BorderWare Technologies: Get The Message-Don't Lose Your Place in the Queue!DALLAS & TORONTO -- Organizations Don't Protect Against Email Messages Lost By Server Outages Many large enterprises are risking their business by not providing adequate measures to safeguard against losing email when servers fail, is the stark warning from BorderWare Technologies. The maker of MXtreme, the market-leading email security solution, cites that message queuing, an inherent function of email security systems designed to protect against spam, viruses and other threats, is the main area at risk and says that regardless of whether round robin or load balancers are used, high-availability cannot be achieved unless the data itself can be protected against loss. If a system in a cluster should fail after it has received a message but before it has delivered it, that message will be lost forever. All SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. store-and-forward relays are subject to the same message queuing vulnerability. As mail volumes have increased, this vulnerability has grown, and the number of messages that may be in this state - received but not yet delivered - can easily climb into the thousands. A recent survey conducted by Osterman Research revealed that more than 80% of enterprises have experienced an unplanned email outage, with an average downtime of 5.7 hours. "We're all outraged when the postal service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval loses or delays mail and yet organizations just shrug their shoulders when email is lost because of a system failure," comments Peter Cox, Vice President of BorderWare Technologies. "Today's email messages carry far more business-critical information than the majority of snail mail Mail sent via a country's government-regulated postal system. (messaging) snail mail - (Or "snailmail", "smail" from "US Mail" via "USnail"; "paper mail"). Bits of dead tree sent via the postal service as opposed to electronic mail. . Delaying a vital order can cost large businesses hundreds of thousands in lost productivity, missed contractual deadlines, delayed invoices and payments, the loss of goodwill, and revenue." In the last eighteen months, email has become increasingly transactional in nature. Confirmation of purchases, exchange of financial and legal information, and time-sensitive documents are all considered normal activities over email. Missing that one critical email due to a spam false-positive, an inappropriately configured policy or a virus outbreak can be detrimental, but losing hundreds or thousands of messages because a server has crashed, can seriously affect an organization's bottom line. Enterprises are also legally liable once an email has been received by their messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent . "Email has moved way beyond being just an effective method of communicating but you wouldn't recognize its importance by the ad-hoc way that organizations treat email in their business continuity plans," continues Cox. "Most plans offer very little protection against the possible loss of email due to overloading or outright system failure. They need to implement a solution that replicates queues and intelligently synchronizes messages to a defined mirror system within a cluster. That way, if any system should fail, the mirror system will deliver its messages." About MXtreme MXtreme(R) Mail Firewall, The Benchmark for Email Security(TM), is the ideal platform to replace existing mail gateways with a Certified Secure solution. It installs at the network edge to deliver the most comprehensive perimeter security for an organization's email infrastructure. MXtreme is the only mail firewall to gain a Common Criteria (Common Criteria for Information Technology Security) An international standard process for defining security objectives and for evaluating compliance with those objectives. The Common Criteria have largely replaced the Trusted Computer Security Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the Canadian EAL EAL English as an Additional Language EAL Evaluation Assurance Level EAL Eastern Airlines EAL Emergency Action Level EAL Environmental Analysis Laboratory EAL Evidence Analysis Library (American Dietetic Association) 4+ security certification A certification issued by competent authority to indicate that a person has been investigated and is eligible for access to classified matter to the extent stated in the certification. , assuring users that their email systems are protected against spam, viruses, Denial-of-Service attacks like MyDoom, buffer overflows, directory harvesting, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyze par·a·lyze v. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. email communications. MXtreme also provides the industry's first failsafe clustering architecture for high-availability to ensure zero downtime, zero latency (1) Having no delay between the time a request is initiated and the response is given. See latency. (2) (Zero Latency) Coined by the GartnerGroup, it is the immediate exchange of information across geographical, technical and organizational boundaries so that all and zero message loss. About BorderWare Founded in 1994, BorderWare Technologies Inc. is the benchmark provider of messaging security solutions for enterprises and government. BorderWare has more than 6000 customers with systems deployed at various military, intelligence, defense, national security agencies, and corporations worldwide. The company has developed affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure, security and messaging including Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , F5 Networks, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Symantec and Kaspersky Labs. BorderWare is a private company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Dubai, Ottawa, Dallas, San Jose, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and Washington DC. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900. (c) 2004 BorderWare Technologies Inc. All Rights Reserved. BorderWare and The Benchmark for Email Security are trademarks, and MXtreme is a registered trademark of BorderWare Technologies Inc. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. |
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