school, or some people with a shared interest. Hammered by Spam BLaST IU 17 is an education service agency whose mission is to deliver effective, efficient and economical services to the 19 school districts and 36,000 students in its Intermediate Unit, which includes Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan and Tioga counties Tioga County is the name of two counties in the United States:
Since BLaST IU 17 is a large education service agency with a public mission, the email addresses See Internet address. of many of its departments and employees are public as well. So in the course of reaching out to students, parents, teachers, and administrators, BLaST IU 17 became an easy target for spammers. Over a five-year period, BLaST IU 17 tried several popular email filters. As time progressed, they had only marginal success in blocking spam. Some filters didn't work well at all; others worked initially but then gradually lost their effectiveness. Meanwhile, the spam kept coming. Some email users were receiving hundreds of spam messages every day, one mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). often received upwards of 500 spam messages a day! "Educational institutions are popular targets for spam because they typically have sizeable networks and plenty of publicly available email addresses," observed Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Jolicoeur, chief executive officer of Abaca Technology Corporation. "But educational institutions also have limited budgets and lots of demand for network bandwidth. They're not well equipped to deal with a flood of spam pouring in every day." Abaca's Delivers Guaranteed Results Hoping to find a more effective solution to BLaST IU 17's spam problem, Jon Paulhamus, assistant director of technology at BLaST IU 17, did a Google search Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. that led him to the Abaca Email Protection Gateway. Two things jumped out at him right away: Abaca's quarantine quarantine (kwŏr`əntēn), isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. feature for individual users and the company's guaranteed 99 percent accuracy in blocking spam. Paulhamus installed and configured the Abaca Email Protection Gateway appliance; entire process took just 10 minutes. The results of Abaca's spam-filtering accuracy were apparent that same day. "Our spam problem went away immediately," recalled Jon Paulhamus. "Within 48 hours email users stared coming up and thanking me for eliminating all the spam from their mailboxes. "Abaca's Email Protection Gateway works incredibly well," said Paulhamus. "The administrator dashboard showed that we were getting 6,000 to 15,000 spam messages an hour--in one district alone. And all of that spam is now effectively blocked by Abaca." As a busy assistant director with a large information technology organization to manage, Paulhamus also appreciates the reliability and self-sufficiency of the Abaca Email Protection Gateway. "The appliances pretty much take care of themselves - and that is good, because the less time I have to spend maintaining a product, the more effective it actually is!" And unlike other anti-spam solutions his organization tried earlier, Paulhamus noted that Abaca's Email Protection Gateway stands up over time. "Instead of losing its effectiveness after a while, it actually gets better and becomes more accurate the longer we use it. There's no way we would take it out now!" About BLaST Intermediate Unit (IU) 17 BLaST IU 17 is an education service agency that serves the Bradford, Lycoming, Sullivan and Tioga counties of Pennsylvania. Encompassing 4,000 square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. , 19 school districts and 36,000 students, the mission of BLaST IU 17 is to provide school services http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Schools_Collection_May_2007_2.JPGSchool Services are a business unit of the National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa). They provide curriculum and advisory services to support New Zealand schools. that are effective, efficient and economical, and to continually expand its educational and business management services to meet the changing needs of its schools. For more information, please visit www.iu17.org. About Abaca Technology Corporation Abaca Technology Corporation is an innovator in email protection and messaging security. Abaca's patent-pending technology, ReceiverNet[TM], offers an advanced approach in the fight against spam--providing unprecedented levels of accuracy and guaranteeing 99 percent spam filtration. Abaca has created a portfolio of innovative products and services based upon this core technology, thereby assuring users unparalleled messaging protection from spam, as well as viruses and phishing attacks. Abaca is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about Abaca, please visit www.abaca.com. Abaca([R]), Email Protection Gateway[TM], Abaca([R]) Email Protection Gateway[TM], ReceiverNet[TM], and the Abaca logos are trademarks of Abaca Technology Corporation and may be registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other jurisdictions. Other trademarks shown are the property of their respective owners. |
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