Mirapoint RazorGate Email Security Appliances Ranked 2nd in Market Share in Europe by the Radicati Group.

Mirapoint's RazorGate Email Security Appliance Builds Momentum With Leading Enterprises and Service Providers Throughout Europe

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced that the company's RazorGate Email Security Appliance has been ranked #2 market share according to The Radicati Group's "European Email Security Market 2006-2010" report. The email security appliance in the European market is expected to show high level of growth over the next few years, as organizations realize the benefits of an easily deployable security appliance solution.

"The growth of the email security appliance market in Europe is expected to be driven by new businesses," said Sara Radicati, president, Radicati Group. "Mirapoint's appliance approach to messaging addresses many needs of the European market where existing businesses are demanding layered protection to add to their existing email security software. The email security appliance installed base is expected to grow at an average rate of 37% over the next four years. By 2010, the email security appliance installed base is expected to be around 112 million."

"We are extremely pleased with the European market's response to our secure messaging appliances," said Barry Ariko, CEO, Mirapoint. "Enterprises in the European market are increasingly looking for an easy to use appliance like Mirapoint's RazorGate family to protect their messaging networks. With RazorGate's multi-layered security, businesses are ensured that their networks are protected from hackers, spam, viruses and other attacks."

Mirapoint has gained tremendous market penetration in Europe with the company's enterprise-grade messaging security solution. Enterprises including NHS, STMicro, BT, Aegis, London Burough of Hillingdon, PSINet Europe have deployed Mirapoint's messaging appliances, which have proven to be most secure choice for their corporate messaging.

"As a global Service Provider our customers demand business-class services," said Clive Quantrill, general manager of BT Business Value Added Services. "We knew in order to get the performance, reliability and features we needed to meet our requirements, we had to go with an appliance-based solution. After our testing, we found Mirapoint's RazorGate appliances could meet our requirements and effectively balance high catch-rates with virtually zero false positives. Managing our networks can be challenging with the constantly evolving threats facing inbound and outbound traffic, so it is important we have a partner like Mirapoint who truly understands the message network."

RazorGate - Unparalleled Multi-Layered Protection

With the increasing security concerns of today, it is necessary to protect message networks from both internal and external threats such as viruses, spam and hacker attacks, while meeting the organization's legal, liability, and business continuity needs. Mirapoint's RazorGate email security appliance delivers unparalleled multi-layered protection from spam, virus and hacker attacks. It provides real-time updates to reduce the window of vulnerability resulting in airtight security at the edge of the network. The appliance form factor makes it easy to deploy with minimal ongoing administration.

The RazorGate's multi-layered security starts with MailHurdle connection management technology, which drops up to 80 percent of spam at the edge before network bandwidth, storage, processor and administration resources are spent. When combined with RAPID Anti-Spam overall catch-rates upwards of 98 percent are achieved. RAPID is able to detect spam outbreaks in any language or message format, including image spam, as they emerge providing up-to-the-minute protection.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.