Mirapoint Unveils High-Performance Next-Generation RazorGate Email Security Platform.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Higher Throughput Performance for Faster Message Scanning, Increased Disk Storage for Offloading Junk Mail See spam and junk faxes. Messages and Smaller Footprint Featured in Latest Generation of RazorGate Appliances Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today introduced its next-generation RazorGate email security platform. The new RazorGate series offers significantly improved performance and increased storage capacity in a much smaller footprint to enable enterprise organizations to keep pace with enterprise email security needs. Sporting a 40 percent increase in throughput, the new generation RazorGate platform offers an industry leading price performance ratio, processing more than nine million messages per day at a considerably lower cost than other leading email security products. "We have added even more value with the release of our fourth-generation RazorGate platform to further address the ever-changing email-borne threat environment and deliver best-in-class features to our customers," said Barry Ariko, chief executive officer for Mirapoint. "Our dramatically improved performance, increased storage and simplified installation enable customers to better scale and administer the RazorGate appliance. Those new features coupled with our unique MailHurdle and RAPID technologies make RazorGate an ideal choice for organizations that are frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: with the continued onslaught of email security threats." More Storage for On-Board Junk Mail Manager With as much as 225 gigabytes of storage on board, the new RazorGate appliances scale to support thousands of users and their quarantined junk mail. As spam continues to grow and evolve, Mirapoint's integrated Junk Mail Manager provides individual quarantine quarantine (kwŏr`əntēn), isolation of persons, animals, places, and effects that carry or are suspected of harboring communicable disease. mailboxes, keeping spam off the core mail server and out of inboxes. To reduce false positives and ensure good mail is received, users can view quarantined email and set individual controls that suit their particular needs. Increased Ease of Installation For the IT administrator, the next-generation of RazorGate appliances offer a sleek, easy-to-use Flash-based installation wizard and quick start guide, ensuring that minimal technical knowledge and time is needed to get the appliance up and running. Cutting its footprint by up to 50 percent, the small to mid-sized RazorGate is a 1U appliance and the high-end version is a 2U appliance, saving both rack space and power consumption. "Enterprises of all sizes are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a single, easy-to-use, set-it-and-forget-it device to protect their messaging networks from security threats," said David Perkins David Perkins could refer to any of the following people:
Recently named one of the top five email security vendors in the market by Radicati Group, Mirapoint's RazorGate is a complete email security appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. designed to stop multiple kinds of email-borne attacks. With consistently high spam and virus catch-rates, Mirapoint's RazorGate email security appliances offer multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters and detailed reporting. MailHurdle Edge-Blocking Technology Blocking up to 80 percent of spam and viruses at the SMTP-layer, MailHurdle technology is the industry's most powerful and resource-efficient approach to stopping spam/viruses at the network edge. Unique to RazorGate, it identifies spam senders and blocks their email at the 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. layer, stopping unwanted email traffic before it enters the network and conserving both network and processor resources. Using customizable reputation-based techniques, MailHurdle blocks known bad senders, and dynamically increases security by blocking senders as soon as they begin exhibiting bad behavior. Furthermore, by using SMTP protocol-level techniques to verify both the recipient and sender of messages, Mirapoint can verify the recipient and reject messages not addressed to real users. This defends against spammers' directory-harvest attacks, as well as bulk e-mail sent to random lists of users. RAPID Spam and Virus Protection Mirapoint's RAPID Anti-Virus and Anti-Spam are zero-hour technologies that create pattern-based signatures to stop spam and viruses minutes after they have begun to proliferate pro·lif·er·ate v. To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring. . By using a content-agnostic pattern detection capability, enterprises are protected before a traditional content-based signature is available. Using RAPID technology, Mirapoint's RazorGate appliance has demonstrated catch rate of more than 98 percent and a miniscule min·is·cule adj. Variant of minuscule. Adj. 1. miniscule - very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of rain fell" minuscule .0001 false positive rate. RazorGate can also run multiple anti-virus solutions simultaneously to offer enterprises even more protection from known and unknown viruses. "Today's spam email messages are threatening. They can contain zombies Zombies Companies that continue to operate even though they are insolvent. Also known as living dead. Notes: It's advisable to avoid investing in zombies at all costs their life expectancies are highly unpredictable. , which seize control of the user's PC or the user's 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. to serve as a spamming relay. Furthermore, phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. attacks are often initiated through a spam message -- often resulting in identity theft," said Maurene Caplan Grey, founder and principal analyst of Grey Consulting. "Sophisticated filtering engines block messages containing malicious code at the Internet level -- stopping them before reaching the outer-most edge of the company's email network." Policy Compliance and Outbound Scanning To secure outbound traffic Traffic originating in the continental United States destined for overseas or overseas traffic moving in a general direction away from the continental United States. and ensure that sensitive material is not distributed without authorization, Mirapoint's RazorGate provides flexible content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software. for inbound and outbound message traffic, as well as enforcement of corporate policies. With Mirapoint's unique wiretap wiretap n. using an electronic device to listen in on telephone lines, which is illegal unless allowed by court order based upon a showing by law enforcement of "probable cause" to believe the communications are part of criminal activities. capability that is transparent to end-users, administrators can also establish filters to delete, forward, archive or quarantine messages based on specific keywords or message attributes. Suspect messages are sent to the quarantine queue where administrators can view headers, approve messages, inspect the body of the message in a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (file format, multimedia) Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions - (MIME) A standard for multi-part, multimedia electronic mail messages and World-Wide Web hypertext documents on the Internet. MIME provides the ability to transfer non-textual data, such as graphics, audio and fax. (MIME) decoded format and download attachments when necessary. Pricing and Availability RazorGate is available in three different models for various sized organizations, the RG100, RG350 and RG500. Available now, pricing starts at $4,475. 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, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com. (C) 2006 Mirapoint, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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