CertifiedMail Deploys IntruGuard Devices IG200 to Provide DDoS Mitigation to Further Secure its Secure Messaging System.

CertifiedMail Fortifies Its Secure Messaging System with IntruGuard's IG200 In-line Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) System to Protect Its Customers from Distributed Denial of Service and Other Intrusions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- CertifiedMail, which enables organizations such as Salesforce.com, Rite-Aid, Sovereign Bank, and a large UK government agency to comply with privacy regulations as they apply to Internet communications, is deploying IntruGuard's IG200 In-line NBA systems to strengthen its data centers.

"IntruGuard's IG200 provides very high throughput with its solid-state design, giving us Zero-day DDoS protection," said CertifiedMail Executive Vice President and CTO Bob Janacek. "Its adaptive learning features that adjust protection levels automatically are great for growing business like ours. In addition, IntruGuard's product support and training organization have been very responsive."

"IntruGuard's IG200 ensures Service Level Agreement (SLA) even during DDoS attacks and helps provide secure web, secure email, SOAP web-services, DNS reverse lookup and disaster recovery site replication," said Cameron Saifi, Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at CertifiedMail. "Currently, the IG200 has successfully completed our in-house testing, and is being integrated into a new SAS70-audited data center."

CertifiedMail is a provider of secure messaging and content filter technologies. Founded in 1999, it has over 500 enterprise customers and over 1,000,000 users. CertifiedMail provides email and file transfer privacy compliance solutions for financial and healthcare privacy regulations.

IntruGuard's solutions protect traffic at the ingress point of the attack from DDoS floods, and from protocol anomaly attacks, port, network and dark address scans, and other unwarranted traffic based assaults. With deployment and secure remote management of these appliances, CertifiedMail can protect its services in real time with sub-second response times.

"CertifiedMail is a leading provider of secure email. We are proud to provide them with an additional security layer to make their operations successful," said Hemant Jain, CTO and co-founder of IntruGuard. "By adding this layer of security, CertifiedMail and its customers rest assured by reducing their worries about threats from DDoS and bandwidth attacks."

About IntruGuard's IG200/2000 Products

The IG200/2000 products stand alone in their ability to fully and accurately protect a network from a number of flood-based intrusions. With a fully built-for-purpose design, the appliances can block attacks up to full duplex gigabit rates. Unlike other appliances, the speed and accuracy of IG200/2000 is unaffected by the severity of the attack. Accuracy is ensured through a highly granular inspection of millions of traffic parameters, not the dozens in other approaches. Automatic traffic learning and dynamic updates of these parameters further improves accuracy with competing designs demanding manual intervention. Through the use of virtual identifiers (VID), unique to IntruGuard's architecture, traffic can be segmented into multiple zones to refine analysis, improve precision and minimize duplicated network elements and thereby reduce capital expense. IG200/2000's stateful design stops illegal state transitions and blocks port, network, and dark address scans which are often precursors to an expected attack. IG200/2000 can be deployed at the Internet edge or deep within the network.

About CertifiedMail

CertifiedMail, Inc. is an award-winning provider of secure messaging solutions. Its patented technology and open architecture enable organizations of all sizes to securely communicate sensitive information, meet regulatory privacy requirements, and maximize return on investment. CertifiedMail's products are deployed globally in corporate data centers and the company manages over a million user accounts through its Software-as-a-Service offering. Customers include Boston Scientific, Citrix Systems, Covenant Health, Delta Dental, Rite Aid, Sovereign Bank, Sun Life Assurance, Sutter Health and many US and foreign government agencies.

About IntruGuard Devices, Inc.

IntruGuard Devices, founded by a team of experts in networking and Internet security, is a leading provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Devices for Service Providers and Enterprise Data Centers. Using patented ASIC-based algorithms, IntruGuard analyzes traffic rates to detect and prevent Zero-Day Denial of Service attacks. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.