CYBERsitter Enters Enterprise Anti-Spam War.Business Editors SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2003 Solid Oak Software, Inc., publishers of the award-winning web filter CYBERsitter, announced today that it has released a new enterprise level Spam elimination application. CYBERsitter SpamManager is designed to run on corporate and ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. mail servers and provide an unprecedented level of Spam and adult-oriented email protection. CYBERsitter SpamManager offers separate scoring and action methods for unsolicited adult material and "normal spam." Administrators can choose from several options including deletion, hold and notify the user, re-routing, or subject tagging for each message type. System training is accomplished with a minimum of effort on the part of the administrator. End users can retrieve held messages and optionally whitelist senders by simply replying to notifications. Administrators can also enable a "Smart Whitelisting" mode that instructs the system to monitor outgoing mail to automatically build whitelists of trusted contacts. Extensive whitelist, blacklist (1) A list of e-mail addresses of known spammers. See spam, spam filter, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, greylisting and blackholing. Contrast with white list. (2) A list of Web sites that are considered off limits or dangerous. , and scoring options are offered globally, by domain, by user, by address, or by workgroup. This allows virtually unlimited customization options to suit even the most diverse user base. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Brian Milburn, Solid Oak President and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , SpamManager can achieve a remarkable 97% efficiency with false positives of less than 1/10th of 1% after a short training period. "By utilizing our extensive experience in content identification we have been able to create a mature and full featured product that will address the needs of almost any mail server administrator," he says. CYBERsitter SpamManager does not rely on sometimes unreliable third-party databases or DNS (Domain Name System) A system for converting host names and domain names into IP addresses on the Internet or on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol. For example, when a Web site address is given to the DNS either by typing a URL in a browser or behind the lookup A data search performed within a predefined table of values (array, matrix, etc.) or within a data file. services. Rather, it relies on tried and true pattern matching 1. pattern matching - A function is defined to take arguments of a particular type, form or value. When applying the function to its actual arguments it is necessary to match the type, form or value of the actual arguments against the formal arguments in some definition. and rule technology Solid Oak has developed over the past 8 years. Pattern files are updated several times per day, automatically delivered to subscribers, and are maintained by a team of technicians, each with a minimum of five years of experience in building and maintaining content identification rules. "I believe that we bring an unprecedented level of experience, expertise, user confidence, and commitment to the Anti-Spam technology market," says Milburn. A full suite of utilities is included to offer virtually complete automation of routine maintenance tasks, scheduled reporting, as well as a full featured remote administration application that provides on/off site reporting, examination of logs, failed messages, message delivery, and configuration. CYBERsitter SpamManager is currently available for Ipswitch IMail, and IMail running the popular Declude suite of products from Computerized Horizons. Versions for Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , Postfix/Linux, and BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. will be available starting in the second quarter of 2003. Annual subscription licensing is based on volume and starts at $195.00. More information is available at: http://www.spammanager.com PRESS CONTACT: Brian Milburn, President Solid Oak Software, Inc. P.O. Box 6826 Santa Barbara, CA 93160 805-884-8201 ext. 101 E-Mail: bmilburn@solidoak.com About Solid Oak Software, Inc. Solid Oak Software, Inc. is a developer and publisher of Internet-related software. It is best known for its award-winning Internet filtering program, CYBERsitter(R), which is used in home, school and business. Technology leaders worldwide have chosen CYBERsitter as their filtering solution and it has a current user base over 2.5 million. Founded in 1990, Solid Oak Software, Inc. is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation based in Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara is a city in California, United States. It is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 92,325. . It was first known for their DOS-based security and auditing program, PC-Sentry and later for Disk Historian. The very first Internet filter titled PG-13 was released by Solid Oak Software in 1994 and was the predecessor to CYBERsitter, which was made available to the public in June of 1995. CYBERsitter was the first Internet filter distributed to the major retail stores. About Ipswitch IMail IMail is a powerful and easy to manage Microsoft Windows-based mail server that provides e-mail service See Internet e-mail service. to approximately 53 million end users worldwide. Contact: Michael Aalto - Public Relations Manager, Ipswitch, Inc. Web site: http://www.ipswitch.com Email: maalto@ipswitch.com About Computerized Horizons Computerized Horizons has developed email-related software since 1994, and began offering Anti-Spam tools in 1997. Computerized Horizons created the Declude line of products for administrators of IMail mail servers to help identify and block spam and viruses, using its own tests in addition to connecting to other programs and anti-spam services. Declude products scan over 2 billion emails each year. Contact: R. Scott Perry Web site: http://www.declude.com Email: info@declude.com |
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