Avinti and Richard Fleischman & Associates Partner to Deliver Crimeware and Unknown Virus Outbreak Protection to Hedge-Fund Companies.LINDON, Utah Lindon is a city in Utah County, Utah, United States. The population was 8,363 at the 2000 census. By 2004 its population had been estimated to increase slightly to 8,489. Geography Lindon is located at (40.338552, -111. -- Avinti Inc., a leading provider of e-mail outbreak protection, and Richard Fleischman & Associates (RFA RFA right frontoanterior (position of the fetus). Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) A procedure in which radiofrequency waves are used to destroy blood vessels and tissues. Mentioned in: Prenatal Surgery ), the leading network and business continuity solutions provider to the hedge-fund community, today announced a new partnership to go beyond day-zero and deliver the highest level of "first-instance" e-mail outbreak protection for hedge-fund companies. Striving to provide leading-edge technology in an industry where highly valuable financial information must be kept secure against new and unknown threats, RFA has partnered with Avinti to provide the most complete protection available against first-instance e-mail borne threats. By employing Avinti's iSolation Server, which uses virtual machine technology to test suspicious e-mail attachments at the gateway, RFA can stop Trojan horses It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome.
Need For Highest-Level E-mail Security As a leader in IT consulting and business solutions to more than 300 hedge-fund companies, RFA works with highly confidential information Noun 1. confidential information - an indication of potential opportunity; "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job" steer, tip, wind, hint, lead that must be safeguarded at all times. Managing anywhere from $250 million to $2 billion in assets each, these hedge-fund companies demand the most sophisticated IT security for their e-mail systems so that they can make investment decisions with the most up-to-date information. In addition, these companies must make certain that sensitive financial information is kept secure to guard against hackers who would steal data and resell it on the electronic black market, as well as to comply with government regulations. "This partnership with Avinti provides our hedge-fund clients with the confidence of having uninterrupted access to their e-mail platform to make critical decisions, as well as knowing that their financial and propriety information is safe from those who would use it for specific, criminal purposes," said Richard Fleischman, president of RFA. "Using the iSolation Server will allow RFA to continue to provide its leading IT consulting and business solutions by providing a proactive defense against the rising tide Noun 1. rising tide - the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide); "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare flood tide, flood of crimeware and unknown threats." Avinti's virtual machine technology provides a proactive approach to e-mail security by observing the actual behavior of incoming attachments at the e-mail gateway in a secure representation of the desktop environment prior to end-user delivery. Virtual machine observation tests messages for demonstrated malicious behavior and prevents end-users from unintentionally opening dangerous e-mail or being tricked into opening messages using social engineering techniques. Compared to heuristics heu·ris·tic adj. 1. Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem: and signature update approaches, virtual machine technology offers organizations the only day-zero protection to stop malware at "instance one," providing a much more effective solution with drastically fewer false positives. "No organization is immune from the onslaught of e-mail attacks designed to compromise IT systems for the express purpose of making money through criminal activity," said Terry Dickson, chief executive officer at Avinti. "The iSolation Server stops the first instance of malicious e-mail, providing RFA with the most effective technology available to safeguard customer e-mail." About Avinti Inc. Avinti Inc. enables organizations to safely use e-mail as a critical communications tool without fear of malicious, costly threats for which no signature pattern exists. Using cutting-edge virtual machine technology, Avinti's iSolation Server is the first e-mail security solution to close the window of vulnerability A window of vulnerability or wov is a time frame within which defensive measures are reduced, compromised or lacking. The term is used with reference to military defences of strategic assets, and also by analogy in computer software to a software vulnerability which is open from unknown threats, testing the intended behavior of e-mail attachments to determine a message's threat potential. Founded in 2002, Avinti works with existing antivirus and e-mail security solutions in a layered security Layered security is a new term used by information protection and online security vendors that describes the practice of leveraging several different point security solutions to protect the digital identities and information of consumer, enterprise or government environments. approach that eliminates Trojan horses, spyware, malware and other unknown e-mail threats from corporate e-mail systems. For additional information, contact Avinti at 801-443-3200 or visit www.avinti.com. About RFA Established in 1990 and headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Richard Fleischman & Associates currently serves more than 300 hedge funds hedge fund, in finance, a highly speculative, largely unregulated investment device. Originating in the 1950s, the funds "hedge" by offsetting "short" positions (borrowing a security and then selling it at a higher price before repaying the lender) against "long" globally, offering both on-site and remote services year-round and around the clock. As a full-service financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. solution provider, RFA provides the latest in technology products and fast, expert service by its team of more than 75 expert IT consultants. RFA maintains a world-class data center in Westchester, N.Y., providing fully equipped office and trading desk Trading Desk A desk where transactions for buying and selling securities occur. Trading desks can be found in most organizations (banks, finance companies, etc.) involved in trading investment instruments such as equities, fixed-income securities, futures, commodities and foreign space, disaster recovery and business continuity services. For additional information, contact RFA at 212-867-4600 or visit www.rfa.com. |
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